Plex Docs → Your Media
→ Naming & Organizing Your Movie Files
→ Fix Match / Match
- Use the Plex Movie scanner & agent.
- Follow Plex naming and organization requirements.
- Add the IMDB ID to the folder & movie name. Alternately, Fix Match using the IMDB ID instead of the movie name.
- Plex Dance the movie if you rename/reorganize.
On my server:
/movies
/La Belle et la Bête (1946)
/La Belle et la Bête (1946).mkv
Matches immediately.
Be sure to add the year to the movie folder & name.
There are at least twenty movies titled “Beauty and the Beast” (that’s when I stopped counting). The French name for several (I didn’t check all) is La Belle et la Bête.
If you do not include the year (or TMDB/IMDB ID) in the folder/file name, Plex will not know which one to match.
/movies
/Baise-Moi (2000)
/Baise-Moi (2000).mkv
The above matches immediately if Allow matching to explicit content is enabled for the library.
If Allow matching.. is not enabled, the movie matches to Fais-moi rêver (2000). However, performing a Fix Match and searching with tt0249380 (Baise-Moi’s IMDB ID) results in the correct match.
/movies
/Baise-Moi (2000) {imdb-tt0249380}
/Baise-Moi (2000) {imdb-tt0249380}.mkv
Adding the IMDB ID matches immediately even if Allow matching to explicit content is disabled.
