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[forbigd]

When I created my movie collection, I did use the idea of one movie in one folder. But as I have many movies with the same title (True Grit, etc) I decided to put the year in brackets after the movie name. And since newer, better looking versions of the same movies come out, I needed a reliable way to see what the resolution of the movie was without having to play it. So I have Movies in Folders and the Movie and the Folder are named the same.
Example: Universal Soldier [1080p] [1992] or Navigator [720p] [1924].
This worked fine for XBMC, but I like MC much better, in so many ways. Unfortunately the "get TV and movie info" wizard chokes on the extra characters. Sure I could just remove the extras, re-import, fix the few with the same names manually, and then use MC to tell me reso. But I have a lot all names this way, and i use the name to search for files for specific requests. Like, "Show me a file list of all movies in 2012" Lets just say there is other non MC reasons I would like to keep the names the way they are.
Now my question. Is there a way to make the wizard ignore certain characters? Like my brackets ?
If there is one I can switch to it using batch file renamers. Like maybe these {} bracket stuff not to scrape.
Does that make sense?

Thanks for a wonderful product.

Don

[Matt]

I think it would be better to keep only the name in the name field, but use an expression for captions like: [Name] /[[Year]/]

This way, you keep the data in the correct field for lookups, sorting, etc. but have the flexibility to do whatever you like at display time.