Agent and Scanner selection messing with my movie Libary and driving me insane

[ar1978]

Server Version 1.25.2.5319
Windows 10 PC
Thecus N5200 NAS (Movie files on NAS - 2339)

Hello,

I was hoping you guys might be able to help me with an issue I am having with my libraries.

I am running a small Windows 10 PC with Plex Server Version 1.25.2.5319.

It’s connected to an old Thecus NAS which is also on my home network.

The issue I am having is quite a few of my movies are not showing up when I use the Plex Movie Scanner and Agent.

I know the main reason for this would usually be related to how your files were named and structured but I don’t feel I am doing anything wrong here - please see the attached as an example.

I have created two library’s both pointing to the same location on my NAS.

Movies Library 1 - //192.168.1.100/media/movies
2263 items
Scanner - Plex Video Scanner
Agent - The Movie Database

After messing with scanners and agents Movie Library 1 is the best I can do and missing under 100 files (movies) but on the legacy scanner.

Movies Library 2 - //192.168.1.100/media/movies
??? items
Scanner - Plex Movie
Agent - Plex Movie

But with Movie Libary 2, I don’t know what’s going on! I’m using default settings for everything but it’s constantly refreshing and fluctuating the total amount of movies. Its never consistent and sometimes as low as 700 (ish) total movies

Any ideas? It’s driving me mental ! Thank you !

Plex Media Server Logs_2021-12-24_10-14-31.zip (6.1 MB)

[anon5074910]

Three quick things…

1. Putting everything in a flat folder structure is not advised. Put everything in dedicated folders. It’s helps the matching and overall performance of the scanner.
2. As you have everything in a flat structure having - in the naming will cause problems as stuff after the - is ignored for matching. I’d bet all the mission impossible movies are combined due to your naming of things.
3. Pro tip is to add id tags from imdb or tmdb in {} which will help plex match correctly. Example Mission Impossible (1996) {tmdb-954} as the folder name with the movie inside the folder.

BTW… I’d also recommend using the Plex Movie scanner and agent. This is the new modern metadata scanner while the others are old legacy scanners and not as good and likely to be removed at some point in the future.

[ar1978]

Hey - Thanks for this I really appreciate it.

1 - Ok. Got you.
2 - Make’s sense and an easy change.
3 - Ok thanks. I’ll give that a try.

Weird thing is that with the legacy scanners everything seems for be pretty much ok. It’s the new Plex Movie ones that are causing issues in the libably.

QQ - don’t suppose you know of a way to automate the generation of a folder for each film ?

thank you

[Xhaka]

You can have a look at an app called Filebot.
I haven’t used it for years but it does work well.

Sadly on Windows it’s not free.
But it has several naming regimes on of which is Plex friendly.

Oh and up the Gooners.

[anon5074910]

Yeap, its pretty easy to automate. Take a look at …

Windows:

Best Folder Structure For Fastest Library Scan?

I put 6000+ movies in a unique folder - in a week or so. It would have taken a few months by hand Here’s a faster way… took less than 5 minutes for 4,500 movies. Script is below the video. [batch plex] @echo off for %%i in (*) do ( if not “%%~ni” == “organize” ( md “%%~ni” && move “%%~i” “%%~ni” ) )

Linux:

Best Folder Structure For Fastest Library Scan?

Looks like you got it sorted. I’m on linux so when I done it I used a basic for loop using the following format: for f in *.mp4; do echo "${f%.mp4}"; mkdir "${f%.mp4}"; mv "${f%.mp4}".* "${f%.mp4}"; done This would take the name of each mp4 file in a folder, strip the .mp4 part of the name, create a folder with the name and then move it and any other files like srt with the same name into that folder. Took approx 5-10 minutes on my NAS when I done at the time.

I think FileBot can do it also but I’ve never used it myself as I have my own scripts to name stuff.

[dbirch]

I use the v3 of tiny movie manager, and if you are “missing” videos, check for plex duplicates.

[ar1978]

I have restructured my files and used tiny media manager for my metadata and this seems to have resolved the problem.

thank you very much for all your help.