Hey folks,
I’d just like to clear up any confusion there might be on this from the person who made this change. This was a bug fix as we shouldn’t have been showing other agent options for Fix Match for Plex Movie libraries.
The fact that the TMDB agent used to actually work for Plex Movie libraries here was just a happy accident however other combinations of trying to match with different agents or using the Plex Movie agent to Fix Match on other agent libraries would just be completely broken.
We do not at the moment allow TMDB ids to be used in the Fix Match title field as there wouldn’t be a way to tell if the number you entered was an id or the name of a movie (e.g. 300). You can use IMDB ids because they’re prefixed with tt so we can easily tell that it’s an IMDB id.
If you really can’t find a match and there is no IMDB entry for it, you’ll need to add the TMDB id to the filename, using the {tmdb-xxx} syntax as described here: Naming and organizing your Movie files | Plex Support
I’ll see if we can at some point add a dedicated field for external id in fix match so it can be separate from the title but as it should be quite rare for most people to need this it’s not a high priority and there is a work-around with the file naming solution.
Hope this clears things up a bit.
