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Colon in title
posted by TerBear62STAFFMOD on February 28, 2014 at 12:23 PM
In trying to match our movie titles with those in the database, many titles include a colon. Since colons are not allowed in filenames, what should I use instead? ie Paul Blart: Mall Cop I can't use the : and just leaving a space doesn't bring up the correct information. Any help would be appreciated!
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 1, 2014 at 9:33 AM
Hi TerBear62,
Leaving our the colon in your search should work fine. It certainly does on TMDb:
http://www.themoviedb.org/search?query=Paul+Blart+Mall+Cop
If it's not in the program you're using, I would contact the developer of it to see why since it shouldn't be a problem.
Reply by TerBear62
on March 1, 2014 at 2:15 PM
Thanks for your reply Travis. I realized it was something with MediaBrowser. After much experimentation.... ie Paul Blart Mall Cop Paul Blart - Mall Cop Paul Blart.Mall Cop etc. I finally found what works, and by works I mean that I finally got the cover photo and the description, was to leave out anything beyond the ":" and add the date. By naming the file Paul Blart 2009 it came up perfectly. So I wanted to reply in case there are any other MediaBrowser users with the same frustrations and I also wanted to take the opportunity to say how much our family loves TMDb. :-)
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 2, 2014 at 10:03 AM
Thank you for the kind words!