Server Version#: 1.28.2.6151
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I’ve been putting off upgrading to the new library type for ages, and I’m trying to read up on how to best do it. Are there any resources out there to help?
I only have one single library, a movie library with something like 3000 titles. The issue is that pretty much all of them are customized in one way or another. I’ve added these films one by one, selected or uploaded custom posters (I’ve used the default on maybe 10% of them), edited metadata and generally made the library to look and act the way I wanted. I also have tons of films that will never be matched with anything. Shorts, rare and generally unknown films, 16 mm-transfers of films that were never officially released, films I’ve produced myself, etc. Never got any of the old agents to properly respond to correct file names either. I started this process years ago, and since I was adding everything one by one, manually matching and/or manually entering metadata was fine by me.
Upgrading my movie library is absolutely terrifying.
Is there any way to at least download and preserve all the posters and the metadata to some sort of easily readable external database, in case I have to manually edit every damn film all over again?
You can install a test Plex Media Server with a half dozen films and custom metadata.
You can observe how the test server responds to changing the agent, refreshing and scheduled tasks.
That way your main server is untouched.
Here’s a couple of good articles you may not have seen:
Yeah, I’ve read both those articles. I had some Plex misbehavior a couple of years back, so I’ve restored from backup in the past.
You’re saying essentially install the backup copy (for instance on another device), and just do a test run, if I understand you correctly.
I’m guessing it wouldn’t be possible to make a new library with just a few movies, since new libraries must be of the new kind, right?
I’ll do a test for sure, but my issue now is more that I lack information on how this process actually works. Based on the threads I’ve read about the subject, the whole thing is extremely buggy, and it seems like the metadata refresh might happen no matter what you tell Plex to do. In this case, I know for a fact that a substantial portion of my titles will get changed (unless the behavior has changed substantially of late.)
If, however, there is a way to upgrade to the new agent without doing anything at all to the existing titles, which in theory should be entirely possible, I’d like to read some resources detailing it.
I guess I’ll just try a full test at some point, disabling metadata refresh, and see what it does. I have literally zero belief that it will be a smooth transition at this point, though, with all the threads detailing absolute mayhem.
Any experience with the export features in Tautulli? It seems this can also do a full export of all metadata (including images.)
That makes no sense to me. All new entries will use the new agent, right? All subsequent matching will also use the new agent? Why would Plex need to refresh all metadata on every entry?
Just to be clear, I have one single library, no collections (and I’m not interested in collections.)
Unchecking the box during the upgrade does not disable the refresh of all metadata, then?
