I have two plex servers, on the same network, which point to the same NAS and they are using the default library settings in terms of where they should grab movie info. Some movies have different cover art. One plex server is 18 months old and one plex server is less than a week old. It doesn’t bother me that the movie poster art doesn’t match, I’m just curious why that is.
Also, the movie count for both movie libraries is off by two, I’m not sure how to determine which two movies are missing from one server, since the main directory both servers point to is the same directory.
I have a number of servers and getting posters to match even though the system are all the same age was impossible. Different servers would download posters seemed random. I fixed that by using TMM to manage the movies, adding the posters to the movie/show folders and creating the NFO files. Plex then uses the XBMCnfoMoviesImporter to collect the NFO metadata.
One of the larger issues was the fact that the movie libraries would never match between servers. Sometimes it would be duplicates but not always… Anyway I’m not sure why. I know it still is happening.
Now the new scanner and agent that Plex is currently working on may fix that and other issues. Have to wait and see.
Edit: XBMCnfoTVImporter is the agent to load NFO files for the shows.
This was the first thing I thought of, as well (that the most recent server was getting updated images), but I didn’t want to assume that because I assumed that Plex periodically checked for updated metadata. I realize that scanning for updated metadata may not be all that important since the movie information doesn’t change (aside from posters, I suppose). Of course I could be missing something obvious, maybe there is a reason to have the metadata updated, periodically.
As far as the movie number not matching, I don’t think they are duplicates, but that is a good place to look, I don’t plan on going line by line to see which movies are missing.
Load the media… TMM gets the metadata and posters…
I choose what I want, if I don’t like something I change it and it stays that way.
It creates the NFO and names the files the way I want.
When done it moves it to Plex.
Plex scans it and it’s the way I set it up.
I have this same experience on both a Shield server (main) and a Windows server (backup). Both are pointing to the same storage, but posters and backgrounds are different when the libraries are scanned, even with the same metadata agents selected. I always wondered why this was.
I did nothing but wait and it seems that the movie count issue is now fixed, both plex servers show the same count.
I also noticed another poster that didn’t match on both servers, I ran a manual metadata refresh from each server (on the respective poster that was not the same) and they both refreshed with their original posters (non-matching). This doesn’t really bother me since it is on a very limited number of movies (for now), it just seems odd that even with a manual refresh it isn’t using the same cover art with all other sources being the same. With that being said, I was able to get another mis-matched poster to update when a manual metadata scan was ran. Again, odd that it worked for one and not the other.
