Radarr: Wrong release year on folder renaming (media management)

Created on 5 Apr 2017 · 9Comments · Source: Radarr/Radarr

I noticed this for several movies now.

My movie file format looks like this: {Movie Title} ({Release Year})

But Radarr seems to automatically choose 2017 as the release year, even for movies that are released in 2016 according to IMDb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4972582). It looks like Radarr alwasys chooses the year of download. Example:

Split (2017) \ Split.2016.Bluray-720p.x264.DTS-SPARKS

This "bug" (?) causes wrong scraping results in Kodi and other applications. Any thoughts/work arounds?

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int3nz0r

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Same problem with the same movie. Moviedb seems to have several release dates. The weird thing is, Renamed folder has the year 2017 but renamed file has 2016. Surely not working as intended, shouldn't they at least have the same year?

Crowley007 on 6 Apr 2017

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That's because The Movie DB (our source of metadata) says that the movie is released in 2017. Not much we can do, but you could change it to correct release date on themoviedb.org

galli-leo on 5 Apr 2017

Crowley007 on 6 Apr 2017

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@Crowley007 Indeed, that's what's confusing me. I assume both file renaming and folder renaming use the same information provider?

int3nz0r on 6 Apr 2017

@Crowley007 What probably happened: TMDB only has 2017 as release date when you added the movie, so the folder was created with 2017. Then the correct date (2016) was added. And then Radarr downloaded and imported the file and thus renamed it with the now correct date, while the folder was unchanged.

galli-leo on 6 Apr 2017

Makes sense I guess, but in that case perhaps Radarr should check if the year differs and if it does rename both to match the correct date.

Crowley007 on 6 Apr 2017

@Crowley007 Once we have dynamic folder renaming in, that shouldn't be a problem anymore.

galli-leo on 6 Apr 2017

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so when will that be? Its over two years later and this problem is still happening.

jennec on 12 Sep 2019

Feel free to submit a PR to fix it.

Qstick on 12 Sep 2019

Doesn't this already exist? Turn on dynamic folders as the default and then use movie editor to set all movies to dynamic. Then I think it should just do it? The wording of these options are weird though, enabling and disabling static folders, I think.