No Metadata found in Agents for Some Particular Foreign Movies

General Discussions
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Trying to populate this foreign film meta data. Usually, most of these movies are found with Plex Movie or Movie Database – but it’s not finding it.

For every 9 movies, 1 movie is not found. Mostly with these foreign (Tamil) movies.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

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Can’t find it here:
https://www.themoviedb.org/ <— TMDB
or here:
http://www.imdb.com/ <— Plex Movie
go here:
https://www.themoviedb.org/
Join up and start contributing to the database
or
Begin Hand Editing.

Perhaps there’s a Foreign/off the wall/obscure/rare/etc Agent you could install, and someone else may be able to aim you there, but I am unaware of such a beast. If TMDB doesn’t have something I’m looking for - I’m already adding it. Been a contributing member for ages.

Note: The more research you do, the more accurate your information, the better contributing member you will become. I’m always fixing half-assed attempts by other members who are ‘just not that into it’. If you’re going to contribute - be into it.

:slight_smile:

Note 2: Textual data (descriptions. release years, actors, directors, producers, etc) will be available almost instantly, but poster images take a few days. Best to have one of those to use locally in that case.

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For foreign films especially, sometimes the Meta data is found, which is great by Movie DB – but the poster isn’t there. So I do manually add it to Plex with a URL link (within my server).

So for instance, after you shared the Movie DB website, I see that it does find the movie:

Would you suggest me to make an account and then fill out that information? How does / When does that info get spit back to Plex?

Thanks for taking time to answer! I am willing to contribute and be into it. Just looking for help from veteran Plex users on this forum.

Thanks!

4

Joining is as easy as creating a user name and providing a valid email address.

As I said - Text data is available pretty much instantly, but poster images take a few days.

5

I did join – and I did fix what I could.

Plex still doesn’t find the correct match from the MovieDB…so it is not instant.

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@clearheatvision said:
I did join – and I did fix what I could.

Plex still doesn’t find the correct match from the MovieDB…so it is not instant.

Try the old…:

The Plex Dance®:

  1. remove show/movie from library
  2. update library
  3. empty trash
  4. clean bundles
    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles
  5. bring names and structures into compliance/ or the ultimate bundle reboot operation
  6. replace corrected show/movie into library
  7. update library

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.

That old 15 year old bug about hanging on to a bundle still requires a few dance steps…
(unless they’ve changed their policies at TMDB - and I haven’t noticed)

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For those wondering about the solution to my original question, everything @JuiceWSA has said solved my problem.

Thanks for following up constantly, @JuiceWSA !