Plex Movie IMDB ID not working for matching titles

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When I grab the ID from Rocking the Couch (2018) - IMDb which is tt7861698 on a Movie DB per this:

Tips

There are a couple of neat tricks you can use to help with matching.

  • When in a Movie library, you can enter the IMDB ID in the title and search for that. For instance, the IMDB entry for “Brave” is Brave (2012) - IMDb. If you enter tt1217209 as the search term, it will search for that exact movie to try to match.
  • For a TV Shows library, you can similarly enter the TVDB ID as the title to search for that particular show. “Archer (2009) has the URL Welcome - TheTVDB.com, so entering 110381 as the search term will search for that exact show.

It routinely doesn’t work. This is my first time filing because I’m just fed up with it at this point.

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I have no faith in the IMDB ID thing… But your issue with Rocking the Couch movie(documentary) is it doesn’t exist on themoviedb yet. It won’t find what it doesn’t have.

You can add to themoviedb or wait til someone adds it. BUT until then you will not be able to match(from online)

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Yeah, thats fine, but their exact tip is to use the IMDb ID so, it just doesn’t make sense that it constantly is breaking.

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Nope. It doesn’t.

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It is a documentary. The Plex Movie agent can only use genuine IMDb data for “cinema feature movies”. For everything else it tries to fall back on TMDB. But since this movie is not listed in TMDB yet, you won’t get a match.

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Thanks, can that be added to the bottom of this? https://support.plex.tv/articles/201018497-fix-match-match/

It would avoid a lot of frustration in a lot of members, I’m sure.

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