Hi,
For certain movies Plex is scraping the wrong movie years. I have the correct year stored in the file name and in local nfo files, yet it still will not scrape the correct year. One such movie is Spectre. It shows it as 2005 vs 2015. Anyone else noticing this?
Please show the actual file name. Do also check for embedded meta tags, if it is a MP4.
Hi,
Here is a screen grab of the movie file. There is no embedded tags in the mkv file, and the nfo file is also correct.
All of my movies follow this naming scheme, but only just a few seem to be showing the incorrect movie year, so evidently it is not the the movie naming. If I also manually match the movie in Plex Web, it will still show the wrong year.
Which number appears in the nfo file after tt (the IMDb ID)?
Replace the dot after the closing parenthesis with a space.
I see tt2379713
Replacing the dot with a space didn’t change anything tho.
OK, that ID is the correct one.
Which metadata agent are you using as your default agent ?
Did you install any additional agents? (OMDB etc.)
Did you replace the file at some time in the past? (upgrade quality etc)
May I see the Plex XML info of this movie?
Experiment:
Drag the line ‘Local Media Assets’ downwards, so it sits below of ‘Plex Movie’.
Then Refresh Metadata.
That fixed it! Any thoughts tho on why that is… maybe a bug in the Local Media Assets scraper?
I initially made that the first agent because when I add a movie, all of the local nfo and image assets are already beside the movie.
I can only assume that you once had a MP4 file for this movie, which had incorrectly embedded meta data.
As a test I switched the local agent back to the top and rescanned the metadata for the whole library. It changed it back to 2005. Perhaps there is a bug in the local scanner?
I have never seen it scraping an incorrect year from a mkv file.
It shouldn’t scrape anything from MKVs at all.
Although I remember a user swearing, that it does indeed.
If it does read something from MKV files, then we must find out what it reads.
Grab MKVtoolnix
and drag the mkv file into it.
Make a screenshot of the MKVtoolnix program window.
If, as suggested, there was previously an MP4 file for that movie with incorrect embedded metadata you may need to use the “Clean Bundles” option before rescanning metadata otherwise that data may be cached (I had a similar issue trying to get rid of collections caused by Album tags in metadata).
Hello, here is the screen grab as requested. I looked thru the header editor as well and did not see anything abnormal. I also searched thru the local nfo file for “2005”, but nothing there either. Also this movie was never an mp4, as I always use mkv containers when ripping.
Take a look at the lower, left hand side of the screenshot.
There is a line titled ‘Global Tags’.
Empty the checkbox in front of it, then press ‘Start Multiplexing’
Now perform the Plex Dance again, but when it comes to finally restoring the movie file, use the version you created with MKVtoolnix - the one without those Global Tags.
I have not had a chance to try your suggestion yet, but those tags are added by Handbrake and are on every movie in the collection. But could be bad tags I suppose. I’ll try this soon.
