Server Version#: 1.42.1.10060 Please stop the commercial skipper from rescanning the same files, with no ad markers, repeatedly. If it hasn’t found any ads previously, why on earth would it need to scan the same files again, night after night? Why would there be a different outcome if the scanner a…

The correct way is to change the Library Advanced setting “Ad detection” to “For recorded items” but it sounds like you have additional problems. What do you have selected for “Scanner” and “Agent” on the Library Advanced page. Till the batch processor records a success it will keep trying the ite…

the library is not Plex’s DVR, but the recordings from my external satellite box folder shared to its own library. settings are: Plex Video Files Scanner, Personal Media and Ad detection: For all items

[image] mr_trebus: Ad detection: For all items As described above, change to Disabled or For recorded items and Plex Dance the media.

sorry, but I’m not sure what that achieves. Disabled/For recorded items then doesn’t scan this library for ads, either during maintenance (when re-enabled) or during a manual Analyze, at all.

Not supported by Plex then and you want to make a feature suggestion. There is a reason that the DVR records to a temporary folder until the show is complete and then moves the file to either a TV Shows Library or Movie Library. Otherwise Plex would incorrectly detect the length of the show which …

I don’t remove ads, just have the markers in the xml after scanning to skip. There may be something in having the new recording in an intermediate library with ad scanning enabled and then move it to this library post-scan. Gonna give that a try, cheers.

nah, doesn’t work - metadata stays with original file in db and Plex doesn’t realise it applies to the file copied to the target library. would need something like this: [image] [Feature Request] Moving media between libraries without losing metadata using UI Feature Sugges…

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As described above, change to Disabled or For recorded items and Plex Dance the media.

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