Good morning, Plex continually gets the metadata wrong on movies with the same name but different year. As an example, the year is in the movie file name - AKA Moulin Rouge (2001), so it should get it correct. But because there are 3 Moulin Rouge movies (at least) throughout the years Plex will just randomly pick which year and poster to give it. Yes I can go in and manually fix each but this is tiresome. Is there a setting somewhere that can alleviate this issue? Thanks
From my experience,
If the Folder name and movie name have the year like you show then it usually gets it correct. That’s if your file names matches Plex naming convention.
movies\Moulin Rouge (2001)\Moulin Rouge (2001) (1080p-h264 AAC-2Ch).mkv
movies\Moulin Rouge (2001)\Moulin Rouge (2001) [1080p-h264 AAC-2Ch].mkv
Plex ignores everything in a [Bracket]
There are not two (YEAR) fields in Movie Files - only one.
The Movie’s Folder and The Movie should have the same name and with [Brackets] they do. Technically.
My file names are simply “Moulin Rouge (2001).mp4”. The folder in which the file resides is simply named “2001”.
Ah… mp4…
Move Local Media Assets to the bottom of the stack of active agents under ALL Tabs in Shows and Movies:
Red: where it was
Green: where it goes
Refresh metadata - after double checking your file name and structure - should set things right.
Reason:
With LMA in the top slot Plex will actually prefer a bogus embedded Title Field over a perfectly named and structured file. Drag LMA down, taking it’s priority away - and Plex will stop misbehaving.
Ok cool my local media assets was at the top and I have moved it to the bottom and refreshed metadata. Lets see how that goes… Thanks a ton for your suggestion.
Don’t understand…
I don’t have [Bracket] showing in the file name or path, I was aware that’s how you add info to file names for plex to ignore.
I don’t have 2 movie years in the the movie files only one… check the \
I pulled that from your post - just a typo perhaps?
(Plex/Data Site - expects a (YEAR) in parenthesis the ‘extra info’ would be [Bracketed] to be compliant)
Actually ( parenthesis are compliant…
That’s what I use for all my naming…
You know - I don’t see ANY mention of [Brackets] for Plex-Ignore (in my brief search), but I do see every Ninja, Employee and Veteran using/suggesting same - 'cause it just works.
It definitely should be added to the Support Pages in plain sight,
so I could quote it for us here…lol
{Brackets] are Plex-Ignore in a file name, always have been for Plex even before it was Plex
(parenthesis) were for grouping information, like the (year) or (video,audio info) etc
It make it easier for Plex to find the name of the movie even if the name is a year as in.
1917 (2019).mkv
Any way we got off track…
This issue is that the wrong folder name is being used,
He has it in a folder called 2001… I would think that would cause a lot of issues all around.
Indeed.
Regarding [Brackets] this is about the highest authority on the matter I can find ATM:
I have to go with Otto - on everything - don’t you?
That’s indeed an issue. If you put a movie into a folder, the name of the folder becomes even more imprtant than the name of the file.
If you still want to separate your movies by year, you’ll have to create a subfolder for every movie:
/ Movies
/ 2001
/ Moulin Rouge (2001)
Moulin Rouge (2001) - [otherstuff].mp4
(This strategy will fail miserably, if you try to apply it to tv shows, btw.)
So you guys put everything in one big folder or many multiple folders? ouch. The above fix seems to have worked - a little time will tell.
Filebot makes that sooooo easy too:
{n} ({y}) [{vf}]/{n} ({y}) [{vf}]
results in:
Moulin Rouge (1952) [1080p]\
.........Moulin Rouge (1952) [1080p].mkv
and that finds approval with the most discriminating Ninja (and the most trusted one).
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Ahh ok cool. I currently use Subler. I’ll check out filebot. Is it better?
One folder for movies and one for TV Shows…
Let Plex manage your media…
Use it’s search and sorting capabilities.
I’ve never used Subler. Can it do that?
I do have a Filebot link handy at all times tho and that’s the link ‘the most trusted Ninja’ would place as well:
