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I have radarr setup to name my movies with this style structure:
Movie Title, The (2010)/The Movie Title (2010) Bluray-1080p
Up until fairly recently this has worked fine. Now anytime a move title starts with “the” and the “the” gets moved to the end of the title Plex tries to metadata match with a literal “Title, The” instead of “The Title” and doesn’t find anything. I manually have to change the search string and match the movie. Did a setting somewhere change? Do I need to redo my folder structure, making the folder structure itself a bit more unwieldy imo?
The database guys are always updating their api and they set the terms for matching to it.
In the past Plex tried to cater to every Bozo on the internet with a scene name - now it takes a proper name - as it should have been all along - and matches are generally working fine for those that follow the instructions.
You could ‘Fix Match’ for every item that has a ‘The’ in it.
Or you could just be absorbed into the vastness of a face-masked, infected society - and conform…
(with all the other drama - I conformed - long before any current drama could be added on)
Yeah, like I said mine was working fine until recently. I’ve already renamed all the folder to The Title now though. Thanks for the tip about the quality, I’ll do that as well.
I usually use a separate folder for each movie, but not always.
Sometimes I use a separate folder because I have separate artwork for a movie, but more likely it’s because I ripped my blu-ray and I have extras or trailers I ripped too, and I want them to be added to the server. Also, it’s easier to find something in the directory when it’s all folders, instead of having to check below the folder list for loose files, too.
Plex certainly does not require one-movie-per-folder. I used to have the John Wick movies in one folder, just three properly-named files in one folder named “John Wick movies” and the movies all showed up as separate entries on the Plex server. Same with Indiana Jones.
You can also do a folder of folders. I have one folder of Die Hard films that inside has five other folders, one for each film.
When I load a new movie and do a scan, I do see Plex show the movie as “Movie Title, The” briefly, but then when the metadata loads that goes away and it’s just the normal title.
