When playing a 3D movie, the same 2D movie is also showing up on the continue watching section with the same progress. Is there a way to keep them both separate? The 2D/3D movies are both in a separate folder.
Forgot to mention the files also have different names but Plex still thinks it’s one. Such as “Inside Out” and “Inside Out 3D”
I’d suggest splitting them.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201018248-Merge-or-Split-Items
They are still matched to the same metadata agent. Even after you split them. After all, even if they are different files, they are the same movie.
The only cure is to match one file with Freebase and the other one with TheMovieDB. Then they have different IDs and are not connected anymore.
See ‘Fix Incorrect Match’ - ‘Search Options’
Hmm it’s not working for me. No biggie, I’ll just let it be.
I found that i had to have a seperate library for 3d movies and 2d movies
I have separate libraries for 2D and 3D, but still, the progress is shown for both versions.
@teshiburu said:
I found that i had to have a seperate library for 3d movies and 2d movies
I did mentioned I have both format in separate folders but the problem still persist. It doesn’t show you have the same progress for both formats teshiburu? Did you change any settings to make that work?
Separate folders and separate Libraries within plex.
I have separate folders and separate libraries and 2d/3d version has the same last position.
They will have the same watched status and positions if you use the same matching agent to match the files with. The only way around it as is @OttoKerner suggested, and manually select and match a file using a different agent. This gives 2 listings in your library. One for each agent.
I know this works, as I have a 3D library and a 2D library. The 3D library uses a different agent, so I don’t mark one watched when I watch the 2D version.
@MikeG6.5 said:
They will have the same watched status and positions if you use the same matching agent to match the files with. The only way around it as is @OttoKerner suggested, and manually select and match a file using a different agent. This gives 2 listings in your library. One for each agent.I know this works, as I have a 3D library and a 2D library. The 3D library uses a different agent, so I don’t mark one watched when I watch the 2D version.
I tried using two different agents (Freebase and TheMovieDB) but still the same results. Perhaps my agent is not working well, I notice the list of agents no matter what I tick to check, it resets back to no check marks once I switch tabs but Freebase/TheMovieDB remains checked. Also noticed Freebase only shows 1 or 2 posters to choose while TheMovieDB shows plenty.
@Onedropcode1 said:
I tried using two different agents (Freebase and TheMovieDB) but still the same results.
You can’t change the agent of a movie retroactively. once it has been matched with one agent, it stays on that. When you change the primary agent in the properties of a library, this affects only newly added movies.
To change the agent of an existing movie you must use the ‘Fix Incorrect Match’ procedure and select the other agent under ‘Search options’.
Perhaps my agent is not working well, I notice the list of agents no matter what I tick to check, it resets back to no check marks once I switch tabs but Freebase/TheMovieDB remains checked.
This usually happens when you have a browser extension installed which injects own code into web pages. (LastPass maybe? other suspects are noscript, adblock etc. pp.) Maybe verfiy with a different browser.
Also noticed Freebase only shows 1 or 2 posters to choose while TheMovieDB shows plenty.
You can get the best from both worlds by activating Freebase underneath TheMovieDB and vice versa. That way you get all posters in both.
@OttoKerner said:
@Onedropcode1 said:
I tried using two different agents (Freebase and TheMovieDB) but still the same results.You can’t change the agent of a movie retroactively. once it has been matched with one agent, it stays on that. When you change the primary agent in the properties of a library, this affects only newly added movies.
To change the agent of an existing movie you must use the ‘Fix Incorrect Match’ procedure and select the other agent under ‘Search options’.Perhaps my agent is not working well, I notice the list of agents no matter what I tick to check, it resets back to no check marks once I switch tabs but Freebase/TheMovieDB remains checked.
This usually happens when you have a browser extension installed which injects own code into web pages. (LastPass maybe? other suspects are noscript, adblock etc. pp.) Maybe verfiy with a different browser.
Also noticed Freebase only shows 1 or 2 posters to choose while TheMovieDB shows plenty.
You can get the best from both worlds by activating Freebase underneath TheMovieDB and vice versa. That way you get all posters in both.
I tried what you suggested using the “Fix Incorrect Match” to select other agent on your first post but problem still persist probably due to not being able to check mark the agents as shown on your screenshot. Sometimes Freebase shows no results when searching so I had to search again for it to work. I do have NoScript and Adblock on Mozilla along with Malwarebytes so that’s probably why, I’ll take a look at it later and see if that fixes it and maybe try another browser. Thanks for your help!
