I think I have found a bug in Plex matching
Had: The Terminal (2004).mkv
Added: Terminal (2018).mkv
Plex decided that this movie was NOT from 2018, but was the same movie as The Terminal.
I had to split them up and match it manually. As a consequence the added date for the new movie was the same as the old movie. When I have split them apart it should use the added date that I actually added it to Plex.
This seems like a bug in Plex matching.
- It mached wrong
- It kept the wrong added date after splitting it up
@trumpy81 said:
To correct that, go to the Terminal (2018) file and perform a Fix Match. In the Fix Match dialogue, click on Search Options and then make sure the title is correct, remove the year and then under Agent select The Movie Database as the source. Now click on Search.
Select the appropriate match when they are returned, it should have a match rating of 90% or so. Now your two files should have different identifiers and should not be re-grouped at all.
One would think that would fix the problem, but it doesn’t. The “identity” will be different, but Plex insists that the added date is the same, even when you assign a different agent to match it. I reported the same problem here:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/299252/movie-mismatch-as-duplicate-corrected-but-stubbornly-keeps-original-added-at-date
It’s one of those glitches that I suspect will be fixed later rather than sooner
@DJViking said:
Added: Terminal (2018).mkv
Did it have this exact file name when you added it the first time?
If you only renamed it later, you might have to perform the Plex Dance
@OttoKerner said:
@DJViking said:
Added: Terminal (2018).mkv
Did it have this exact file name when you added it the first time?
If you only renamed it later, you might have to perform the Plex Dance
The new media did not have the same file name. No “The” prefix and different Year.
What perplexes me is why Plex thought it was the same movie. The title was somewhat similar, but it should have seen the Year and found it different.
The Plex Dance did not work to fix it. It continues to match “Terminal (2018)” with “The Terminal (2004)”, which I cannot fathom.
@DJViking said:
The new media did not have the same file name. No “The” prefix and different Year.
I meant: was the file Terminal (2018).mkv named exactly like that when you added it initially into Plex? Or did you rename it only later, when it was mismatched by Plex?
What perplexes me is why Plex thought it was the same movie. The title was somewhat similar, but it should have seen the Year and found it different.
Do you use a subfolder per-movie or are all your movie files in one folder, directly beside each other?
It was named slightly different. I had included some encoding HEVC, resolution in the file name. When it first matched wrong I changed the file name, moved the movie out, recanned, moved it back in and rescanned, but still the same problem.
/storage/storage1/Movies/The Terminal (2004).mkv
/storage/storage2/Movies/Terminal (2018)/Terminal (2018).mkv
They where on different drives.
@DJViking said:
When it first matched wrong I changed the file name, moved the movie out, recanned, moved it back in and rescanned
That would have been of no use, because the file as such was unchanged.
Only the full Plex Dance has a chance fo achieving a difference.
/storage/storage1/Movies/The Terminal (2004).mkv
/storage/storage2/Movies/Terminal (2018)/Terminal (2018).mkv
Add a text file into the folder /storage/storage2/Movies/Terminal (2018)/
with the content
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4463816
and with the file name Terminal (2018).nfo
Then perform the Plex Dance again.
I’d be very interested in the outcome.
(please don’t use Microsoft Word or similar text processors. Just a basic text editor)
@OttoKerner said:
@DJViking said:
When it first matched wrong I changed the file name, moved the movie out, recanned, moved it back in and rescanned
That would have been of no use, because the file as such was unchanged.
Only the full Plex Dance has a chance fo achieving a difference.
/storage/storage1/Movies/The Terminal (2004).mkv
/storage/storage2/Movies/Terminal (2018)/Terminal (2018).mkv
Add a text file into the folder /storage/storage2/Movies/Terminal (2018)/
with the content
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4463816
and with the file name Terminal (2018).nfo
Then perform the Plex Dance again.
I’d be very interested in the outcome.
(please don’t use Microsoft Word or similar text processors. Just a basic text editor)
That worked. The first Plex Dance I did was unsuccessful, but adding the nfo file seems do to the trick.
