[carmatana]

I will try tomorrow. In the meantime another idea that may help and it is in line with XBMC naming guidelines.

My movie collection is organized one movie per folder:

--Harry Potter 1 (2001) -abcd < Folder
-----HP1.avi
--Harry Potter 2 (2003) -bcde < Folder
-----HP 2.avi

the -abcd and the -bcde after the movie folder are some tags that I use to identify the movie, i.e. it may be a movie that Rossi, my wife, wants to watch, so I put:

Harry Potter 1 (2001) -Rossi

or maybe it is a movie to look when I am in the mood for watching nothing special (Harry Potter 2 (2003) -nothingspecial)

I also use always the "Use folder names for lookups", what if:

Option 1:
IMDB scraper compares the folder name with all the AKAS and the Original Title and gets the most similar, i.e. matching only the first X characters (or the character before the year). Cons: This will depend on not having any typos in the foldername and following XBMC recommended naming. Or worse, may require a kind of fuzzy logic (or maybe with regex it is not so difficult)

Option 2:
To take the foldername with out the year an the other comments as the movie title. Cons: Easiest but will not allow to identify false positives easily as it may look as if the movie was perfectly identified, at least by reading only the title.

Not all users may be happy but can be an option that someones may like to choose and for those that no, they can use the traditional method.

Just some ideas to deal with AKAS mess, I am sure that the new file will be much better but I can bet that is not perfect (or the other way around, it may be perfect but garbage in (Akas) garbe out.

Another con of the 2 options: Again, depends on how each person has organized his movies and how he chooses to scrape it.

Thanks again.