I just set up plex for the first time. I like it so far.
Unfortunately some of my media files are not matched correctly with neither the “Plex Movie” or “Movie Database” Agents.
It is some (appr. 50 titles) which I have to go through manually now. For this experience I have a two suggestions:
If I click on “Fix Match…” or “Match…” the search dialog directly starts searching. I can’t abort it and it fails due to the old search string already used from plex itself after scanning. Then I enter the title correctly or the imdb id and a match is found. The automatic search on opening of the dialog should be deactivated by default - it is highly annoying.
I have to go through every file one by one now. I would like to have a “Matchmaking UI” in which I see the current Title and Year, as well as the filename incl. path and a search input field. In the search field I could put the imdb id. After doing that for multiple files I click one time on Rematch All. Plex could search all rows where a search string has been entered. If it is an exact match (should be either a match or a fail, because you enter the id) plex could automatically match it and refresh the metadata. I attached a little sketch for the UI.
Generally speaking, your best shot to completely avoid this situation is to stick with Plex’ naming conventions for movies (or tv shows). What dane22 said above – he definitely is a faster typer than me
If you need to fix a match… click Search Options… that’ll allow you to change the search parameters (such as title. year, agent and language). Going with the search options will also give you the list of search results to pick from. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201018497-fix-match-match/
Also… if you really need to manually fix matches and trouble is finding them in the first place… you can use Plex’ filter function to restrict your view to Unmatched items. It’s not a “mass editing dialog” as you’re asking for… but it does the job
thanks for the fast responses.
Most of my files are at least somehow matching the guidelines it is mostly the year which is not in brackets sometimes.
Thanks for the hint with the unmatched filter - I will browse through and try to rename the file first
Anyway, the automatic search on opening the matching dialog is still annoying - any thoughts about that?
There’s tools that can help you with that… many users are quite fond of a tool called FileBot (used to be available for Windows only but apparently they’ve now added Linux/Mac versions as well)
hm… interesting. I did this multiple times causing my first search to fail always. Second time with the imdb id worked than, so I assumed the automatic search finished before my first manual search ruining my first manual search response?
Plex uses The Movie Database for it’s scraper. When I name my movies, I go to https://www.themoviedb.org/ find and click on the movie, then copy the title exactly how they have it with the year in parentheses and Plex usually matches the movie automatically without having to mess with fixing the match.
it is mostly the year which is not in brackets sometimes.
