“The Boys (2019)” matched to “The Boys (1993)”. A Fix Match with the Year removed in the search finally found it at TVDB, but there were no actor images. Fix Match again with TMDB as the agent found everything.
Plex now has screwed up matching at TVDB so bad almost ALL new shows are a bust right out of the gate.
… and here’s the reason coming home to roost:
It was a bad idea then - and it’s still a bad idea, but now it’s getting worse… as bad ideas usually do.
If you want The Boys (2019) to match at TVDB the first time you’ll probably have to give it the wrong name of “The Boys”. Plex auto-defaults to the most recent version and that basically means Plex doesn’t know whether to scratch it’s @$$ or wind it’s watch at TVDB any more.
Early on when TVDB matches starting failing (because a correct name, no longer works) TVDB developers said: If Plex wants to match against TVDB properly, they’re going to have to follow the rules of the API.
Plex refuses to back down from a bad idea gone ballistic… so here we are.
Plex did all this chasing EPG data. How’s that Plex DVR working? Is everybody happy?
