I am running the official PMS docker on Unraid. Scanned my library and quite a lot of movies have been wrongly identified. Any idea what is driving this and how to change?
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
/data/MOVIES/Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) [Bluray-1080p]/Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) [Bluray-1080p].mkv
Animal Farm (1954)
/data/MOVIES/Animal Farm (1999) [DVD]/Animal Farm (1999) [DVD].avi
The Assassin (2015)
/data/MOVIES/Assassin (2015) [Bluray-1080p]/Assassin (2015) [Bluray-1080p].mkv
The Black Cauldron (1985)
/data/MOVIES/Slash feat Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - Live At The Roxy (2015) [Bluray-1080p]/Slash Feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators - Live At The Roxy 9.25.14 (2015) [Bluray-1080p].mkv
Body of Lies (2008)
/data/MOVIES/One, Two, Many (2008) [DVD]/One, Two, Many (2008) [DVD].avi
And there are dozens more. I had high expectations when switching to Plex, but I either do something wrong or the movie scanning feature is not overly mature yet. Any thoughts?
Does your movie library point to /data/MOVIES/ ?
It must not point to folder above or below that level.
Do you have .nfo files in the subfolder of every movie?
Verify that these are indeed for the right movie. If they contain the IMDb ID for a different movie, Plex will use this IMDb ID to match the movie instead.
Have you ever performed the Plex Dance with these mismatched items?
Does your movie library point to /data/MOVIES/ ?
It must not point to folder above or below that level.
Yes, added library points to /data/MOVIES
Do you have .nfo files in the subfolder of every movie?
Verify that these are indeed for the right movie. If they contain the IMDb ID for a different movie, Plex will use this IMDb ID to match the movie instead.
I have nfo files for some, but not for all. Most of the ones above do not have nfo files. Also, local meta data is on the bottom of the list and I don’t have the NFO-to-Plex plugin installed.
Have you ever performed the Plex Dance with these mismatched items?
I have not, but hope there is a way to get things working without “dancing”. This is a fresh and clean library addition. The issue appears replicable.
I am trying whether switching from Plex Movie to TMDB may be a solution. It may be the easier scraper for me to use as all my movies are rigidly named following TMDB naming.
@stevepalmer said:
I have nfo files for some, but not for all. Most of the ones above do not have nfo files. Also, local meta data is on the bottom of the list and I don’t have the NFO-to-Plex plugin installed.
That doesn’t matter. Plex will seek for an IMDb ID without the 3rd party .nfo importer.
I have not, but hope there is a way to get things working without “dancing”. This is a fresh and clean library addition. The issue appears replicable.
This was merely to conduct a test. Please try with 1 - 3 items.
The full dance please, all steps in the noted order.
I had started a full fresh scan with TMDB and will get back once completed. As I have a fairly large library, this will take a few days. Will get back if things work better with TMDB agent.
The TMDB scan with agent works a lot better, so this seems to largely address my issue. Unfortunately, it is still nowhere as good as the Kodi or EMM movie scanner. Let me list a few things that continue to cause issues systematically. I have manually fixed them for myself, but may be worth to fix them for future releases:
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All movies with numbers in movie title that read like a year. For example, Blues Brothers 2000 or Blade Runner 2049. These movies cannot be identified by PMS as PMS assumes 2000 and 2049 are the movie years.
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All movies with [] in movie title. For example [REC] is not identified.
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All movies with ² or other special characters like the half-sign in movie title. Issue here is that the file names cannot be in these special characters, so just show a regular 2 or a regular 1/2.
@stevepalmer said:
The TMDB scan with agent works a lot better, so this seems to largely address my issue. Unfortunately, it is still nowhere as good as the Kodi or EMM movie scanner. Let me list a few things that continue to cause issues systematically. I have manually fixed them for myself, but may be worth to fix them for future releases:
- All movies with numbers in movie title that read like a year. For example, Blues Brothers 2000 or Blade Runner 2049. These movies cannot be identified by PMS as PMS assumes 2000 and 2049 are the movie years.
That is simply wrong! Numbers not in parentheses ( ) are assumed to be part of the name as example:
“Blade Runner 2049 (2017).mkv” is properly detected by Plex.
- All movies with in movie title. For example [REC] is not identified.
While kind of true as Plex is designed to ignore brackets. The fix is very easy: Leave out the brackets. However I have “[REC] (2007).mp4” and Plex handles it just fine. I suspect that brackets that appear before the date are considered part of the name while brackets after the date are assumed to hold comments.
- All movies with ² or other special characters like the half-sign in movie title. Issue here is that the file names cannot be in these special characters, so just show a regular 2 or a regular 1/2.
Again this is untrue. I have “Alien³ (1992).mp4” and it works fine.
BTW: I have never had any problem with the “Plex movie” agent and it is first in my movies agents and it is the agent of choice for my movie libraries. I suspect that many of the people having issues with “Plex movie” have naming or other issue with the files themselves. While it is not 100% for me (more like 98% or so) is is good enough and when recently I had to rebuild my entire library of over 3000 movies I only had 4 unmatched movies and 2 sets of movies that were incorrectly detected as the same movie and only 1 that was mismatched and needed to be fixed. All the movies that were unmatched were quite obscure very old movies and the one of the merged sets had one with the date wrong while the other was “The Haunting” that for some reason screws up no matter what I do so I always have to fix the one that was released later.
I think that the reason I have no real problem with “Plex movie” is that my naming is virtually perfect and has 100% been checked and corrected if needed with “FileBot” and I have also disabled “Local media assets” in all my agents.
For me, once I fixed my naming and disabled/moved “local media assets,” I have never had any matching problems except the ones mentioned above and 2991 out of 3000 is a 99.7% rate of success which ain’t bad at all.
What you say may be true for the Plex agent, but not for the TMDB agent. I cannot use Plex agent as it does not work for TV movies (see above).
My movies are 100% perfect in file name: movie name (year) [resolution].
PMS match rate with TMDB agent is above 99%, while Kodi is at 100%. I can live with the 99% and some manual rework, just reporting the issues above as they’d further improve PMS.
