Mother (2017 Short) and mother! (2017) unable to split apart

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I have the following two files:

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Since I’m using the imdb id each movie’s folder and file name, they are getting correctly matched by Plex as being two different movies. :+1: Great so far…

Then I edited the short film’s release date to 2017 since the automatch gets it wrong as 2020. After that, no matter what I do, I cannot get them to show up as separate movies in Plex search:
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^ there is always the +1

There’s no Split Apart option:
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They have different guids:
guid="plex://movie/5d776d3f7a53e9001e755591"
and
guid="plex://movie/5d776c17594b2b001e6eac2f"

I tried unmatching and matching again, restarting plex, etc

They don’t show up as different editions of the movie, I checked.

The only way to get them to split up properly in search is to undo the manual release date edit and let it have the incorrect 2020 year for the short film.

So I’m out of ideas and I don’t know what else to try. This seems like it might be a bug?

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Plex is picking up the French release date for some reason: Madre (2017) - Release Info - IMDb.

Not sure why Plex is combining the movies on your server. It is not doing so on mine.

You must be using the Plex Movie agent & scanner for Plex to pick up the IMDB/TMDB ID.

Plex Dance both movies, then return them one at a time to the movie library. See if that helps.

How I named the movies:

/Movies
.../Madre (2017) {imdb-tt6597824}/Madre (2017) {imdb-tt6597824}.mkv
.../Mother! (2017) {imdb-tt5109784}/Mother! (2017) {imdb-tt5109784}.mkv

Plex picked up the French release date for Madre. I edited it to the Spanish release date 17 March 2017 and refreshed the metadata. Plex picked up the new date and did not combine the movies.

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Well it does not seem like they are being merged, as if they were the would not be a +1 on the search. Like if you had the same movie in two different libraries/servers it would do the same thing. If when browsing the library ( not using search) I’m assuming they are both listed separately and therefore are already apart, so nothing to split.

It does sounds like search is having a hard time with it probably because of date but that is really odd.

I’ll let our metadata team know about the date issue and the folks who handle search

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Only search is affected.

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