I created 2 libraries: Movies in English and Movies in Spanish. When I created each, I setup US country for one and Spain for the other. Localized titles for just the spanish library. However, whatever I set in one library automatically gets inherited by the other one, so I can only set one set of options for both of them. Is that how it’s supposed to work or am I missing something? In my spanish movies folder I have movies with spanish titles obv, does setting up a different country messes up with imdb metadata or whatever? Thank you.
I reported a similar problem with different settings over a year ago. Essentially, if you have 2 or more Movie libraries, if you change the setting in one place, it changes the setting for all, as well as for the Plex Movie Agent.
Plex apparently thinks this is not a problem, but I heartily disagree.
Only the ‘language’ setting is per-library.
The options of the agents are only valid globally, i.e. they apply to both of your libraries:
@OttoKerner said:
Only the ‘language’ setting is per-library.
The options of the agents are only valid globally, i.e. they apply to both of your libraries:
Any options that are only valid globally should not be configurable via individual library settings. The natural assumption when a user sees these settings in the settings page for individual libraries is that their selections apply only to that library. The way Plex does this, where changing the setting in one library affects all libraries (of the same type), and the global setting, is confusing to the user, and is therefore rightly considered a usability bug. In usability design, this is called ‘natural mapping.’
As the originator of this thread demonstrated, there is a use case for wanting to set at least some of those settings on a per-library basis. Those settings should be available on a per-library basis, without interfering with other libraries.
Any settings that don’t make sense on a per-library basis should not be presented on a per-library basis. They should appear only in the global location - in this case, the Agent settings.
