ContentID for TMDB searches

[cortig]

While importing metadata from TMDB, it'd be great to import the ContentID as well. Right now it doesn't seem to be part of the metadata that's being imported.
Apps like Plex have a tendency to ignore the metadata and rely on the file name primarely. I can make sure to properly name the movie files, but without the content ID, I can't properly add the {tmdb-123456789} tag at the end of the movie file names…

[Mock1]

Is there a desired spot in the metadata that you want to put it? I remember there wasa. place for the iTunes content ID. I just can't remember what it was called.
And then you are saying you want that to be an option in the file naming output?

[cortig]

Hi Michael, Sorry about my delayed response, but I was away for a while and unable to check. The TMDB ID should go into “content ID”. I’m not sure why it’s not extracted and written anywhere right now. In any case, I played with iFlicks and that’s where they put it. If the ID is in content ID, I can easily set the renaming scheme:  And everything works out great. Corentin

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On Jun 4, 2025, at 14:57, Michael Mock ***@***.***> wrote: Is there a desired spot in the metadata that you want to put it? I remember there wasa. place for the iTunes content ID. I just can't remember what it was called. And then you are saying you want that to be an option in the file naming output? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#66 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABBBS2TFSF3GC6V2DC4LRPT3B46QHAVCNFSM6AAAAAB6IN4ZRGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTGMZXGE2TCNA>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[cortig]

Looking more into the issue: When I search for the video through Subler, the ID in question shows up in the Service ID field in the searches, and never gets written to the proper content ID field in the metadata where it should.

[galad87]

I guess all that's needed here is to expose the Service ID field in the Metadata preferences, and then you will be able to decide where to put it.

[cortig]

That would work perfectly!

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On Jun 12, 2025, at 00:54, Damiano Galassi ***@***.***> wrote: I guess all that's needed here is to expose the Service ID field in the Metadata preferences, and then you will be able to decide where to put it. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#66 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABBBS2RTWCL5C7MC42ECULD3DEBZ3AVCNFSM6AAAAAB6IN4ZRGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTGNBUGEYTSOI>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[galad87]

The IDs field can be mapped in the metadata prefs now since bf01292

[cortig]

I see that the release notes for 1.8.9 mention it's been added in the new release. I wanted to test it out, unfortunately, any attempt to edit the file naming field in the preferences make the app crash for me.

[galad87]

Works here, what version of macOS are you using? And post the crash log too.

[cortig]

I managed to play with 1.8.9 on an Intel Mac where it didn't crash.
I was able to map Content ID to the collected Service ID obtained through the Metadata search. The idea is still to have the proper TMDB ID in the metadata and use it for file naming, but it's running into a new issue: the Service ID has comas, and it looks like the Content ID field doesn't like it at all and replaces the value with 0.
I can see that if I enter the content ID manually using the value obtained through metadata search (e.g. 1,234,567), it doesn't work either, but if I remove the comas, then, it's fine! (and the file naming scheme works perfectly then: name (Release date) {tmdb-content ID}

[galad87]

ContentID is a iTunes Store specific tag, it's better to put it in the Comment metadata or something like that.

[cortig]

Will do! Thanks for the suggestion.
Other apps like iFlicks put it in Content ID, so it felt natural to me.

[cortig]

I must be missing something. I'm still struggling to get it to work.
In the preferneces I mapped the service ID to the comments:

in a movie, I search for metadata (which shows a Service ID field), and Subler imports everything, but the Comment field remains blank…

I have the filename preferences set to use Comments in the filenaming scheme and sure enough, the end result is blank since it doesn't look like anything was imported there:

[galad87]

It looks like it works only for TV Shows, I must have forgotten something somewhere.

[cortig]

Working great now in 1.9.0 (using Comment as an intermediary)