Quick question. I use Media Center Master to download meta data for my media. Does Plex use this data (and posters, backdrops, info about the film or TV series)? Or does Plex get data about the files from elsewhere and stores it elsewhere? Thanks

[image] StarlightExpress: Does Plex use this data (and posters, backdrops, info about the film or TV series)? Negative [image] StarlightExpress: Or does Plex get data about the files from elsewhere and stores it elsewhere? That’s a Roger. The Movie Database/IMDB (kinda) TVDB … and …

Watch this space though. [image] New Plex Media Server movie scanner and agent preview Metadata & Adding Files We don’t currently use any IDs in the filename only if an IMDB id is stored inside an nfo file in the movie’s folder. There are lots of changes in the pipel…

When I hear reports of faster users trampling slower users to death in a mad stampede for the new thing - I’ll check it out…lol In the meantime - not much beats a good file name and structure: https://www.filebot.net/

Yeah, I’m covered for naming and always will be. It doesn’t alter the fact though that scanning a library of 510 movies from scratch on a test system is at least 50% faster with .nfos in place than proper naming alone. No use case for me personally…unless the fateful days comes where the dedicated…

Don’t say that. That’ll be a sad day. Filebot and me are getting 98% accuracy - naturals all. That’s worth whatever it costs and then some.

Anyway @StarlightExpress Don’t be deleting all that metadata and nfo’s just yet. It’s very new and I don’t think it’s even classed as beta yet. Also for now it only works with movie libraries. By the time it comes to shows, I will have .nfo’s all ready to go. PS. I had a nightmare getting MCM t…

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Watch this space though.

There are lots of changes in the pipeline with Plex metadata handling with the new scanner.

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