I am finally upgrading my UnRAID storage server with bigger drives. I’ve ripped plenty of HD movies in the past and have started to rip Blu-Ray to add to my collection. I normally always use mp4 to conserve space. I was trying to see how a mkv rip of the same movie would work out at the full size wi…

the extension is irrelevant. as is whether they are mp4 or mkv, has no effect on the size of the file. so you can have a Movie (year) [1080].mp4 and Movie (year) [4k uhd].mkv and they should both show up as duplicates if in the same library. there is one reason why the same movie might show up as…

Thank you, I didn’t realize changing agents would affect it, this is my first time adding something other than an mp4 to my library. Well, learn something new everyday. Plex is amazing and i’m still trying to fully utilize it, but I did change agents then added a couple of movies. Is there a way to …

you would have to ‘refresh all metadata’ from the main library context menu. which of course would reload metadata for the entire library (which could take a while depending on number of movies). I know you said you wanted ‘duplicates’, but IMO its better to keep 4k content in a separate library. …

[image] TeknoJunky: you would have to ‘refresh all metadata’ from the main library context menu. No, this will not change the agent on already matched items. It will just fetch the same old metadata from the same agent. To really change the match you need to either: perform ‘Fix Match’ ‘ Pl…

[image] OttoKerner: ‘ Plex Dance ’ the item(s) Ok hmmm I thought refreshing at library would do it, and well I won’t go into how stupid the concept of the plex dance is. and as warning, plex dance or deleting library will obviously cause all play history and any metadata/poster/background/coll…

Sorry for my ignorance, but what is Plex Dance? Merging the file works, but now that I have changed agents (permanently) do I need to do anything going forward?

[image] The Plex Dance ™ Tips, Tricks & How-Tos The purpose of this is to remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item that Plex usually keeps. This helps when you want to “start from scratch” for particular item move all files for the media item out of the direc…

Oh I suppose one other thing you could do, is put your movie agent back to the original. Then new movies will have the same agent as the old ones (other than any movies you already changed to the new agent).

Naming convention with HD and 4K with different file extensions

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OttoKerner November 20, 2019, 11:41pm 8

If you happen to use the same agent as before, the playback history will be preserved. It doesn’t get deleted by the Plex Dance, nor by deleting the library.

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Naming convention with HD and 4K with different file extensions

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