Plex Movie goes to IMDB - notorious for getting it WRONG, but primarily this agent is the replacement for Freebase and the place PPers get those valuable and repeating 240p Movie Trailers automatically. Plex Movie is correctly shown in the top spot under it’s tab and the BEST place for Local Media Assets is strapped down nekked in the desert over an ant hill, but there are a few things it’s needed for so leave it checked, but put it at the bottom of every Agent List you can find if you ever want to use an MP4/M4V file for as long as you live.
The Movie Database - is not immune to the idiot contributors (I’m one of them), but some of us actually do a little bit of research before adding one, and also offer a correct ‘alternate’ title or release year when the previous idiot didn’t bother to check - or only offered the Czech Release info. TMDB should be atop the list under it’s tab with LMA demoted to digging latrines with a plastic teaspoon.
I guess the idea is that if one doesn’t have it the other one will (might), but in conflicting circumstances or for no reason at all, occasionally you will have to fix match. Out of 10s of Thousands of items I have had to fix match about 8 times.
In the ‘Shows’ section, TVDB is basically the ONLY TV Database so, of course, that wants to be at the top with LMA, again and always at the bottom.
The thing is called simply:
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/54741-the-birth-of-big-air
The Birth of Big Air (2010).xxx
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/300671-13-hours-the-secret-soldiers-of-benghazi
13 Hours The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016).xxx
If renaming/restructuring and Refreshing doesn’t work - The Plex Dance® will.
The Plex Dance®:
- remove show/movie from library
- update library
- empty trash
- clean bundles
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles - bring names and structures into compliance, fiddle with LMA or Agent priorities, etc
- replace corrected show/movie into library
- update library
All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.
The way you get these things right the first time (or fix your entire library in 5 seconds later) is with FileBot (link in my signature). FileBot goes to the appropriate database armed with the original file name failure and either sniffs it out, or offers some to choose from - then names it perfectly for Plex in mili-seconds. There is virtually no guesswork. It’s been to the database and got the name they used.
Unfortunately this is a giant slice of Fail Cake when FileBot goes to TVDB and correctly matches ‘Doctor Who’ for instance, then you find out Plex has planted a funny little bomb in the ‘Alternate Versions’ process by defaulting all calls for Doctor Who to the latest ‘Version’ - Doctor Who (2009).
FileBot can only do what it’s told and ‘Doctor Who’ is the name TVDB uses for the classic episodes, so you have to go to TVDB yourself, look around and find the year the Doc first came out - (1963) - then stick that manually into the show folder name thusly; Doctor Who (1963).
Thanks Plex - that was a great thing you came up with there and we really appreciate it. Destroying the efforts of the #1 Plex Companion when it comes to naming TV Shows with your ONLY TV Show Database was a brilliant move only you could have dreamed up.
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=76107&lid=7
See what I mean?
Anywho, that’s about all of that for now, but I will ■■■■■ about it later and often.
