diff --git a/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py b/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py
index 92e57e7447..1666398fc9 100644
--- a/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py
+++ b/src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py
@@ -294,6 +294,19 @@ class USBMS(CLI, Device):
         self.report_progress(1.0, _('Sending metadata to device...'))
         debug_print('USBMS: finished sync_booklists')
 
+    @classmethod
+    def build_template_regexp(cls):
+        def replfunc(match):
+            if match.group(1) in ['title', 'series', 'series_index', 'isbn']:
+                return '(?P<' + match.group(1) + '>.+?)'
+            elif match.group(1) == 'authors':
+                return '(?P<author>.+?)'
+            else:
+                return '(.+?)'
+        template = cls.save_template().rpartition('/')[2]
+        print 'bftr', template
+        return re.compile(re.sub('{([^}]*)}', replfunc, template) + '([_\d]*$)')
+
     @classmethod
     def path_to_unicode(cls, path):
         if isbytestring(path):
@@ -355,22 +368,17 @@ class USBMS(CLI, Device):
         from calibre.ebooks.metadata.meta import metadata_from_formats
         from calibre.customize.ui import quick_metadata
         with quick_metadata:
-            return metadata_from_formats(fmts)
+            return metadata_from_formats(fmts, force_read_metadata=True,
+                                         pattern=cls.build_template_regexp())
 
     @classmethod
-    def book_from_path(cls, prefix, path):
+    def book_from_path(cls, prefix, lpath):
         from calibre.ebooks.metadata import MetaInformation
-
-        if cls.settings().read_metadata or cls.MUST_READ_METADATA:
-            mi = cls.metadata_from_path(cls.normalize_path(os.path.join(prefix, path)))
-        else:
-            from calibre.ebooks.metadata.meta import metadata_from_filename
-            mi = metadata_from_filename(cls.normalize_path(os.path.basename(path)),
-                re.compile(r'^(?P<title>[ \S]+?)[ _]-[ _](?P<author>[ \S]+?)_+\d+'))
+        mi = cls.metadata_from_path(cls.normalize_path(os.path.join(prefix, lpath)))
 
         if mi is None:
-            mi = MetaInformation(os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(path))[0],
+            mi = MetaInformation(os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(lpath))[0],
                     [_('Unknown')])
-        size = os.stat(cls.normalize_path(os.path.join(prefix, path))).st_size
-        book = cls.book_class(prefix, path, other=mi, size=size)
+        size = os.stat(cls.normalize_path(os.path.join(prefix, lpath))).st_size
+        book = cls.book_class(prefix, lpath, other=mi, size=size)
         return book
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.py
index f5a327a0d6..eae8171362 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/meta.py
@@ -27,16 +27,16 @@ for i, ext in enumerate(_METADATA_PRIORITIES):
 def path_to_ext(path):
     return os.path.splitext(path)[1][1:].lower()
 
-def metadata_from_formats(formats):
+def metadata_from_formats(formats, force_read_metadata=False, pattern=None):
     try:
-        return _metadata_from_formats(formats)
+        return _metadata_from_formats(formats, force_read_metadata, pattern)
     except:
-        mi = metadata_from_filename(list(iter(formats))[0])
+        mi = metadata_from_filename(list(iter(formats), pattern)[0])
         if not mi.authors:
             mi.authors = [_('Unknown')]
         return mi
 
-def _metadata_from_formats(formats):
+def _metadata_from_formats(formats, force_read_metadata=False, pattern=None):
     mi = MetaInformation(None, None)
     formats.sort(cmp=lambda x,y: cmp(METADATA_PRIORITIES[path_to_ext(x)],
                                      METADATA_PRIORITIES[path_to_ext(y)]))
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ def _metadata_from_formats(formats):
         with open(path, 'rb') as stream:
             try:
                 newmi = get_metadata(stream, stream_type=ext,
-                                     use_libprs_metadata=True)
+                                     use_libprs_metadata=True,
+                                     force_read_metadata=force_read_metadata,
+                                     pattern=pattern)
                 mi.smart_update(newmi)
             except:
                 continue
@@ -69,18 +71,21 @@ def is_recipe(filename):
     return filename.startswith('calibre') and \
         filename.rpartition('.')[0].endswith('_recipe_out')
 
-def get_metadata(stream, stream_type='lrf', use_libprs_metadata=False):
+def get_metadata(stream, stream_type='lrf', use_libprs_metadata=False,
+                 force_read_metadata=False, pattern=None):
     pos = 0
     if hasattr(stream, 'tell'):
         pos = stream.tell()
     try:
-        return _get_metadata(stream, stream_type, use_libprs_metadata)
+        return _get_metadata(stream, stream_type, use_libprs_metadata,
+                             force_read_metadata, pattern)
     finally:
         if hasattr(stream, 'seek'):
             stream.seek(pos)
 
 
-def _get_metadata(stream, stream_type, use_libprs_metadata):
+def _get_metadata(stream, stream_type, use_libprs_metadata,
+                  force_read_metadata=False, pattern=None):
     if stream_type: stream_type = stream_type.lower()
     if stream_type in ('html', 'html', 'xhtml', 'xhtm', 'xml'):
         stream_type = 'html'
@@ -100,8 +105,8 @@ def _get_metadata(stream, stream_type, use_libprs_metadata):
 
     mi = MetaInformation(None, None)
     name = os.path.basename(getattr(stream, 'name', ''))
-    base = metadata_from_filename(name)
-    if is_recipe(name) or prefs['read_file_metadata']:
+    base = metadata_from_filename(name, pat=pattern)
+    if force_read_metadata or is_recipe(name) or prefs['read_file_metadata']:
         mi = get_file_type_metadata(stream, stream_type)
     if base.title == os.path.splitext(name)[0] and base.authors is None:
         # Assume that there was no metadata in the file and the user set pattern
@@ -139,7 +144,7 @@ def metadata_from_filename(name, pat=None):
         pat = re.compile(prefs.get('filename_pattern'))
     name = name.replace('_', ' ')
     match = pat.search(name)
-    if match:
+    if match is not None:
         try:
             mi.title = match.group('title')
         except IndexError: