[Feature Request] Support detecting anime on title metadata

[barraIhsan]

While the usual format of downloaded anime usually includes the anime name (either romaji or english title) in the filename itself, so e.g. Frieren - S1E01.mkv, there's however some provider that distribute anime with a weird formatting, like only episode information on the filename

S01E01-Like a Lone Sword [E2514310].mkv

or just a hard, and unusual filename such as

0Otakudesu_ToniKawa--01_720p.mp4

Do note however that those files have a title metadata inside and the format is

Wistoria-Wand.and.Sword.S01E01.1080p.Dual.Audio.WEBRip.10.bits.DD+.x265-EMBER

However, trackma doesn't extract title metadata for detection, and it would be really helpful to detect if somehow the title metadata is giving a lot more information (which usually do) than the filename

[barraIhsan]

Owh, I'm dumb.

Support for title metadata would be really helpful tho, im changing the title

[FichteFoll]

Which tracker are you currently using and which OS? The mpris tracker prefers the title currently and I think plex and jellyfin do as well. For the strictly file-based ones, suche as inotify and polling, we could probably add metadata inspection via mediafile, an external dependency.

Either way, I occasionally get the opposite situation where the file name is easier to recognize because the title has the episode name in it, so I've been meaning to make a configuration option for it but haven't gotten around to it because it requires touching all UIs, which I've been trying to avoid unless necessary (I personally just use the CLI).

[barraIhsan]

Which tracker are you currently using and which OS?

Arch, auto-detect so it should be using inotify by default

The mpris tracker prefers the title currently and I think plex and jellyfin do as well. For the strictly file-based ones, suche as inotify and polling

Owh yea, I tried with MPRIS (on mpv, using the mpv-mpris plugin) and it detected from the title. Yea, however the inotify—the one that got selected by default when you choose auto detect—is checking on the filename instead of the title metadata

we could probably add metadata inspection via mediafile, an external dependency.

did you mean mediainfo?

Either way, I occasionally get the opposite situation where the file name is easier to recognize because the title has the episode name in it, so I've been meaning to make a configuration option for it but haven't gotten around to it because it requires touching all UIs, which I've been trying to avoid unless necessary (I personally just use the CLI).

Yea, sometimes the title metadata is used as a... well title. So It'll probably contain something like E01 - Episode Name or something in similar, just like what ani-cli does. (They're using --force-media-title)

But its not always the case, just like these one

So my idea would be, check the filename first, then the title metadata second. As doing such, will gather a lot more info about the video