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In my “movie” type video libraries I have configured the Scanner “Plex Movie”, the Agent “Plex Movie” and activated “use local assets” as well as “prefer local metadata”.
But still local metadata (within the movie files) and local assets (as poster.jpg) are ignored and those from themoviedb are used instead.
I tested with the Video File scanner - metadata are recognizable within the video files.
I want to achieve that local metadata a used for display when available and only unavailable metadata / assets (like actors’ thumbnails) are loaded from somewhere else.
I do not really expect to have hit a bug, I just do not see what I overlook.
Next attempt: I changed the sequence in the agent settings putting “local assets” to the top and recreated the library (after explicit deletion of it) - not change at all.
Local Metadata and assets are not used.
Hi Tom,
agent and scanner are “Plex Movie”.
For each Movie, there is a folder with the movie name and year in brackets, containing the video file (also movie name and year) and a poster.jpg file with the poster.
The identification of the themoviedb entry works, correlation is correct. Just my local metadata and poster is ignored.
Dirk
Just to chime in, i’m having the same issue as well. Been going on for a couple weeks now. Tried moving files, changing it from <moviename.nfo> to just <movie.nfo>, recreating the library, changing permissions on the metadata files to 777, nothing seems to work. Running the latest version of PMS in a docker container on UnRaid.
That’s unrelated from Plex using embedded metadata. As far as I remember Plex will at max read an online ID from a NFO file to improve the matching. Plex won’t read other metadata from such files — unless you’re using some 3rd party agent
That’s strange, because it definitely did previously. The checkbox for “prefer local metadata” itself even says “When scanning this library, prefer embedded tags and local files if present.”
I have figured out a bit more about how all this works.
If I use the “Plex Movie (Legacy)” agent, I can adjust the sequence of sources in the agent configuration. I can put “local media assets” to the top of the list.
And then it works: local metadata and artwork are used. But actors’ thumbnails are not loaded from themoviedb or else.
If I use the newer “Plex Movie” Agent, I cannot adjust anything in the agent configuration of the settings pane, but I can tick “prefer local metadata” - which clearly does not work. That sounds like a but to me.
I don’t expect Plex to match actor pictures to actor names from an embedded file… it’s not like there’s a 1:1 match for most of those.
As for preferring local / embedded metadata… seems to be working ok for me. To be fair… I rarely use actual embedded metadata as I prefer my files in MKV containers (from which Plex won’t read embedded metadata anyway)… though I recently tested something with some of my mp4 home videos that contain embedded and that was loaded fine.
Same for local posters, backgrounds, theme music…
Okay, I did not think of that.
That means, I would have to omit the actor names from the local metadata to get what I want.
F*uck! It is nearly 20.000 movies.
