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The Master Catalog's workbench

Identify is the dedicated bench for deciding what each file is — every ruling cements into the Master Catalog. It's one of three roads to cement: approving the Zidoo's matches during a Sync is the second, and the right-click Matching tools on nearly every screen — a rematch, a poster, a metadata edit — are the third, cementing one change at a time. Matching against TMDB is one tool on this bench; the bench is bigger.

Select filesMatchingReview
Match against TMDB
batch-identify files by name, scored by confidence
Change match
search TMDB yourself, pick the right film
Posters & backdrops
choose the art each title wears
Zidoo comparison
where the device disagrees with your cement
Approve / Reject
your ruling — the act that cements

No Zidoo required — the whole bench works before your first player arrives.

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Pick a scope, press the button

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 start, Only checked files for surgery.

Select filesMatchingReview
Still to doOnly checked filesAll files
U:\Ripped movies
The Long Walk.mkv
Predator Badlands_t03.mkv
BladeRnr-disc2.mkv
Match against TMDB (0) the count is always the truth — including files a search filter is hiding

Uncheck all clears every file — filtered or not. Check-all respects the search.

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How a match earns its confidence

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.

Select filesMatchingReview
The Long Walk.mkv
guess: “The Long Walk”, year unknown
The Long Walk (2025)96%
The Long Walk (2019)61%
Long Walk Home (1990)34%

Posters and backdrops download for every match — the art is ready before you review.

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Review: six buckets, one ruling at a time

Every match waits in its bucket until you rule. Approve cements it; Reject records that the guess was wrong; Change match re-decides it on the spot.

Select filesMatchingReview
High confidence2 Fair confidence1 Not matched1 Zidoo comparison0 User rejected0 Approved ✓1787
ApproveRejectClear reviewChange match…
The Long Walk.mkvThe Long Walk (2025) · 96%
Predator Badlands_t03.mkvPredator: Badlands (2025) · 93%
BladeRnr-disc2.mkvnot matched — you search: “blade runner”

Hover any row for the full card — posters, synopsis, ids. Rulings are yours alone.

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The same bench dresses the title — and feeds everything else

Every TMDB poster and backdrop is one click away, and your pick is cemented like a match. What you build here flows into every other tool.

ALIEN
theatrical
ALIEN
the egg
ALIEN
anniversary
Syncauto-approves every pairing that agrees with your cement
Push fixescorrects a device that disagrees with it
Create NFO fileswrites your cemented identity next to the video
Poster wallsbrowse the library the bench has built

One decision, every consumer — that's the point of a single Master Catalog.

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Cement: decided once, honored everywhere

The rules the whole app lives by.

Master Catalog
1,790 / 1,790
files cemented — the header you're aiming for
Keyed to the file, not to any device — a reset or rescan can't touch it.
Your change wins. Anything you decide is the answer, until you change it.
Nothing is automatic. Runs propose; your review cements.

New files? Still to do → Match against TMDB → review. Two minutes a week.