I have more examples but the above two is just 2 movies I properly renamed and moved into a sorted folder where plex should have no problem whatsoever grabbing the correct info because both movie name and directory in which it is located is named properly…
So, is there a way to get Plex to tell me when a movie it recognises differs completely from the name of the movie file or directory?
You need to check the naming and structure. Something is very wrong.
To verify:
[chuck@lizum /syno.117]$ ls -la /syno/movies2/Bikini*
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Jan 23 18:02 ./
drwxr-xr-x 226 chuck users 12288 Jan 23 18:01 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 123 Jan 23 18:02 Bikini Beach (1964).mkv
[chuck@lizum /syno.118]$
Move the movie(s) out. Update Library, Empty Trash, Clean Bundles (allowing each to complete before the next step)
Now get into the PMS Plug-in Logs directory
Of interest to you are: com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb.log
Add one movie back in. Watch it be added.
Open the log file and look at the bottom. You’ll see the matching info and scores. If not right or uncertain, Please post here.
The problem is this… If I have not been sitting, manually renaming my files/directories exactly as it should be little by little, then I would never have caught this…
To be clear, I have an unsorted folder, I move the movie into a temp location, rename directory, rename movie, rename any extras as needed, move directory into sorted folder (which has never seen the files before), and then do a scan…
doing the plex dance on a brand new file is not going to help… the problem comes in with this:
There is an issue with the way Plex looks at certain names and does not recognise it properly… The Plex dance will tango to death over this issue as it will never resolve anything if the scanning agent cannot reliably choose the correct movie.
Again, if I was not sitting doing small batches of movies at a time and manually checking/comparing what I renamed vs what Plex recognises these would get lost in the 4300 other movies and I would only start missing it when I specifically go look for a movie and can’t find it, or happen to run into a duplicate and checking the file see that Plex has picked up two completely different files in 2 completely different directories and seen it as the same movie…
Can you get the log files for me so I may see this in action? This is what I need in hand. When I show expected behavior versus actual behavior with data, “stuff” gets fixed quick.
in checking com.plexapp.agents.imdb.log I can see Plex picking up the file (correctly named) in the folder (correctly named) but then for some reason picking the wrong tt id from imdb…
@ChuckPa I just check the folders, both has .nfo files in, both .nfo files point to the wrongly named movies… mistake on my end… but given my settings above, why is plex reading the .nfo files anyway?
but where is it pulling that data from? if scanning imdb it should have gotten the correct tt id, but it seems to have picked the local .nfo for which it was not set up above a proper search
FileBot is nice for Windoze yes… Haven’t had the time to do for Ubuntu and to be honest I rather enjoy going through every single movie I have and renaming and sorting it out, makes you pick up a lot of olden goldies…
As for the NFO files, I haven’t completed testing yet with updated NFO but can’t see why Plex would be reading local files if nowhere Local Media has been selected…
NFO files are a historical thing coming from YAMJ and sorting for Mede8er (Still love my Mede8er, just hate the manual work for it), so yes NFO’s are there in about 4000 folders or so… Will just keep an eye out for it if anything gets picked up wrongly again, but I would love to hear from Plex on why it read those files to begin with…
