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I’ve recently merged my 4K library in with my existing 1080p library and as such I have every film that I have in both qualities listed twice. I’ve gone through and manually merged these together, which took quite a while as I have well over 4000 1080p films and about 800 in 4K. Now when I add 4K films where I already have the 1080p version I have to go find them and manually merge them.
Is there any way for this to be automatic? Given the large number of films I have it’s pretty tedious to go through and do this each time I add something so I’m hoping there is a better way to do this.
Normally a simple rescan of the library should do the trick. If not, try a refresh all metadata. But if the movies are in double they really should just merge automatically in Plex.
Yeah, that’s definitely not happening - I’m very, very hesitant to do a full metadata refresh, not only do I have a lot of content I’ve customized and editing a huge amount of it manually that I don’t want to risk losing.
So I guess the question is - bug or feature? Am I right that it shouldn’t matter that the files are in separate directories, right? My 4K movies are in a separate directory on the filesystem than the 1080p films but to be clear they are in one large library.
Well if you did lot of edits on the the same movie with different edits from 4K to 1080p that would explain why they don’t merge I guess.
Personally I prefer to keep them in separate libraries (4K and 1080p movies) so I can share or not with my friends and family depending on their needs and internet speed.
This article suggests they be in the same location. That’s how I have mine, but currently when I add both at the same time, the 1080p version matches correctly, but the 4k version doesn’t auto-match. Not sure if Refresh Metadata fixes it, but right now I manually fix match.
Thanks for the link - with as many movies as I have I really want to keep them separate - in fact I even keep my 1080p films in separate genre categories as I don’t want one giant directory with 4000+ files in it on my array. By breaking it up by genre it makes backing things up much easier. I have a 64TB array with each of the genre folders under 8GB each (save for my 4K stuff which is about double that) - that way I can just backup each genre to an individual 8GB drive. While my array is set for RAID6 I’m paranoid that I’m going to lose the years of time I’ve spent downloading and curating my collection.
I guess I’ll just deal with it and do it manually - I just added 2 4K films tonight, that I already had (but had NOT modified the metadata on) and they still didn’t match. Not the biggest issue in the world.
