Funny interaction. I have a file called s01e03.2020.mkv. This matches to a movie called s01e03 : S01E03 (2020) - IMDb
It’s matching to the third episode of a random TV show, is there any way to manually make it match to this movie? It’s not appearing in the Match modal that pops up to search for a movie title.
Please share a screen capture of showing us the files from the root of your show library all the way down to the faulty episode
My library is on S:\Videos and this file is at S:\Videos\s01e03.2020.mkv
Well, not what I would call a screen capture 
But regardless, you have a case of bad naming here…
Please see: https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/
I think you misunderstand, this is a movie, not a TV show. The movie is CALLED S01E03 (see the imdb link)
Change the file name, so that it no longer conforms to Plex’s naming schema for tv show episodes.
Side note: always enclose the release year in parentheses.
I’d try Season01Episode03 (2020) - {imdb-tt12261772}.mkv
Adding the imdb code is telling Plex to basically ignore the file name and match it directly to the IMDb ID.
That worked. Thanks!
Indeed
I know this is fixed, but I have a question. Since this MUST be a movies library (by the fact that it worked)… How did Plex auto-match this episode to a random TV Show episode? I thought that Movie libraries ignored TV-Show format files. At the very least, it should never match automatically to a random TV Show, and pull metadata for an episode in it… Should it?
OP could have pointed both libraries to the same folder. We haven’t enquired about that.
Yeah there’s two libraries at the same folder. I know it’s not recommended.
Ah, I thought you’d have mentioned that Plex would match the episode to a random show in the TV Show library, but it failed to show up as a movie in the movie library.
I used to have a mixed-media “NEW STUFF” folder, way back when I started using Plex. I couldn’t think of a way to implement it into Plex, so I gave up on it. Using the “Recently added” hubs in each movie/show library ended up being perfect for my purpose of calling attention to new stuff I acquired without it vanishing into the bottomless pit that is my collection.
If you can get it to work, that’s fine by me. I was just so confused there, wondering if my knowledge of Plex’s workings was off.
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