The Movie Database Support

It seems to me that the search function could be made a little more robust if films had a separate search and display title. For example, searching for the movie "Manny and Lo" does not return any results, even though searching for "Manny & Lo" does return results. In this case, "Manny & Lo" would make sense as the display title, and "Manny and Lo" would make sense as the search title. Search queries could be automatically processed to convert " & " into " and " and then users would get results when searching for either "Manny & Lo" or "Manny and Lo". There are, of course, a variety of other films besides "Manny & Lo" which use ampersand in the title and are similarly affected by this. The program I am developing needs to perform metadata lookups for films, and as it stands, when I get no results, I have to check whether the movie title contains " and " and swap it out for " & " to perform an additional API query.

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Hi @LibreStreamer, common language synonyms and character replacements like that should be working but are not. I'll see about getting that fixed.

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