How to forcibly associate a movie with a certain IMDB/TMDB title?

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I have this movie -

I have labeled the directory it’s in “Jackpot (2019)”. I have labeled the movie “Jackpot (2019).mkv”. I have created a file called “Jackpot (2019)-imdb.nfo” with the IMDB link. I have tried renaming the file as “Jackpot (2019) (tt10381126).mkv”.

For some reason, the agent keeps picking up

This is movie named “Jackpot” from 2015.

I understand I can do a “fix match” for now, but I want this match associated with the movie and not with the instance of Plex. When I create a new library with this movie (on a friend’s computer for instance) I have to remember to force a new match in his machine. Every time I try to blow my database and try to re-create it, I have a list of “fix matches” to do.

Anyway I can include some kind of metadata in the directory that will basically tell Plex “hey just use this movieDB link or just use this IMDB link” ?

EDIT: Here are some similar discussions that went nowhere.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/4iu4s4/is_there_any_way_to_force_match_a_movie_using_the/

https://old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/bo17qw/you_can_force_plex_to_correcntly_match_a_movie_by/

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