Can you add “unmatched” filter on the web, so I can easily see all the movies that were not matched and give me opportunity to fix that match manually. One by one. I believe this is pretty simple feature and can be useful in case of large libraries like I do have. Thanks!
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There is a plug-in that will do this now
Well, not exactly what i would like to have, as I want to see only Media Items where is no Metadata match. But thanks a lot for a good hint!
Ah, I see now…
I miss-read the original post
If you are seeing enough miss-matched items that you are wanting a way to step through them then I would suggest you look at how your folder/file naming is setup and/or if you are getting incorrect embedded metadata throwing off the scanners
If your naming structure follows the plex guidelines you should rarely get mis-match content
Well, thats just the think. I do have a library with about 20K+ movies in, there are only a few unmatched, and it’s pretty hard to find them. I do have to run queries in SQLite now days. But thats pretty time consuming and not friendly at all. Simple filter, directly in the Web UI can change that dramatically.
You could try sorting your movies by release date. Since release dates are usually pulled during the matching process… the movies that don’t have dates are probably unmatched…
Hi cgacord,
thanks for your tip, this can reduce the amount of all movies i have to check but still not ideal 
You could also use Plex2CSV.
Export the movie library with the highest detail level, then open its output in a spreadsheet application.
Sort/filter after the column MetaDB Link
every line containing N/A is unmatched
OttoKerner, thats the same i do directly in SQLite, basically… Just asking for a small and easy improvement in the future version.
The problem I’ve run into with this matching issue, is an issue I wasn’t aware of for quite a while. Most of my original Plex movies library was imported from my itunes movies library. When I first created my movies library and imported all these itunes movie files everything looked great. The metadata showed exactly as it had while part of my itunes library. The problem arose when I tried to rename different fields in the metadata and then lock them. Everytime I updated the library after that, the fields would revert to something different. I was usually trying to lock in a sorting name that would put the movies in the order I preferred. It was very frustrating. I wasted a lot of time organizing things by adjusting the sorting fields, only to have all the changes undone. I was upset that I couldn’t set any locks that would actually work on some files. What I eventually discovered was that even though my itunes movie files looked like they’d been matched, they hadn’t. Plex was just pulling up the metadata that was within the file, it wasn’t necessarily matching the movie. So I have a multitude of movies that look matched but aren’t. And this turned out to be the problem with locking the data in the sorting fields. If the movies weren’t matched, I couldn’t lock any of the fields. I spent a lot of time going through all my movies individually to find which of them weren’t matched. And after this, I found out that many of the movies that were showing me only the option to ‘fix incorrect match’ implying a match already established, were still not actually matched correctly. This shows up when I upgrade one of my itunes movies to a higher resolution movie. The new file will create a unique match to that file while retaining the itunes file as a separate different movie, showing me that Plex doesn’t see this itunes movie as the same movie that I just added that actually is the same movie. So I’m constantly coming across these itunes movies that are still unmatched or improperly matched, that I only discover by upgrading the movie. This has been the bane for me in converting my itunes library to a Plex library. There’s no quick way to tell which movies are matched. Putting in an ‘unmatched’ filter would save an incredible amount of time for many Plex users. As far as the itunes movies problem of showing an apparent match without a correct match actually occurring, I’m not sure how that problem could be solved, since all the itunes movies appear to be correctly matched whether they’re not matched at all, or are incorrectly matched.
We definitely need this “unmatched” filter. Like the OP said, it would be extremely simple to add this to a future update and it would help a lot of users.
I would also love more filters besides this, such as “no poster”, “no description”, etc. I hate it when I browse through my media and suddenly come across an item that may have been matched correctly, but has no posters. I don’t mind finding a poster manually, but it is hard to figure out which items are missing them when you have a lot of media. Finding items without descriptions is even harder, but i have only run across 2 or 3 of these items (probably didn’t have a description added for the agent I used at the time of matching).
More filters would be great, but sorting by Release Date puts all the unmatched movies right at the top of the list. It’s very simple.
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Could this be added as a feature request? I’ve searched and CNBF to find wherever the “official” request is.
For anyone ending up in this thread when googling for a solution, here’s a way to find unmatched files by searching directly in the local database. I’ve only done it on a Mac, should work as long as you have access to a terminal and sqlite3.
First, open the database using the sqlite3 tool by running this in a terminal window (e.g. open Terminal.app on a Mac):
sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Plug-in\ Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db
Second, run the following query:
SELECT title FROM metadata_items WHERE guid LIKE 'local://%';
That’s it.
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