Boxee finds the wrong movies

[bbaldino]

I've found that for movie files I have that don't have the exact right title, Boxee will often guess the wrong movie. To fix this, I go to the file and click 'wrong movie' to select the right one. But the odd thing is that usually, given the filename I have, the correct movie is almost always the first one listed from the IMDB scrape. However, it seems that Boxee takes the results, and tries to further filter and guess the correct one (instead of trusting that IMDB's most likely result was correct). Is there a way to always use the first result IMDB returns? Here are a few filenames I saw this problem with:

"Ocean's 11.avi": Boxee associated this with "Ocean's 7-11" but the first IMDB result was "Ocean's Eleven" which was correct.
"Terminator 2.mkv": Boxee associated this with "Exterminator 2" but the first IMDB result was "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" which was correct.

This also occurs a lot with foreign films with english and foreign titles:
"Man Bites Dog.iso": Boxee associated this with "Man Bites Lovebug" but the first IMDB result was "C'est arrivé près de chez vous" which was correct.
"Audition.iso": Boxee associated this with "Audition" (understandable) but the first IMDB result was "Ôdishon" which was correct.

There were some more, but I can't remember all of them at the moment.

Any way to have the scraper just trust the highest result from IMDB? The 'Popular Titles' match seems to be correct almost every time.

[bbaldino]

Anyone else experiencing this problem? I love that Boxee will automatically look up the metadata, but this seems like an easy way to improve its accuracy and make this feature even better!

[agentlame]

check-out this thread: http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=432&highlight=generic+movie
might be of some help.

[bbaldino]

That thread basically says title your files with the exact movie name :)

While this is good to know, and something I'll keep in mind for future files, it seems unnecessary for Boxee to be searching IMDB's search results, which always seem to return the correct film, even given the inexact name. Plus there are a lot of foreign films which I'd rather not name with their foreign title (even if they show up that way, I'd at least like to have the filename be in english).

Can't it just trust IMDB?

[agentlame]

your best bet is always following imdb's titling scheme.

[bbaldino]

I see how that would make Boxee find your movie titles more easily, but do you really want to name your file something like: "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.avi"?

My point is that IMDB's search compensates very well for shortened or foreign film titles, and, in my case, had the correct movie as the first result every time. The problem is it appears that Boxee is 'searching the search results' and that results in it picking an incorrect movie. All I'm asking is for Boxee to do less work and trust IMDB's results :)

[agentlame]

I see how that would make Boxee find your movie titles more easily, but do you really want to name your file something like: "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.avi"?


i actually have that movie, and yes... that is really it's name. :)
Dr Strangelove or - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.avi
why not? most file systems support file names of 250 char.

[bbaldino]

Hey agentlame, happy new year.

So, in all honesty, I don't think you're seeing my point. Obviously if I name my movies exactly the way they are titled, Boxee will find the correct media. However, I, as a user, don't want to have to do that. Am I going to name them something ridiculous and expect Boxee to find the right movie? Of course not. However, I want to be able to name them something reasonable (not some ridiculously long title, or some title with foreign characters that I have to go look up how to type only to then have a filename titled with some obscure foreign name when everyone uses the americanized title) and Boxee should be able to recognize it. I really don't think that's an unreasonable request.

On top of this, I don't think what I'm asking is for is all that difficult. Every single title I used in my filenames returned as the first result in an IMDB search. It's Boxee that decided not to trust IMDB only to choose an incorrect movie out of the returned results.

[agentlame]

i agree 100%... just wanted to let you know how you could work around this issue, for now.

happy new year to you, too. :)