Fix match using TMDB or IMDB ID number

[JuiceWSA]

@RTMcG

one would think the studio knows how to name their own feature.

They don’t use Plex apparently.
or read TVDB/TMDB.
an obvious shortcoming.

That’s why many/most/some of use FileBot.

[RTMcG]

I’ll have to get on that…

[JuiceWSA]

Yup. For instance:

When you stick the brand new Family Guy Season 15 Uncensored DVD that Amazon sent (along with your 3 mo. supply of designer pygmy lion food) into the apparatus (MakeMKV for the first stage), you are met with this Title Field:

I’m not sure who that Title Field serves - but it ain’t any of us - and if we don’t deal with it RIGHT NOW it’s gonna be embedded into every single file off this disc and stink like a rotten bean/broccoli/boiled egg fart every time you turn around.

With the first field on the left activated, highlight the bogus Title Field on the right and hit delete, then hit enter:

Poof… Gone - for every item in the list on the left.
At least we don’t have to deal with that any more. <— I would then right click on the upmost field to the left and choose ‘Unselect All’. I can see which ones are episodes. I’ll go in and turn off VOB subs, turn on the UTF-8 subs, these discs so happily contain and away we go.

If I knew these episodes were correct, I could go in right now to each episode, open ‘File Name’ on the right and give each one a preliminary name like:
family guy s15e1.xxx - and so on - but I don’t know about these episodes until I get them out here where I can look at 'em.

I will do that when I identify them - and Filebot will bring it home.

(these are actually the old files - the new ones will be MKVs - named identically and instantly with Filebot)

[OttoKerner]

@JuiceWSA

I’ll go in and turn off VOB subs, turn on the UTF-8 subs, these discs so happily contain and away we go.

DVD with SRT subs?!!!

[JuiceWSA]

Yea… it’s amazing.

The Family Guy DVDs are about the only ones I’ve ever seen… that I remember.

I think all our lives would be greatly improved if they included some UTF-8 subs with everything - and that’s why I think it will never happen… so I’m grateful for these - at least…lol

[JuiceWSA]

@OttoKerner

DVD with SRT subs?!!!

Also:
Looney Tunes (1929) - VOB and Plain Text.

[OttoKerner]

Ah, Closed Captions. Those are relatively rare on DVD.

[JuiceWSA]

Extremely so, but always a welcome find.

[o_boote_gmail_com]

This is quite frustrating…

I don’t understand why Plex won’t let me force match a video to a particular ID - especially for documentaries.

I get it - auto matching is vastly improved by filtering results by movie / tv series per library. But I’m specifying the exact match criteria.

But if I specifically tell Plex that a particular file matches a particular imdb profile
By specifying “tt8254060” in the match

Example:

"The Nature of Things" The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World (TV Episode 2018)...

It’s in movies because it’s the only instance of this long-running straight-to-tv feature of longer documentaries.

Le sigh

[JuiceWSA]

Plex Movie won’t do Documentaries or TV Shows.

Name it this:

The Kingdom How Fungi Made Our World (2018)

The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World

Fix Match, Search Options, Agent drop down:
Select TMDB.
(the TMDB ID# trick doesn’t work all that well)

Got Docs?
Use TMDB.
Go there and find your Doc - name it that.
(or have Filebot do it for you in a fraction of a second)

Also, in future, for more stubborn items…

You can, Fix Match, and in Search Options, select from the Agent drop down Personal Media, then hand edit the item and make it anything you want. You already know where all the artwork and descriptions are.

Also for the item above - depending on how long you’ve been working on it under Plex’s watchful eye - you may want to Plex Dance that item for a complete Do-Over:

The Plex Dance ™

The purpose of this is to remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item that Plex usually keeps. This helps when you want to “start from scratch” for particular item move all files for the media item out of the directory your Library is looking at, so Plex will not “see” it anymore scan the library library (to detect changes) empty trash clean bundles (in menu next to server name, when accessed under ‘More’) double check naming schema and move files back scan the library Support articl…

A new bundle with all the right stuff in it - is always welcome in the Plexiverse.

[o_boote_gmail_com]

Nailed it! Thanks JuiceWSA

(I had wrongly interpreted that it wouldn’t allow a TV match in a Movie library (regardless of agent) but I guess as long as TMDB has a listing (any category) then the TMDB agent will match it)

Worked a charm - now I can go fix the last few stubborn items and that’ll be the whole library sorted

[JuiceWSA]

@o_boote_gmail_com

(I had wrongly interpreted that it wouldn’t allow a TV match in a Movie library (regardless of agent) but I guess as long as TMDB has a listing (any category) then the TMDB agent will match it)

If you name it what TMDB calls it it’ll probably, at least, show up in a Fix Match.
You know what to do if it won’t cooperate.

[o_boote_gmail_com]

Absolute champion - even works a charm for concerts (which I’d virtually given up on)

I’d set TMDB as default if I wasn’t so attached to iMDB ratings

[JuiceWSA]

@o_boote_gmail_com

I’d set TMDB as default if I wasn’t so attached to iMDB ratings

I do so many Docs I need TMDB.
I get a few ratings, not many.
I think I’m getting RT ratings, if the setting actually does anything, but at this point it’s actually not clear where those % ratings come from - and they are few and far between.