Show/Movie auto match override in local media assets

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Apologies if already suggested, didn’t see this in my search but I may have used incorrect terms.

For those of us with multiple Plex servers and large libraries, occasionally Plex will mismatch a show/movie, requiring us to do a manual correction on each server.

My thought was a feature in which, if local media assets agent is on, it can look for an id.txt file in the root of the movie or show folder. Within that file can be something like tmdb=12345, IMDb=12345 or tvdb=12345. If this file exists, it would override plex’s auto match result and use this ID instead.

Or maybe this exists already and I’m dumb. :slight_smile:
Thoughts?

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For movies;
First folder structure must be one movie folder with that movie in it. plus any extras…
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create a text file (notepad) with the extension of .nfo…
I use the movie name for the file name.

in that file place the address of the IMDB movie on the very first line.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6413868/

just copy it right from the address bar…

save it with the movie, when Plex scans the folder it should find it.

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Are you sure you’re not using a plugin like XBMC importer? Plex doesn’t have native nfo support built-in. The Plex scanner uses filenames, not nfo files, to match movies.

Along that same line, what you’re describing edrock is nfo support, such as the type of nfo files software such as Kodi can read.

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I am using the XBMC importer now But!

Before that, I used to do what I described above and it worked. Things may have changed since then, don’t know, Plex would need to comment on it since I can’t test it.

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