I was over on Reddit and a had a back and forth about media naming. I have reviewed the support articles on media naming here and while informative does not quite the canonical answer that I am looking for.
In general my movies for example are name in the following format: Movie Title (Year) (Extra information).ext
The back and forth on reddit was that this was no good practice, and the following is better: Movie Title (Year) [Extra information].ext
Doing a grep search across all my titles, it appears that plex ignores anything after the (Year) function as small number of my files are named like the following: Movie Title (Year) Extra Info (Extra Information).ext
However the other reddit user claims that they seen problems with matching when using parentheses () and not square brackets. Is one style more correct? If so is there documentation this that I have been unable to locate?
Responding to myself because I’m questioning everything.
“Everybody knows” that the contents of square brackets are ignored. It’s gospel!
But …
I have a million files with absolute garbage in square brackets at the end of the filename, and the garbage doesn’t seem to be used during matching. But maybe that’s because my titles and years are all good.
So … I appreciate you asking. I’m very curious to hear authoritatively.
