--- a/src/core/anime_db.cc	Tue Feb 06 16:56:32 2024 -0500
+++ b/src/core/anime_db.cc	Wed Feb 07 07:57:37 2024 -0500
@@ -123,47 +123,23 @@
 }
 
 /* 
- * This fairly basic algorithm is only in effect because
- * there are some special cases, e.g. Another and Re:ZERO, where 
- * we get the wrong match, so we have to create Advanced Techniques
- * to solve this
- *
- * This algorithm:
- *   1. searches each anime item for a match to the preferred title
- *      AND all synonyms and marks those matches with
- *        `synonym.length() - (synonym.find(needle) + needle.length());`
- *      which should never be less than zero and will be zero if, and only if
- *      the titles match exactly.
- *   2. returns the id of the match that is the lowest, which will most
- *      definitely match anything that exactly matches the title of the
- *      filename
+ * TODO: separate this from the anime DB,
+ * provide *some* sort of normalization
 */
 int Database::GetAnimeFromTitle(const std::string& title) {
 	if (title.empty())
 		return 0;
 
-	std::unordered_map<int, size_t> map;
-
-	static const auto process_title = [&map](const Anime& anime, const std::string& title, const std::string& needle) -> bool {
-		const std::string title_l = Strings::ToLower(title), needle_l = Strings::ToLower(needle);
-		size_t ret = title_l.find(needle_l);
-		if (ret == std::string::npos)
-			return false;
-
-		map[anime.GetId()] = title.length() - (ret + needle.length());
-		return true;
-	};
-
 	for (const auto& [id, anime] : items) {
-		if (process_title(anime, anime.GetUserPreferredTitle(), title))
-			continue;
+		if (anime.GetUserPreferredTitle() == title)
+			return id;
 
 		for (const auto& synonym : anime.GetTitleSynonyms())
-			if (process_title(anime, synonym, title))
-				continue;
+			if (synonym == title)
+				return id;
 	}
 
-	return get_lowest_in_map(map);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static bool GetListDataAsJSON(const Anime& anime, nlohmann::json& json) {