I used to use plex but then switched to Emby. Now I’m back at Plex because some things bothered me at Emby. I have a few questions where I would like to know if there are any work arounds or how you do it or see it.
If something is indexed incorrectly, I can look directly at Emby for the IMDB or TMDB ID to match it correctly. That doesn’t work here, does it?
With Emby, I can have all the info written to an NFO file that has the same name as the media (usually *.mvk"). So if I ever have to re-index something, it doesn’t index it wrong again, but reads from the NFO File. Can Plex do the same?
If I tap on an actor on Emby, then I see everywhere where he has played, regardless of whether it’s a series, films, etc. With Plex, I only see it for the media library I clicked on, e.g. film or series. Can I put that together, in discovery it’s not even possible to click on a person, why?
With Emby I can set that collections are only created if I have at least 2 movies that belong to a collection. Is this also possible with Plex?
The only thing Plex will read from an NFO file is the IMDB number for movies. At one point, this only worked for movies (not TV) and only IMDB (not TMDB). As far as I know, that is still true, but I haven’t looked into it in a few years.
I don’t know, I’ll leave this for someone else to answer.
Yes, for movies only. When creating/editing a Movie library, on the Advanced tab is a setting:
You might want to look into a renamer like filebot or TinyMediaManager. I don’t use either one of those on a regular basis but I believe you can set those up to rename all your files with the TMDB or IMDB number automatically
If you’re thinking about doing this for your whole library you can do items in bulk very quickly, instead of looking all those numbers up and inputting them manually
Why? That’s a good question. There is a feature request about this subject
I use filebot but only for Shows not for movies. I’m Not sure if it makes sense to do it with this because of failures etc. It would be faster, but maybe the filebot makes mistakes and then it wouldn’t be good. I assigned everything correctly once in Emby and that’s all in the NFO files. Therefore I would like to compare the numbers with the NFO files.
In addition, I would like to change my file structure. Currently it looks like this:
Perfect thanks!
Can you tell me whats the different between the plex Scanner?
I use this one at the moment:
But there is also a Plex Series Scanner and Plex Movie Scanner.
All of this is superfluous. You have it in the title within {} which is how it’s done.
I have my main Plex server and a test Emby server running from the same media files. When properly named and structured, neither Plex nor Emby misidentify anything.
Top of my UHD bluray library section (all the rips) is /glock/media/uhd
– Be careful of that 001/ directory. Plex will look for a movie named “001”
[chuck@lizum tv.2011]$ cd /glock/media/uhd
[chuck@lizum uhd.2012]$ ll Batman\ Begins\ \(2005\)/
total 58267712
drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 46 Sep 2 2018 ./
drwxr-xr-x 299 chuck chuck 16384 Oct 21 16:45 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 59666113199 May 27 2018 Batman Begins (2005).mkv
[chuck@lizum uhd.2013]$
Nothing is misidentified.
I do use FileBot to rename everything to this template. To date, as I said above, nothing has ever missed.
I always copied the titles 1 to 1 from TMDb. However, the special characters are always removed and “:” replaced with “-”. For me, about 97-98% were indexed correctly, but some media were always wrong. That’s why I would now like to add the TMDB ID so I know what it is even without Plex, Emby etc.
There are also names that are simpler, and which ones there are several similar films from the same year. And then the media servers get problems. At least that’s what I could tell. I also had problems that I could no longer assign a film file myself. Hence the ID in the name.
With emby I was able to solve the problem by correctly mapping the file and then writing the TMDb and IMDB ID to the NFO file. If it was indexed again, then the NFO file was read again, so no problems.
It might also be worth mentioning that until now I had all the films in one pool and no subfolders etc.
Like this:
Ok, I just hope this works. Otherwise I have all the films in the root, and that’s a bit annoying for me. I have now decided to pack all the films in packs of 50. So 001 (50 items), 002 (50 items) etc.
I also use Filebot. However, so far only for series. I have now also put something together for films that seems to be the best for me. I would like the ID in the media file as well as the quality and the codec to be optional for me because I can classify everything better that way.
I got this code now for movies: {ny} {"{tmdb-$tmdbid}"}/{ny}{' CD'+pi}{subt} - {tmdbid} - {vf} - {vc}
/nas/movies/
Batman Begins (2005) {tmdb- tmdbid} [optional extra info here]/
Batman Begins (2005).ext
Batman Begins (2005).eng.srt (or other subtitles if needed)
_other extras as you wish_
Tell PMS to look at /nas/movies for the Movies library section.
