Here are some cases that I was preparing, they fit in with your questions.
(cool) Hector wrote:
kepler42 wrote:
Sometimes it is touchy, does not accept dots in lieu of spaces
I'm surprised. Are you sure ?
Definite
1/
Unable to interpret dots as spaces ( La.Dernière.Fugue vs La Dernière Fugue )
Same remark for
UNDERSCORES _ or
HYPHENS -
(cool) Hector wrote:
kepler42 wrote:
It Also NEVER find a correspondence when the spaces are removed in the video filename, etc
Of course ! The algorithm recognizes words. If you remove spaces, you get different words.
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Unable to check filename with no spaces ( LesInvitésDeMonPère vs Les Invités De Mon Père)
Your answer "OfCourse..." make me fear that you might be not extremely open to discussion
When the first "brute force" pass ( which what you call "The Algorithm" seems to be ) does not find a match, there should be a "smart second pass" where , forthis case all spaces are removed in the target name ( name from the database)
3/
Unable to collate accented letters ( La Derniere Fugue vs La Dernière Fugue )
Here again the "smart second (or third) pass" should remove all accented letters by their collate, in target too, before performing looser comparisons.
4/
Unable to match missing ' ( Brooklyns Finest vs Brooklyn's Finest )
Same remark
5/
Requires character forbidden in Filename( the colon in 3:10 to Yuma )
This is just "UnFixable" if you do not accept the idea that " El Algorithmo" could be improved some day..
6/
Inability to use (and parse) folders ( ex: Folder "Inception" containing CD1.avi and CD2.avi )
Here we are in even smarter methods, but programmatically it's cool, just recursing on the folder(s) name instead of the file name...
BUT THE IMPORTANT POINT is that , after the Preview scan there should be , a minima, a "review of the preview" interaction before launching the actual update of the owned videos.
And, finally, i want to underline again that there are many circumstances where
changing the filename to benefit from the feature is just NOT possible ! and anyway boring...
I have other suggestions ( I insist, NOT critics) ..but w'll see later..Thanks for replying so fast.
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