Z-Keeper · TMDB Matching — 1 of 6
TMDB Matching asks The Movie Database what each file is. Its answers land in the TMDB Catalog — a bucket of its own, with its own pictures — and nothing reaches your Master Catalog until you approve it. It's one of three equal roads to cement: approving matches during a Sync and the right-click Matching tools are the other two.
Run it as often as you like — a run can never overwrite a decision.
Z-Keeper · TMDB Matching — 2 of 6
The file tree is the Master Catalog's domain: the union of the video files listed by every Zidoo device you've defined — not any one device's view. Three scopes keep runs cheap: Still to do for the new arrivals, All files for a fresh look, Only checked files for surgery.
Files your ignore rules catch — trailers, samples — never appear here at all.
Z-Keeper · TMDB Matching — 3 of 6
The filename becomes a guessed title and year; TMDB returns candidates; each is scored against both. The best score decides the bucket — and honesty about weak scores is the whole point.
The answer and its pictures go into the TMDB Catalog — ready before you review.
Z-Keeper · TMDB Matching — 4 of 6
Some names give TMDB nothing to go on. Right-click the file, choose Search as…, and tell it the title and year — for an episode, the show's name, season and episode. The words are saved with the file, not typed and forgotten.
The filename stays exactly as it is — nothing on disk is renamed.
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Every answer waits in its bucket until you rule. Approve copies it into the Master Catalog; Reject records that the guess was wrong; Change match re-decides it on the spot.
Hover any row for the full card — posters, synopsis, IDs. Rulings are yours alone.
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The rules the whole app lives by — and everything downstream reads the one answer.
New files? Still to do → Match against TMDB → review. Two minutes a week.