Hello,
Just had a problem getting the correct metadata on a film called Split from 2016. It turns out that there are at least four movies called Split that were released in 2016. That’s hardly Plex’s fault but I wonder whether it could be made easier to deal with by presenting some extra information when you try to fix the incorrect match?
At the moment, the search options don’t present any way to differentiate apart from title and year and then, even worse, the list of results only gives the same information. The top four results for this film were completely indistinguishable (see attached image). I just had to pick from them at random, then wait a few minutes for the metadata to load, before finding out whether I’d lucked into the right one. I suppose this film is unusual in having four exact duplicates, I’ve certainly never encountered it before, but searching by two data points and then only presenting those two data points in the results seems like a recipe for confusion.
I’m not quite sure what extra information to suggest that would fit easily into the UI. Perhaps a column for director? That ought to distinguish pretty well. Alternatively, perhaps there could be access to a pop-up or expanding section for more info on hover or on clicking a “more info” or “expand” button?
Anyone else got any suggestions for resolutions? Or is this film such an unusual case that there’s no real problem?
