Matching issues, Harry Hottter and the Deathly Hollows

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Does anyone know how to force Plex to split 2-part movies that were released in 2 parts into two separate movies listed in Plex?

The example I have is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. For those who don’t know, it was released as 2 movies with “Part 1” being movie number 1, and “Part 2” being released about a year later. Right now, plex is doing what it normally should do and assuming that the 2 parts are the same movie, just perhaps Disk1 and Disk2 rips. This obviously isn’t the case here. I wanted to split the movies up but I cannot seem to do that in the interface. The best I can do is “Unmatch” but it’s still grouping both files under the “Part 1” header/title.

Can anyone think of a way to split these or otherwise force Plex to ID them as different movies?

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You’re better at searching than I am :slight_smile:

Was actually about to post another possible solution I just found. The files used to be arranged like this:
/Movies
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.mkv
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.mkv

I changed it to the following and it worked for me as an alternative to the solution from Otto:

/Movies
/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.mvk
/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.mvk

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##Matching issues, Harry Hottter and the Deathly Hollows

Read the title of the post and thought - did they really make a porn movie with that title?

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Include the date every time and issues like this will NOT happen.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011)

The release date is one major way that Plex can tell similarly named movies apart.

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Guilty here! I experienced the same issue with the same movies and agree that adding the release year to the filename greatly helps in matching metadata.

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