Media Naming - Beyond the Title and Year

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.