Move files with Metadata between servers

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I have been looking over the forums and cannot find answer for a few specific metadata issues.

First - my Plex use case is to have one master Library where I add all media and then I can distribute to other Libraries or servers as necessary. I currently have my server, my wife’s server and kid’s libraries on both for redundancy and maintenance.

Unfortunately, I cannot copy media files into my other libraries or servers and maintain metadata. When Plex scans, it updates the posters and undoes any metadata updates I have made on the Master.
This creates two issues for me:
First, changing the artwork makes my younger children think there is a new ‘Toy Story’ movie out even though its just a different poster. Very annoying but I think this can be fixed using poster.jpg and having local assets in the agent list. Current working on my test library.
Second, the sort names are all messed up in online databases. Am I the only one who would like my Avengers movies to appear in chronological order instead of alphabetical? Anyway, this is a problem for my use of plex, as I would really prefer not to have to fix the sort name every time I move a file to a new library.

I have used Itunes in the past and it taught me to love embedded metadata but understand that Plex doesn’t do that or local metadata files. I can make peace with that, but is there a way I can fix this in Plex and make the metadata more portable?

Server Version#: Version 1.19.1.2645
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Plex isn’t designed to replicate content (metadata or media) among servers.
Have you considered simply running 1 central server and share libraries with the users of your wife and kids alike?

As for

Have you considered using Collections for that purpose (e.g. assigning all Avengers movies to an Avengers collection and configure that collection to sort its items by release date)? That however will also only work for a single server and would need to be managed individually if you keep working with different servers.

As for

… you can do this but only if you have all your media in mp4/m4v files with properly maintained metadata. You’ll need to configure the library to prefer embedded metadata and have Local Media Assets set as the highest priority media source for your agent.

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Collections work ok, but they aren’t the solution I am looking for here. In the collection, its correct but I like all the movies in one menu.

I do have properly formatted embedded metadata for use in iTunes but this isn’t how Plex reads it. Dates are wrong, sometimes tag lines are use instead of descriptions. They are all correct in ITunes, if I had a format Plex uses, I could fix it.

As for for separate servers, it’s a problem for libraries too. If I copy movies from the master directory to another library directory on the same server and the problem still occurs.