IMDB title identifiers as an alternative to information from Agents

Feature Suggestions
1

I have some Hammer House of Horror films. One is 1 hour 10 mins long titled ‘Black Carrion’. I have it in my movies folder but cannot download the information for it as IMDB has it listed as a TV series episode. I could move it to my TV shows folder but I only have a few episodes and would rather treat them as films.

It would be great if the fix match dialogue box had a field where you could enter the unique IMDB identifier to grab the info this way instead. ie for Black Carrion the code is tt0086970.

2

You can already do that – however Plex won’t allow you to mix different media types (e.g. matching tv-episode metadata into a movie-type library).

3

Saying Plex wont allow you to do that may be correct, but I’m asking for it to be possible in future.

Where do you enter the IMDB code?

4

You can include the IMDb ID in your folder names → https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/#toc-0

Alternatively use the IMDb ID as the search term in the fix match dialog (or TMDb/TVDb IDs… however those will require a tmdb- or tvdb- prefix respectively) → see “Tips” in https://support.plex.tv/articles/201018497-fix-match-match/

So… if your request is to allow mixed content libraries, I recommend you comment/vote in the existing feature suggestion on this matter in order to avoid distracting/dispersing votes and attention.

5

2021 clean-up: implemented/duplicate