I added “What Remains” from 2022 (tmdb and thetvdb lists it as 2024 - but it premiered at film festivals in 2022). Therefore the file has 2022 in its name.
I generatedf a .plexmatch file to get the correct match:
The film festival premieres are intentionally not used in Plex. The date of “General availability” (i.e. theatrical premiere, or physical, or streaming release) is king.
.plexmatch is for TV shows.
And quite overkill in this instance.
/Movies
/What Remains (2022) - {imdb-tt15825188}
What Remains (2022).mkv
I’d propose letting plex use .plexmatch for movies as well, given that the function is already there.
Especially now that the case is that databases use different years at a much higher rate, this is certain to cause chaos in the time to come.
It is actually not. Series and movies are using separate code paths.
If you absolutely want to use external files for improving the match, you can use the old method of adding a text file, which contains the ttxxxxxxxx number of IMDb.
Then change the file name extension from .txt to .nfo
Depends on whether you already use one subfolder per movie.
If yes, you can use any file name.
If no, you better use the exact video file name (except the file name extension).
If it’s already correctly matched, there is no need for this.
(Unless you want to prepare for a library rebuild [e.g. in case of data loss].)
I’ve had .nfo files containing the full imdb in the past - but never noticed that it helped for matching though.
I do tend to put a nfo in there tho, but that’s pretty much source vs encode information in case of wrong FPS \ aspect ratio etc.
I guess I could put the tmdb, imdb, tvdbid’s in there as well
