I matched it to the Have Yourself A Goofy Little Christmas, it matched & when the Metadata refreshed it said A Goof Troop Christmas. That one matched with Plex Movie & I haven’t yet tried to change the Agent. I checked & saw that it was different from what it said, did a quick search on IMDB & say IMDB had it listed as the name it matched with
There is a Goof Troop Christmas there too, though it has no image.
Yes, that is true, but the description & image were not consistent with that, plus I selected the other name. But they WERE consistent with the IMDB ID associated with that TMDB entry. Which seems to be a theme I’m running into a lot adding VHS rips of weird Christmas stuff my Dad recorded when I was a kid. Which means it’s almost certainly ALWAYS doing that, it just doesn’t get noticed because the information & images are the same
Can you please copy the xml from the movie and paste it here. Well just the top part in the video div
will be like this
<Video ratingKey="28190" key="/library/metadata/28190" guid="plex://movie/5d776845e6d55c002040f828" studio="Fox Searchlight Pictures" type="movie" title="500 Days of Summer" librarySectionTitle="Cinema" librarySectionID="44" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/44" contentRating="PG-13" summary="Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life." rating="7.5" audienceRating="7.2" userRating="8.0" viewOffset="937000" viewCount="2" lastViewedAt="1589245471" year="2009" tagline="This is not a love story. This is a story about love." thumb="/library/metadata/28190/thumb/1605819677" art="/library/metadata/28190/art/1605819677" duration="5704573" originallyAvailableAt="2009-01-09" addedAt="1470800266" updatedAt="1605819677" audienceRatingImage="themoviedb://image.rating" chapterSource="media">
Which one?
Frosty
<Video ratingKey="57619" key="/library/metadata/57619" guid="plex://movie/5d7769ae47dd6e001f6c90a8" studio="United Productions of America (UPA)" type="movie" title="Frosty the Snowman" librarySectionTitle="Holiday" librarySectionID="3" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/3" contentRating="TV-G" summary="This short little cartoon is based on the popular song by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson, first recorded in 1950 by Gene Autry as his followup to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer." audienceRating="6.0" year="1950" thumb="/library/metadata/57619/thumb/1606180926" art="/library/metadata/57619/art/1606180926" duration="188584" originallyAvailableAt="1950-12-31" addedAt="1606134114" updatedAt="1606180926" audienceRatingImage="themoviedb://image.rating" languageOverride="en-US">
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Intergalactic Thanksgiving
<Video ratingKey="57398" key="/library/metadata/57398" guid="plex://movie/5d776b75ad5437001f7a03ab" studio="Nelvana" type="movie" title="Intergalactic Thanksgiving (Please Don't Eat the Planet)" librarySectionTitle="Holiday" librarySectionID="3" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/3" contentRating="TV-G" summary="With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a delightful animated special combining space age fantasy with the old and revered traditions that make Thanksgiving a great festive holiday." audienceRating="7.0" year="1979" tagline="Please don't eat the planet" thumb="/library/metadata/57398/thumb/1606278837" duration="1473236" originallyAvailableAt="1979-10-31" addedAt="1606026829" updatedAt="1606278837" audienceRatingImage="themoviedb://image.rating">
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Goofy
<Video ratingKey="57785" key="/library/metadata/57785" guid="plex://movie/5d7768525af944001f1ff3d3" studio="Walt Disney Television" type="movie" title="Have Yourself A Goofy Little Christmas (1992)" librarySectionTitle="Holiday" librarySectionID="3" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/3" contentRating="TV-Y7" summary="Big-hearted Goofy tries to go all out to give Max a great Christmas but as usual catastrophe follows Goofy's intentions. Excellent Christmas message of Family, Friends and Love conveyed." audienceRating="8.0" viewCount="1" lastViewedAt="1606272486" year="1992" thumb="/library/metadata/57785/thumb/1606270667" duration="1426540" originallyAvailableAt="1992-12-05" addedAt="1606233368" updatedAt="1606270667" audienceRatingImage="themoviedb://image.rating">
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I have manually fixed them, so if you need them as they are matched let me know which one & I can dance it & then post what it gets from the initial match
I wanted to see the guid and such when you matched it with themoviedb. All of those were matched with the new Plex Movie agent, not MovieDB.
I just re-did Frosty
<Video ratingKey="57619" key="/library/metadata/57619" guid="plex://movie/5d7769ae47dd6e001f6c90a8" studio="United Productions of America (UPA)" type="movie" title="Frosty the Snowman" librarySectionTitle="Holiday" librarySectionID="3" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/3" contentRating="TV-G" summary="This short little cartoon is based on the popular song by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson, first recorded in 1950 by Gene Autry as his followup to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer." audienceRating="6.0" year="1950" thumb="/library/metadata/57619/thumb/1606279387" art="/library/metadata/57619/art/1606279387" duration="188584" originallyAvailableAt="1950-12-31" addedAt="1606134114" updatedAt="1606279387" audienceRatingImage="themoviedb://image.rating" languageOverride="en-US">
I think I see the same behavior that @LostOnTheLine does.
If I manually Match... or Fix Match..., no matter which agent I specify in the “Search Options” screen, I see a plex://movie GUID in the XML.
(It never occurred to me that you could still search with a different agent. I assumed that it was just searching and getting an ID for the movie, but then would still “use” the Plex Movie agent to get metadata.)
that was matched with the new plex Movie agent too.
guid="plex://movie/5d7769ae47dd6e001f6c90a8"
a moviedb GUID would look like
guid="com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb://355524?lang=en"
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because you can’t. I can only assume @drzoidberg33 misspoke
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It is unfortunate. I don’t recall the reason we cannot yet hide the other options if they will not really function when Plex Movie is used. I think the old ones were written in Python and the new in C ( but don’t quote me) and are just not compatible to be mixed in a library.
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<Video ratingKey="57619" key="/library/metadata/57619" guid="com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb://143204?lang=en" studio="United Productions of America (UPA)" type="movie" title="Frosty the Snowman" librarySectionTitle="Holiday" librarySectionID="3" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/3" contentRating="TV-G" summary="This short little cartoon is based on the popular song by Jack Rollins and Steve Nelson, first recorded in 1950 by Gene Autry as his followup to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer." year="1950" thumb="/library/metadata/57619/thumb/1606280489" art="/library/metadata/57619/art/1606280489" duration="188584" originallyAvailableAt="1950-12-24" addedAt="1606134114" updatedAt="1606280489" audienceRatingImage="themoviedb://image.rating" languageOverride="en-US">
The GUID is different, yet the results in the Metadata match are the same
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The old ones are definitely Python, because I’ve monkeyed about with them. It was nice that the filename pattern-matching code was viewable.
Maybe they can be hidden when the new-and-wonderful Plex TV agent comes out. That whole area in the Settings is confusing now.
So …
Name files goodly (as always)
Check IMDB/TMDB
Use IMDB/TMDB IDs to REALLY force a match
But if you’re using “Plex Movie”, ignore the order of agents in Settings -> Agents, and don’t try to use a different agent when matching?
How do I do that? The only ways that I know that worked in the past haven’t worked since the new Plex Movie Agent came out
Does “Frosty the Snowman (1954)” exist on IMDB?
I thought (some of?) the agents always pulled certain data from IMDB, but maybe that’s bad memory, or I’m just muddying the conversation.
Edit: I have the impression that IMDB tt0495112 and TMDB 143204 are the same thing, just that their data is poor. You?
If you Match... or Fix Match... and search for tt0495112 that seems to work really well, including with the new agent.
If you put {imdb-tt0495112} or {tmdb-143204} in a directory or filename, that seems to work really well too.
Edit 3: For some shorts like this, it’s not worth trying to match them to real movies, because the metadata providers don’t add much value to them. I’ve dumped a few things into an “Other Media” Library for that reason.
Edit 4: I’m surprised this isn’t muddled up with the Rankin/Bass “Frosty …”.
That’s the whole problem. It does, but the information is wrong. It has the release date as 1950, the time the SONG that it’s based on was written.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0495112
I have submitted the correction, but IMDB takes forever to even add artwork & my experience since Amazon bought them is that the corrections when they have wrong data have a 20% chance of being approved, & even when the submission has lots of cited sources to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the information I provided is incorrect & what it was replacing is wrong 2 in 3 at least still get rejected
Yeah.
As a younger man I enjoyed contributing to IMDB/TMDB/TVDB all of those databases. I thought of it as being a good citizen, giving back to the “crowdsourced” data that I enjoyed.
Now … edit the data fields in Plex, lock the fields you’ve corrected, live your life.
Edit: Wikipedia has an apparently authoritative source for the 1950 date. Go check the book out from the library! 
This is what I was talking about it not working. What it returns for the TVDB-ID is not from TVDB
EDIT: Scratch that, that was IMDB number
I don’t think you can pick and choose where each of the data elements come from. Plex is pulling them from “sources” and merging them.
To me it looks like it’s matching the movie, and you can either argue with IMDB or … I dunno. Watch paint dry, push a rope, count angels on the head of a pin - something more productive.
Edit: Or suggest that Plex add a feature, and allow you to choose where data elements are pulled from.
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