Does the new Plex Movie Scanner have backward compatiblity with old IMDB id format?

I’m not a dev, but my understanding is that the scanner should watch for any IMDB tt’s in the file. Also, brackets are generally ignored, but if tt’s are placed in square brackets, they aren’t ignored, they’ll be picked up as part of the new scanner. Here’s a reply from a dev (Chuck) that confirms the square brackets work for IMDB data, so I suspect it works without brackets too.

IMO I’d purposely do a test library, where you pick a file that often gets mismatched, add the tt info to the name, and see if the new scanner picks it up. My guess is that it will.

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