# Content-based file matching (Fingerprints) **URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/content-based-file-matching-fingerprints/673716 **Category:** Feature Suggestions **Tags:** library-management **Created:** [January 3, 2021, 12:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/content-based-file-matching-fingerprints/673716 "2021-01-03T12:39:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![Magnolia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Magnolia](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Magnolia) #### Post date: [August 5, 2021, 4:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/content-based-file-matching-fingerprints/673716/10 "2021-08-05T16:01:15Z")
Thanks for the support, @meh123 . Agree. Sooo worth it. I have been in the process of reorganizing the collection for months now. (Admittedly, it is a large collection.) And I frown ever so often how many disadvantages there are to the current method. Like here in the forum: [Plex incorrectly identifying TV episodes](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-incorrectly-identifying-tv-episodes/100265/54) [Incorrect match keeps re-occurring no matter how many times I fix it](https://forums.plex.tv/t/incorrect-match-keeps-re-occurring-no-matter-how-many-times-i-fix-it/673323/7) [TV-Serien Fehler bei Episoden-Benennung](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-serien-fehler-bei-episoden-benennung/112389) … and this list could go on and on. The standard advice is always to stick exactly to the naming schemes. Even though this is tedious and error-prone and unflexible, even though this is preventing new users from using and liking Plex, I find little little discussion to fix the root cause … _so far_. 🙂 I hope that over time more users and decisions makers at Plex will come to realize how deficient the current method is and that a much better way really is possible. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/content-based-file-matching-fingerprints/673716)._