I just downloaded and installed the latest version and I added my collection to the server but multiple movies appeared with wrong thumbnails or wrong titles some are missing entirely as well for example I have movie named Spider-Man 1 and it changed the title to Ananse: Spider Man 1 and it changed the thumbnail to some random BS and TV shows are totally bugged reaching from 80% to 99% of episodes missing entirely despite the entire tv show being found it only finds some or mostly 1 to 3 episodes at most why is that ?
My guess would be bad naming of your media files
As far as I know there is no movie called “Spider-Man 1”. Check yourself: TMDB or IMDB.
Read this article about naming and organizing your movies, implement it and with some luck you won’t be getting “random BS”.
Technically the real movie is called : Spider-Man and i named it Spider-Man 1 (because the other movies are called Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3) how it did it take Spider-Man 1 and turned it into Ananse: Spider Man 1 Also doesn’t explain others like Ant-Man title is right thumbnail is random bs from other movie or game
With so many similarly named movies it’s important to give Plex the hints it needs to match an item.
Here… make sure to use the accurate movie title and the release year:
Spider-Man (2002)
If there’s multiple movies with the same title released in the same year you can also include the ID of the movie, e.g. Spider-Man (2002) {tmdb-557} or Spider-Man (2002) {imdb-tt0145487}.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/
Just follow @tom80H advice and you’ll get instant matches and won’t be wasting your time.
There is nothing random here, you feed Plex BS and you get BS back. That’s how it works.
Not exclusive to Plex, but to any software system: GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out).
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I have the movie full name and it still appears as something wrong and also I am still confused to why most of the files are not being uploaded.
example is Boogeyman
The full movie name is not always enough. You must follow the Plex naming and organization requirements. See the document linked by @tom80H .
Which one: 2023, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2018, 2012, 2014, 1983, 1982, 1980?
2023 it does not even appear it only appears under “other videos” does not appear under “Films”
And how do you have the files named and organized?
Provide a screenshot, directory listing, etc showing the full path to the file, including the file extension (mkv/mp4/etc).
Films type file location F:\Movies\Boogeyman\The Boogeyman
I tried to change name Boogeyman The Boogeyman The Boogeyman 2023 The Boogeyman 2023 {imdb tt3427252}
it is .mp4 file
You’re close. Try one of the two below. The first matched immediately on my server.
You may need to Plex Dance the movie after renaming.
Also, Plex may be picking up bad embedded metadata, which will throw off matching. If you do not need Plex to read embedded metadata, make sure the capability is disabled.
Edit the library → Advanced → uncheck “Prefer Local Metadata” and save changes.
/Movies <-- folder added to Movie library
/The Boogeyman (2023) <-- year in parenthesis
/The Boogeyman (2023).mp4
or
/Movies <-- folder added to movie library
/The Boogeyman (2023) {imdb-tt3427252} <-- dash, not space, after imdb
/The Boogeyman (2023) {imdb-tt3427252}.mp4
Nothing works the movie does not appear in my library unless added to “other videos”
I have the same problem with hitman agent 47 also.
I found easy way to fix my issue with my movies being picked up wrong by the software all I needed is to select the all of the wrong ones (about from 400 movies about 15 and from 50 tv series about 10 of them) and just click on them individually and select either match or fix match and just select the movie from there instead of renaming my movies from the file source which helps me organize my files much easier outside the program but no matter what I try changing in settings or changing the file some files are not even recognised by the software.
They are not even appearing at all if it was wrong match I found the way to fix it but they are just missing and I don’t see any fix so far.
All of my movies and tv series are .mp4 (downloaded from flixtor.to)
Using the name with the IMDB or TMDB ID should provide an immediate match. Plex uses the ID instead of the folder & file name to match the movie.
You can try sorting for duplicates to see if movies were combined. In Plex Web, navigate to the movie library, then change All to Duplicates. If there are movies incorrectly combined, you can split them apart. Click on the three dots (more), then choose Split Apart. You can then manually match the movies.
To figure out why the movies are still not appearing, please perform the following steps. If they still do not appear, we can look at the server log files to see fi they show anything.
First, double check some library settings please.
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For the movie library, which folder is added to the library?
It should beF:\Movies, notF:\or a movie folder such asF:\Boogeyman (2023).
To check: Edit the library → Add Folders -
For the movie library, which scanner & agent? It should be
Plex Moviefor both.
To check: Edit the library → Advanced -
For the movie library, uncheck
Prefer local metadata
Edit the library → Advanced → uncheck “Prefer Local Metadata” and save changes.
Second, please check some server settings. This will help if we need to pull log files.
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Debug, but not verbose, logging is enabled.
Settings → Server_Name → General + Show Advanced
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Enable Scan my library automatically.
Plex will scan the libraries at startup. It also adds information to the log files.
Settings → Library → Scan my library automatically -
Restart Plex Media Server.
Third, let’s see if we can get The Boogeyman to appear.
- Name the folder and file with the date in parenthesis and the IMDB ID in curly braces.
/Movies <-- folder added to movie library
/The Boogeyman (2023) {imdb-tt3427252} <-- dash, not space, after imdb
/The Boogeyman (2023) {imdb-tt3427252}.mp4
- Plex Dance the movie.
Move the folder and file, not just the file.
Do not skip any steps.
Did the movie appear in the library?
If not, pull the server log files (Settings → Troubleshooting) and upload to the thread. Drag the ZIP file into the message window. It will insert at the cursor location.
I found the problem apparently multiple movies of mine are merged for no damn reason. The software believes they are duplicates. The problem that I have now is that I cannot split everything that got merged because some of them are tv series and the software only allows movies to be split apart.
When you follow Plex requirements this happens very infrequently.
Plex Documentation → Your Media
Read the Plex documentation regarding media naming and organization.
Plex does not support mixing movies and tv shows in the same library.
Move the TV series to a TV Show library.
As with movies, Plex has specific naming and organization requirements for TV shows. For best results, follow the documentation explicitly.
There are many tools that can help with naming things. Filebot is popular. The free version of Tiny Media Manager works quite well. There are many others as well.
TMM Renamer Patterns:
- Show Name:
${showTitle} (${showYear}) - Season:
Season ${seasonNr2} - Episode Name:
${showTitle} (${showYear}) s${seasonNr2}e${episodeNr2} ${episode.title} - Movie Name:
${title} (${year}) {tmdb-${movie.tmdbId}}
PowerRenamer in Microsoft Power Tools is helpful for simple renaming with pattern matches or regular expressions. It makes quick work of tasks such as adding a year to file names, removing undesirable text from multiple files, etc
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