Why can't Plex distinguish between movies that have the same name but are named correctly with the year in the filename?

[JuiceWSA]

Go to:
Settings/Agents
Drag Local Media Assets to the bottom of every active Agent list under Movies and Shows Thusly:

(Red is where it is now - Green is where it needs to be - do NOT disable LMA - ur gonna need it, just not where it is)

Plex is reacting to embedded and bogus info in the Title Field of your MP4/M4V file and after 140 years Plex still hasn’t learned the default location of LMA is - WRONG.

You’ll have to hack that mistake by fixing it for them.

You may need to Plex Dance afterwards - if after moving LMA for all Agents under TV and Movies - Refresh Metadata does nothing.

All Steps, In Order, Exactly as described (or it simply won’t work):

The Plex Dance ™

The purpose of this is to remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item that Plex usually keeps. This helps when you want to “start from scratch” for particular item move all files for the media item out of the directory your Library is looking at, so Plex will not “see” it anymore scan the library library (to detect changes) empty trash clean bundles (in the menu next to server name, when accessed under ‘More’. Or alternatively under Settings - [server name] - Manage - Troubleshooting.…