# \[WS\] TheMovieDB

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-themoviedb/48029
**Category:** Web Sources Scripts
**Created:** [February 28, 2020, 7:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-themoviedb/48029 "2020-02-28T07:04:12Z")
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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-themoviedb/48029/10 "2025-04-10T11:59:41Z")

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Thank you very much for your detailed instructions and template script @RobertM !

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As an alternative approach for:

> [@ny\_dave69](#):
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> I've used both Filebot and TMM but neither actually tags the video file, rather they create small text or picture files ie; nfo, xml, jpg, tbn, etc... but those files eat up a lot of NAS disk space.

you could use the specially made tool to read your already existing NFO files and write the metadata into your MKV:

> **[GitHub - AverageHoarder/mkvpropr: Python script to interactively and recursively...](https://github.com/AverageHoarder/mkvpropr)**
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> Python script to interactively and recursively batch edit mkv properties in groups based on track combinations and properties

Note: The python script **mkvpropr** is made by @Casual_Tea discussed here:

> [@MP3Tag Title not used as MKV Titles](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/mp3tag-title-not-used-as-mkv-titles/45775/11):
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> I've solved this issue in my python script [mkvpropr](https://github.com/AverageHoarder/mkvpropr) by setting the file title based on the title in matching .nfo files (that [tinyMediaManager](https://www.tinymediamanager.org/) generates for each of my movies/tv show episodes). Example movie .nfo excerpt: \<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?\> \<!--created on 2024-08-26 20:19:13 - tinyMediaManager 5.0.9--\> \<movie\> \<title\>Der Blade Runner\</title\> \<originaltitle\>Blade Runner\</originaltitle\> The mkv file title would be set to Der Blade Runner. And should tha…

This idea does not use a WSS script. It reuses your already collected, existing metadata.

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