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Come on Plex I’m a long time user and this is getting stupid. Every time I add a Blu-ray rip it does not even try to match. I hit Match. It then lists the incorrect results. I then have to hit “Search Options” the title will be listed there correctly all have to do is hit “Search” and then it finds the correct movie as the first option. or it tries to search for _t00 that automadily gets added by make mkv.
It should be a little smart and no to ignore _t00 at the end of the file name.
And the Main problem if I click on a actor it will show like 2 movies that they are in. But I know I have lots of there movies. So then I search for the actor and it will list the actor twice with “in Movies” If i pick one half of the movies will be in there and if I hit the other then the other half of that actors movies will be in there.
I think this all started when I finally upgraded the library to use there agent and not IMDB. Because the update link was so annoying to look at!! Come on Plex you used to be so good.
Please show how you are naming and organizing your movies. Please show the full path to the file and which folder is added to the library.
If you follow Plex guidelines the movies will match 95+% of the time (if not more). You can add the IMDB/TMDB ID to the folder & file name which basically ensures a match.
I just tried optimizing the database but I still have two “mel gibson in movies” so thats annoying. As for the file format it could not be more simple folder Called “movies” then makemke creates a folder with the title of the movie then the .mkv file inside that folder. with the title of the movie. the only thing it does that I think is messing it up is makemkv adds a “_t00” to the end of the title. now I have always just left that and with the old movie agent it always found the movie. but with this new one often it never finds a movie sometime it shoes resutls with movies that have 00 in the title. Its just stupid it does not seam to know to ignore _t00 like the old one did.
I wonder if they can do anyting about it searching for t00. Its so annoying to have to rename the files after ripping them from blu ray and I never had to do this before. I have attach two screen shots to show what it does. all i have to do is hit search options then the title is correctly displayed “cast away” and then it matches. so i don’t get why it does not do that correctly the first time.
Look at the PowerRename tool in Microsoft PowerToys. It will easily search an entire directory structure and perform a match/replace on file names. Have it search for _t00 (or _01, etc) and replace it with nothing. It provides a preview before making any changes.
In the future, consider more closely following Plex’s naming recommendations. It takes very little time to rename a folder/file to movie_name (year), and it helps avoid problems correctly matching media.
plex is here to make our life easier. I’m a backend programmer and ignoring _t00 would take a programmer all of 5 minutes to implement and would save hundreds of hours of people manually renaming files every year. that’s the power of programing. I can write a program today and it can save my user thousands of hours of labor if I just said sorry I’m too lazy to write that code do it manually.
Using a standard file cleanup/renamer tool takes all of 20 seconds if your doing it regularly. Writing a reliable file name parser is far from easy, the more of these types of adjustments/special use cases that get added the harder it is to maintain the parser.
I don’t agree with that at all, one of the main jobs of the agent is to be as flexible with different file names as possible. The Plex employ seams to agree said he would look into it stop defending them. And most of all the old plex agent that used imdb handled the files with the _t00 no problem 100% of the time. So there new one should be at least as good as the one it replaces.
there might be but because plex has always matched them with _t00 before I never tried to figure that out. Now that I switched to there “better” agent after annoying prompting and a yellow thing all the time it would not match. I’m just trying to let them know so they can improve.
