Hi all, when recording live TV shows, I have a few annoying ones that once recorded don’t display the metadata that shows in the guide. These shows are not American shows and there are no online data sources for them. Any ideas how I solve this? Perhaps there’s a way of linking the xml guide to a new TVshow on the TVDB or something. Any ideas?
I would have thought Plex would save the metadata alongside the recording…
Thanks.
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Record them into a library which has been set to “Personal Media” as agent.
If you have a regular library (i.e. one which has one of the online metadata agents as default), it will at some point try to “match” the recording to a known movie or show.
Avoid triggering “Refresh Metadata” on this library or this recording.
Don’t trigger Match/Unmatch/Fix Match on it either.
That way the metadata in the EPG are shown on the recorded item.
Keep in mind that you need 2 such libraries: one for one-off items (i.e. movies) and one for episodic items (i.e. tv shows).
Ultimately, though these metadata are not permanent. As soon as you do one of the above actions, or movie the recorded file to a different storage location, the metadata may get lost.
Thanks, I have got basic poster and fanart set manually and is working, my gripe is that the metadata is not saved alongside the episodes. So for example, I record locally made documentaries, but there is no way to know what is in each episode. Which makes it impossible to know what I’m watching. The season is just the year and the episodes just increment. Alongside each of these it should be saving it’s own poster which is in the broadcasted or downloaded xml guide and description of the show (at this level these are easy to do manually myself and I have), however it should also though save a description of each episode alongside each episode so that I don’t have to go to the guide every day and add the description - otherwise this becomes impossible to manage. I have thousands of these non-de scripted episodes which now can never be fixed… Does anyone know a way of doing this properly for future episodes? It should include a date and a description. Thanks.
