Server Version#: 1.21.0.3616 (Ubuntu 18.04) Scanner: Plex Movie Agent: Plex Movie I recently switched to the new non-legacy Plex Movie agent/scanner and noticed that when I scan via the command line, the movie is detected and matched but not all the metadata is populated. Specifically the cast in…

I feel like I’ve had problems when trying to combine -r with -s, or -r with -d. Does it work if you first scan, and then use -r with -o and the specific item ID? I’ve moved to using the URL commands or the python PlexAPI whenever possible. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201638786-plex-media-se…

Thanks for the feedback Volts! It does seem like maybe the -r part is not being invoked in my original command. I tired invoking it via the item ID using /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Scanner -r -o 71835 and I get the following error: ****** PLEX MEDIA SCANNER CRASHED, CRASH REPORT WRITTEN:…

Yeah I set the following environmental variables before running any commands export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver export PLEX_MEDIA_SERVER_APPLICATION_SUPPORT_DIR=/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support I’d looked into the web API in the past but at the time it could not s…

I think you still need to specify the section, even when giving an item ID. This works for me to force a metadata refresh: /usr/local/share/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Scanner -c 54 -o 153625 -rx

Good catch! It works for me when I specify the section and also use the -x option, which also seems to be required: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Scanner -c 2 -o 71835 -rx It just seems to be a bit broken when invoked with the -s -d options like you originally suspected

It even gets an initial “Summary” when scanning with -s, and then updates it after the second command with -rx. Maybe the logic just uses two passes. First to match & identify the movie, getting Title and Summary. And then a second call for “full” metadata. At first I thought you could do this, but…

Yeah I noticed the same when I used -rx with the -s -d options. It definitely seems to invoke a full library scan. I agree that at the moment the options seem incompatible but I’ve been using the same command (without the -x option) for the past three years without issue. I only started having the i…

@Volts Thanks for the suggestion regarding giving the URL command a second look. Glad they finally added individual directory scanning to that and after a bit of trial and error I was able to use the following command to scan individual movie directories AND it picks up all of the metadata curl "ht…

Command line scanner doesn't import cast or ratings anymore

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

Volts November 30, 2020, 7:39am 4

Many of the Plex executables want a couple of environment variables set before they’ll run; are you doing that?

See the start.sh script that comes with Plex. Or see comments in this thread:

Media scanner cli is crashing [fixed] - needed env variable set

But also, really, consider using the web requests API or the Python PlexAPI.

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