I have added movies since June and since then Plex appears to not want to find the corresponding movie.
I know there is a name convention. I am using it. Name (year).mp4.
I know there is a set up where Local media should be last. Why this doesn’t default is beyond me. It is unchecked and moved to the last location under Agent->Plex Movie and Agents->The Movie Database. Plex will reorder these AFTER I have set them.
I personally believe that your product people have made this product too hard. It’s like owning an iPhone - it wants to think for you and assumes that you have exactly the same set up as the Product Person. But the product person isn’t a customer - they’re an employee. Fire them.
I have also tried creating a new library of my movies. This was unfortunate because now it’s a mixed bag of results (some of that is MP4 meta data others are the issue where Plex resets the Agents heirarchy and even further is that Plex just doesn’t understand it’s only file convention).
Not sure if you can help - but this is pretty sad to witness. Might have to go back to XBMC on a raspberry pi.
Normally, ‘The LMA Hack’ is all that’s necessary to stop Plex from reading and reacting badly to bogus/conflicting info with embedded titles. Note: you should never disable LMA - you’re probably gonna need what it does at some point. ‘Demoting’ is usually all that’s required.
Be SURE you ‘Demote’ LMA under ALL Tabs in Shows and Movies - there could be some crosstalk across agents and if you have done the LMA Hack for Plex Movie, but not TMDB, there may be an issue (or may not - I have no idea, but it’s worth a shot).
You, me and about a million other Plex Users - but Plex is convinced they’re right, and the ‘millions’ of us users are wrong. Go Figure.
Anyway - let’s see some of those actual names. Also mention what language you’re operating under <—that may make a difference.
Also prepare some ‘Debug’ log files - NOT VERBOSE - or at least know where to get them quickly when asked to provide same (if necessary).
LMA Hack - Year 20?
(I tend to exaggerate - but every time I tell some hapless user about it I don’t really care how long it’s been… it’s been too long!)
thanks for these updates. I did a lot of research to make sure that I was doing the same thing.
I’ve essentially turned LMA off. It really doesn’t do anything that I want but it is also at the bottom of the heirarchy.
However, to just solve the overall problem, it appears that I was 3 version behind? So I unpinned the library and then deleted it. After that, all I did was rebuild the library after I updated the version (running Ubuntu as my media server)
That took quite a bit of work than I wanted; however, I think there’s two issues and one of them is my fault…
1, Yes, I should keep the versions up to date. However, if it used to work like a champ, why would a new version just blow up finding titles and art work? Mine is not a complex set up at all. However it appears that version management is probably the first thing to go to in order to resolve system wide issues.
There seems to be quite the set up to use this product. It should not really take getting 2 to 3 issues behind when problems start coming up. I’m not an early adopter - I shouldn’t be punished for being prudent about up-revving.
