I’ve been using Plex for years, and alongside Plex I’ve also been using Ember Media Manager to download trailers, metadata, posters, etc. And while Ember does a great job, I have to remember to manually run it every so often to capture new movies/shows and then scrape what I want. The most important reason I use Ember is to capture MPAA Ratings and make sure Plex is properly restricting media from my children profiles. Some of the media downloads with no rating, and sometimes Plex misses those.
So my question is, is there a better way? Has Plex come along far enough on metadata/trailers/etc. that I can stop using Ember, and just use features that are native to Plex Media Server? How much of the scraping can be automated? I.e. can it automatically add trailers, MPAA ratings, posters, etc?
Other (textual) metadata is not read by Plex from .nfo files. (Well, there is one exception: the IMDb ID [if present] is used by Plex to improve the matching).
Apart from that, in the past you may have been able to use the 3rd-party .nfo-importer agent with Plex. But that is no longer possible if you switched to the new “Plex Movie” agent.
And the legacy agents could be declared “deprecated” any time, so it is not a good option to go back to them.
Thanks for the info. I guess the main reason I thought Plex was using some of the Ember data is because a long time ago Plex was not property applying ratings, so adult movies were showing up on my Plex child profiles. I used Ember to scrape certification/MPAA ratings for the movies that didn’t have ratings and it fixed the problem. But if Plex is doing this natively I guess Ember is one less thing to worry about.
