Fix match only shows plex agent now and I didn’t change anything. How do I fix this and get imbd back
Plex Documentation → Working With Your Media → Fix Match / Match
When using the new Plex Movie agent/scanner that is the only choice.
However, you can use the IMDB ID in the Title field to search for a match. You may need to leave the year blank for best results.
Hi, may I ask a silly question? Why is the Plex Agent the only one available now? Now I have to do additional steps i.e. search IMDB for the title reference number to fix matches - even though my naming convention is the same. Why were the other search options removed? Just asking. I love Plex. Thanks
The old agents are still there if you want to use them. You can edit the library and choose them instead of the new scanner/agent. Also see the Scanners & Agents section of the Plex documentation. Note that the old agents are not getting any bug fixes or new features. Also, they will go away at some yet to be announced date.
My experience with the new movie and TV agent has been very positive, with minimal need to use fix match. If you follow Plex naming and organization guidelines the majority of your media should match w/o issue (my experience, anyway).
There are always a few movies or shows that give Plex fits, even with the old agents. For example, Dr. Who, Loony Tunes cartoons, and some anime shows. Also some movie franchises with multiple, similar names for each release. However, the new agents support adding the IMDB/TMDB/TVDB IDs to the folder & file names. This generally takes care of any matching issues.
Great, thanks so much. Appreciate it 
It’s an extra step but I use Tiny Media Manager to manage/rename my files. I do wish Plex had something better built in, at least for PlexPass users or something. If you do try TMM, I would suggest you use V3.
I just looked at TMM. It looks interesting, and I’d like to check it out. But why do you recommend v3 over the more modern v4? Their site isn’t very clear on if there is an advantage to using the older version. I can read the “differences between v3 and v4” article either way, as v3 having all these features (such as better integration with Plex), or v4 having them. I’m leaning towards the latter, as it seems strange that they’d remove built-in JRE for a new version, requiring Java, but I don’t want to make that assumption on my own without more data, especially as you recommend using the older version instead.
Bottom line for me is that V4 has a trial period and then it requires a yearly fee. V3 has no trial period and no yearly fee. I would have no problem with upgrading to V4 if I could pay a 1 time fee and have TMM forever. However, I’m not into paying yearly subscription fees.
I have my Plex library on a Synology NAS, accessible via a mapped network drive, divided into folders (movies, TV Series, etc) and then run TMM from my desktop. I just point it towards my library on the network drive and it works fine.
Many folks use FileBot to rename files. It has yearly subscription and lifetime purchase plans.
If you’re using a Windows machine, take a look at PowerToys from Microsoft (free). The PowerRename module makes it easy to rename via pattern matches and regular expressions. Makes it easy to do things like add a year to folder/file names, substitute spaces for periods, change 0x01 to s00e01, etc. Not in the same league as FileBot or Tiny Media Manager, but the price is right.
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