with Plex Movie agent at least, it has trouble when the file has been renamed to put the common words at the end such as Title, The instead of The Title. Should be an easy fix to get it to look for and search for these properly. Its been searching poorly this way for years and requires to go into the search area and do a manual search first moving the common word to the beginning of the search string.
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Are you referring to plex movie agent matching a title? If so then I’m not sure what the issue is. I mean, I have been naming all my movies(and series too!) like this since day one.
Never had an issue matching.*
And, if for some reason your title did not get matched automatically and you do a manual search then yes, the search box will contain the “title, the” because plex could not find a match and therefor doesn’t know if the title is in fact “title, the” as opposed of “the, title”. We know plex parses the name because we see the year already filled in.
Sure…
There are a gazillion movies out and pretty much none of them end with the word “the” or “, the” so we(and plex) could assume these are just article words.
This issue happens on a weekly basis so these aren’t rare isolated incidents. Optimizations can be made to account for these issues.
I suppose you’re right but you should not have to match manually though… I mean, if the filename is correct then Plex should be finding and matching to an online source.
I have over 1475 movies that end with “, The (YEAR)” with no problems.
Can you provide a filename that you had a problem matching?
today’s incident was with Great Hack, The
Is that the name exactly?
Great Hack, The.ext
Should be Great Hack, The (2019).ext
Great Hack, The (2019).mkv but the filename shouldnt matter for you to test. Search for Great Hack, The with year 2019 returns no results
I see your issue and your point.
It’s most unfortunate you are having to do any searches by hand. Plex should be picking these up and finding them online automatically. I am more worried why plex is not.
Try the search directly at themoviedb website. You will get zero hits. Because that is not the name of the movie. It’s The Great Hack. So I would say it is not Plexes fault.
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This is a feedback post with feedback on an idea to optimize the user experience. It is not a bug report assigning blame.
Plex can parse data returned from a third party search and use coding logic to account for this (although I clearly stated this was with the Plex agent and not themoviedb agent)
A significant number of users organize their files this way so implementing this feedback would create a smoother user experience.
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Use MP4 Files
Embed the CORRECT FILE NAME into the Title Field
Move Local Media Assets to the top slot
and go about your day.
Your file name is wrong - deal with it - there’s one way.
Everyone feel free to continue to comment, I am not replying any further but do hope Plex looks at my feedback suggestion.
Well, you could hunt down and vote on that existing feature request - if one exists - or you could create a real Feature Request if you want this one to have a snowball’s chance.
Plex, in my experience doesn’t read forums and Feedback is what they get alot of at the Company Picnic ('cause that sound guy sucks).
They swear they respond to Feature Requests.
You may want to actually create one.
I’d be watching it closely to find out how many users really are butchering their file names.
Plex has the feature request area for this, that is why I didn’t spot this as a feature request 
You might have a point. Plex would need to strip the article, since “Great Hack” also leads to the correct result. But when? Only when it is at the end? Always? Dunno how much work this is, but seems doable.
Do write a feature request. With enough votes it might get implemented. But I wouldn’t hold my breath until then.
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