Recently Added Bug

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.41.0.8992 (Windows)
Player Version#: 1.101.0.223-94fa57b7 (Plex for Windows)
I recently added a movie [Strangers (2024)] that, despite being correctly titled, with correct metadata and an exact match to the title/year, was mismatched and grouped with a movie I had added some time back [The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)]. When I figured that out and asked Plex to split the movies, I was able to fix the match by selecting the match that should have been selected automatically since it matched EXACTLY (ahem). Unfortunately, the movie I added about an hour ago is NOT one of the recently added movies. Apparently, while it was incorrectly merged with something added a while back, it inherited that movie’s added date. Or something like that. Regardless, it is wrong.

Yes another reason to allow customers to choose to use the file date as the date added instead of some arbitrarily assigned timestamp, over which we, as curators of our collections, have absolutely no control over – but we absolutely should.

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Perform the Plex dance with the new movie.
Before re-adding it to your library, rename its folder/file to include the IMDb ID number.
The syntax for this is explained in here: https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/

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OK, that is a way around the bug. Do you know if anyone will bother to actually FIX the bug, though? After all, the recently added date should apply to the matched movie title, which was first added yesterday when I fixed the match. Anything else seems, um, contraindicated.

Also, I really, really, detest the concept of a folder for every file, which seems to be the recommended way to store media in movie libraries. OK, in this instance, there are a whopping TWO files, but only because the matcher is a bit of a moron and chooses something other than the exact match for the title (date) of the media.