Meta data in Plex vs the file

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I suppose there’s different approaches to answer your question.

First: While I certainly hope, Plex won’t fail me… there’s always the route to backup your database. In case your server goes south you’ll still be able to restore it from a backup – including all the metadata.

As for your specific question:

  1. The metadata is inside your database and can be accessed as such (SQLite).
  2. You can even use some of the API endpoints of the PMS to lookup metadata and details for the items in your library. There’s little / no official documentation for those though.
  3. There’s 3rd party options such as Web Tools NG / Export Tools NG to manually trigger a more easily accessible dump of your metadata (and more)
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