Server Version#: plexmediaserver/now 1.29.1.6316-f4cdfea9c amd64 [installed,local]
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Hello! I have quite a sizable library growing of movies. The filenames are titled after the movie titles, with conflicts resolved with adding the year afterwards. This typically works great.
However, lately Plex has been deciding to merge new movies into existing ones, and it’s not even close. Just a moment ago I ripped steven king’s Silver Bullet, and it merged it into James Bond’s Skyfall? How in the world would it choose Skyfall over the actual titled film Silver Bullet, is beyond me. But regardless, it’s happening more and more lately and I wonder if there’s a way to shut it off?
I almost never need this functionality so I would be happy to re-enable it if I ever come across more two-parters. Thanks for any input!
Which log would that be in? I just have taken to downloading the logs from the UI and searching for the title of the filename to fix these dupes, so I have them handy.
The filenames for this instance were:
Silver Bullet.mkv
Bond, James #25 - Skyfall.mkv
I guess the Bond flick isn’t named great cuz’ I have it sorted by Bond and release order, but it still has nothing even implying “Silver Bullet”, which was the new title being added. Clearly there is nothing more succint that I could have named it other than just “Silver Bullet.mkv”
I guess a high level option would be if there was a way to always do the Match process on new files instead of having it throw a dart the first time then have the user fix it afterwards, does that exist?
Unfortunately using plex’s collection stuff doesn’t work in other apps, I have the files named to sort them in a listing because that’s important to me in other consumption vehicles.
I just really want to do the new files manually, if i could? Is there any way to scan for new files but have input into the process? Or is the filename on disk the absolute only way that Plex infers the content?
The only other alternative I can think of would be to add the imdb tag number to each movie in curly brackets like this
Chuck can correct me if I’m wrong but I think that number supersedes the naming and date
Doing that for just James Bond movies might be ok, but doing it for everything you add could get old quick
There are renaming tools like filebot and TinyMediaManager that add that number automatically so you don’t have to do it manually every time you add something
Yeah, and then that’d show up in the file listings in other apps that I use around the house too. Unfortunately the naming convention I have going is feeding a few things / different player software and platforms beside plex (Though plex is usually my favorite!) - I just think it’s awfully bold to jump to the conclusion of adding Pt.2’s which aren’t labeled as such on very unrelated films lol.
I guess I’ll just deal with it, since I have the corrective workflow down. The first couple times scanning thousands of titles looking for one that had a “Split” option was a chore! haha
I appreciate all the help by the way, thanks for responding. I was just hoping it wasn’t all keyed just off the filename or I could somehow get influence into that process, but it doesn’t sound like it.
