Metadata agents for exported XBMC library

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1603

Where? the XBMCnfoMoviesImporter works fine just not when it is the primary scraper for “Plex Movie”

I’ve tried “Plex Movie” and “The Movie Database” agents with the “XBMCnfoMoviesImporter” to the top preference (moved to top of the list in the Settings > Agents, the NFO files don’t get read into Plex.
If I set the agent to XBMCnfoMoviesImporter it works fine.
Does the scanner matter? I have it set to “Plex Movie Scanner” but I’m using that for each of my Agent tests and it doesn’t seem to impact the “XBMCnfoMoviesImporter”.
I might have to give up and go with tinyMediaManager as my primary scanning method. I was hoping for a hybrid solution.

1604

On the preplay page of an individual movie. That way you can assign the .nfo agent on a case-by-case basis, without having to change the default agent for the whole library.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/201018497-fix-match-match/

1605

Oh, at the individual level, okay. Thank you but that is actually worse for my needs.
I guess there is no hybrid solution that doesn’t require a lot of manual work.
I’ll have to start using tinyMediaManager as my primary scraper. Thank you for your time.

1606

One nice feature of TMM is that it will rename the files like you want.
So I have the files stored in a temporary folder…
After everything is completed, posters are downloaded, subtitles, etc
rename the files and then MOVE them to the Plex directory…
scan Plex…

TMM has the move feature so it doesn’t need to rescan the files…

1607

I was looking at the init file for the Movies version (but same issue with the TV version).
Is part of the problem for not sending NFO file info to the Plex Movie Agent that it isn’t in the Contributes To?

accepts_from = [
    'com.plexapp.agents.localmedia',
    'com.plexapp.agents.opensubtitles',
    'com.plexapp.agents.podnapisi',
    'com.plexapp.agents.subzero'
]

contributes_to = [
    'com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb',
    'com.plexapp.agents.imdb',
    'com.plexapp.agents.none'
]
1608

imdb=Plex Movie

1609

Of course that makes sense :wink:
Well, then I don’t know why XBMCnfoMovieImporter doesn’t work with the “Plex Movie” agent, or the XBMCnfoTVImporter with TheTVDB agent

1610

I don’t know if is the updated XBMCnfoMovieImporter (Using latest version as of 2020-03-15) or if something changed with Plex but The Plex Movie agent seems to work for me now with XBMCnfoMovieImporter :smiley:
I’m seeing a problem now that I have been using tinyMediaManger. Tags are being listed as separate movies. Is that intentional?
If so is the only way to stop this behavior to manually remove them from all of my NFOs?
Example Tag: “< tag>date< /tag>”(without spaces after the <)
“date” is listed as a movie with no info. I have 6 movie folders I’m testing with and in Plex I have 39 movie entries. I see the 6 correctly titled movies but also 33 “movies” that are just Tags.

Seeing a separate “issue” of when I have two version of a movie. tinyMediaManger in those cases doesn’t make a “poster.jpg” but rather the “MovieName (year) extra info-poster.jpg” for each and for those when only using the XBMCnfoMovieImporter the poster art isn’t scraped. Only works with a “poster.jpg” in the folder. There isn’t the same “issue” for movie.nfo files.
–I can not see a way to force tinyMediaManger to make both (poster.jpg and the default to change art to the movie name when two files in the same folder) or at least just one poster.jpg.

1611

I have been using both for over a year and haven’t had a problem…

You have more then one movie tag in an NFO?

Could you post the NFO that has the problem so we can see what you mean…

1612

In the NFO there is a Tag called “tag” that is the problem. If I remove those then it works. In tinyMediaManager I had it scraping “Tags” (Settings > Movies > Scraper Options > Metadata Scrape Defaults). I just need to turn that off and then remove all tags from my NFOs. tinyMediaManger makes that easy with the bulk editing.

Not sure what to do about the poster issues.

1613

I have them;

  <tag>....2010s Collection</tag>
  <tag>....Current Year Collection</tag>
  <actor>

they work as they should…

1614

Then I don’t know why they’re are showing up as a movie entry in Plex. Any ideas?

1615

Are you using both?

1616

I have two Movie libraries setup right now one with and one without, both are having the issue.
One library with Plex Movie (with XBMCnfoMovieImporter) and another library with only the agent XBMCnfoMovieImporter

1617

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How my movie library is ser to grab only the NFO information…
I place the posters in the folder with the movies…

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Local Media Assets then pickup the posters, extras from the movie folder…

1618

For my XBMCnfoMovieImporter only library it is the same with the exception that I have Collections.
The Agent screen looks the same.

Do you have any movie folders that use the “moviename (year) whatever-poster.jpg” rather than just “poster.jpg”?
I’m thinking I’ll have to figure out some script to copy the “moviename (year) whatever-poster.jpg” and rename it to poster.jpg or something like that since I can’t do that with tMM.

1619

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The two trailer’s normally don’t work that way just lucked out the extensions were different so Plex doesn’t mind…

Edit:
the srt file should have .eng.srt… TMM sometimes doesn’t place it. and settings are correct.

1620

I went ahead and removed the “tag” tag from the NFOs to fix the issue of creating false movies. I couldn’t figure out why mine isn’t working like yours.
The main thing is the post art issue. Do you have a folder with more than one poster in it, ie two versions of the same movie?
-movie (2003)
–movie (2003) [Ext]-poster.jpg
–movie (2003)-poster.jpg

The poster isn’t being scraped into Plex for me, but will if I add a “poster.jpg” into the folder.

1621

One movie per folder…
Note that Local Media Assets picks up the posters and extras not the XBMC importer…

1622

Oh, okay. Well, if the poster art issue isn’t with XBMCnfoMovieImporter than I’ll have to look else where for help.
Thank you.