While my ISP was getting my satellite connection sorted out, I was offline.
So I installed Plex Media Server on Ubuntu-18.04.
It worked well, but of course I was unable to login to the (central) Plex server, so my server was unaccessable from outside my network.
When my connection got established and the DNS records sorted out, I tried to get network access established, so I logged in to the Plex server for the first time.
Then I noticed that the metadata for two of my videos had changed, although the actual videos were still the same.
I suppose someone could have got into my server in the first few hours of connection, based on random IP and port 32400 open, and altered the metadata, but why bother?
And how do I correct the metadata? Rescanning my libraries doesn’t do it.
I don’t like that the “front page” lists “recently added videos”.
How do I change this to “all videos” or perhaps just blank?
I don’t know what sort of library you have but the server probably just got some online metadata because it was the first time it could.
click on the edit button (a pencil) and edit it how you wish. (hover on poster or on top right of preplay/summary screen)
I’m not sure what app you are using but on our newer app UI you can remove the hubs on the home page. For libraries click on “Library” at the top instead of “recommended” to see all.
the server probably just got some online metadata because it was the first time it could.
These were two of my own videos, Thunderstorm and Tree-Felling,
and the new metadata does seem to refer to commercial videos with those key terms. I wouldn’t ever want this to happen, how do I stop it?
Not to worry Plex adds metadata as per the server settings for agents. To change the way you would like, hover over the bottom left of title poster and click on edit symbol. To the left of the metadata fields are Lock symbols, use those to protect your entries.
Your own video to be a separate Library “other Video” when setting up and alter your Library Agent Film settings to reflect your need for Personal Media only.
If you put them in a movie library then it is expecting that they are commecial “hollywood” movies. if you want to keep them in that type of library do a fix match on them, click search options in the window and change the agent drop down to “personal media” then search and choose whatever is in list.
if you have a bunch of things that you want separated from hollywood movies you can create an “other videos” library which uses the personal media agent by default and does not get online metadata
