after taking a look at the "Naming and organizing your Movie files (Naming and organizing your Movie files | Plex Support) article it is clear that it says “or” when it comes to using the IMDb or TheMovieDB hower for some reason i included both on my naming and it worked flawlessly. my question is is that “or” a most or can it be a “and/or” kind of thing ?
I’m not sure what you mean by this. how do you name something in two ways?
I’m guessing including both IMDB and TMDB numbers in filename?
I included both the IMDb and TheMovieDB in my naming scheme (file name)
yes file name, what else would it be ?
Well, pardon the hell out of me.
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What I was unclear about is that a piece of media can be titled differently at different sources. All you said is that you used IMDB and TMDB, not that you were using the ID numbers from those places. The way you worded it was like you included two different namings for the same file name. for example Edge of Tomorrow is also called Live Die Repeat. Which made me think you named a file like Edge of Tomorrow-Live Die Repeat.mkv or something. I was just confused
but honestly adding both ID numbers is not something I have ever tried. I am guessing it probably just uses the first one. Our metadata team is not around right now for me to ask them
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lol yeah but am genuinely curious, what else could it be? folder naming maybe ?
that make sense that it would use the first one, either way if you could confirm whenever you can this “or” and “and/or” thing would be appreciated. am also sorry for all the confusion as english is not my main language
i also forgot to mention that i used radarr to do the naming but i wasn’t sure if those details are allowed here
You could be using both ids to fix a match without changing the name at all. But it was pretty clear that the file naming was what you meant.
I do not use either as I name everything correctly and the few movies that are misidentified I simply use “fix match” to correct the problem.
I have never, repeat never, found it necessary to us either ID in the file name. Yes it can be done but it really is not needed.
I’ve never used Radarr so can’t say.
I just tried adding two IMDB numbers from completely different movies without any real title.
a {tt10696896) {tt9243804}.mkv and it used the second one tt9243804 to match.
Just don’t instruct other users how to use Radarr here, as they can go to their forums to do that
totally disagree, do u know how many “unmated” items i had after doing this clean up, 0.
i never said two different movies, when i said IMDb and TheMovieDB each movie has its own imdb and tmdb ids
yeah understand but it was a simple way to see which in order that it used for matching. if i used the IDs for the same movie from the two sources it I could not tell which ID it used since the result would be the same.
understood
ahh gotcha, so it uses the one in the front ?
Question: Why do you want to use both IDs?
My understanding of the new scanner:
- Plex gathers movie/show information from many sources, combines it together, and hosts it on a plex.tv system.
- When a movie is added to Plex Media Server, it queries the plex.tv host, which returns the requested metadata.
- Adding the IMDB or TMDB ID helps Plex match the correct movie. However, it still returns the metadata combined from many sources. It does not tell Plex “give me the info from imdb.com” or “give me the info from themoviedb.org.”
Look at the first paragraph of “New Plex Media Server Scanner” announcement thread: “ …to bring together multiple metadata sources such as IMDb, TheMovieDb, Rotten Tomatoes,… ”
Also, look at the XML information for a movie. You’ll see references to information from multiple sources - imdb, tmdb, tvdb, metadata-static.plex.tv, etc.
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I now have over 3600 movies and nearly 1000 tv shows and I had, recently to move my server to a new computer. (I chose just to allow Plex rescan everything rather than trying to import the previous ID) the scan did take some time but once it was complete I had only four movies and one show misidentified. One of the movies was very old (1927) and obscure in that it never had wide release and has never been sold to TV. The other movies were Japanese and so was the one TV show.
For me that shows that proper naming like “MovieName (DATE).ext” worked perfectly and is all that is needed.
NOTE: I never use anything in the file name to show things like resolution that, in spite of what a lot of people say, can sometimes mess up matching. I also never use periods within the file name as generally periods do not appear in the regular movie name.
I use FileBot to name everything using the simplest format string possible.
I do not really care what others do but correct naming is really all that is needed and I see no good reason to use the extra IDs. But it does not hurt so do what you want. I know that is what I do and I will not change unless there is a real improvement by the changes.
because i can/want and need to and if it helps plex match it easier then am all for it.
