Media file name doesn't read properly

[Godz Elite]

It seems that since the last Launchbox release, the Media file names aren’t reading correctly as before.

Example: the game is the following on the database

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

I have the media files as follows (clear logo, video, boxart):

BlazBlue - Cross Tag Battle

Before this last release, LB would correctly tag and link this media to the game. But now it doesn’t for some reason.

[brian]

The standard way media file matching has worked is by matching the title of the game and switching special characters to underscores and adding numbers at the end. So BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle would turn into BlazBlue_ Cross Tag Battle-01.mp4 and if you had a second video for that game it would be BlazBlue_ Cross Tag Battle-02.mp4. Whenever in doubt, it's always recommended to use our in-app tools to associate your media files, like through the Edit Game window.

We also have fallback logic where you can match it to your ROM filename. So if your ROM file is BlazBlue - Cross Tag Battle.zip, then you could have your video file named BlazBlue - Cross Tag Battle.mp4. It's a bit less performant but does the job.

We fixed a bug that was being overly aggressive, more so than its original intent (which was file name matching), which was causing media to associate with games it shouldn't have been. The side-effect of that was for people that might have been loose with their naming of their media, there was a possibility you saw a benefit of media also matching with the correct game (when it shouldn't have based on the logic).

Since then, we added a few extra loose matching steps, and a future beta will add one last step which should help with your BlazBlue situation.

However, in saying that, it is highly recommended to use our in-app tools to rename your media to our standard if you can, as it provides the best association with the best performance. The Edit Game window or the Image Pack importer are good ways to do this.