No poster automatically selected, but I am getting metadata

Server Version#: 4.12.3
Player Version#: Roku Premier+

I recently migrated everything from an old PC to a Synology DS1019+.

The migration worked, but not without some issues.

Currently, no new media is getting posters automatically selected when metadata is retrieved.

Instead, I get a clip of the source and I go back later to choose a poster. No need to “fix match” or anything. I just click the pencil and select a poster. All other metadata is correct.

I have seen similar reports and I have tried those solutions.

So, what i have done so far…

  • In Agents, I have turned off local media assets for plex movie and tmdb in both Movies and Shows).
  • I have turned off IPv6 in the PMS and Synology.
  • I have done the Plex Dance and it worked off and on when I was shuffling libraries, but is not something I want to do when new media arrives.

I have tried refresh metadata and a I get 500 error in the logs that looks like

Dec 29, 2019 12:38:46.298 [0x7f771fa23700] DEBUG - HTTP 500 response from GET http://127.0.0.1:45457/system/agents/media/get?guid=com.plexapp.agents.imdb%3A%2F%2Ftt7905466%3Flang%3Den&mediaType=1&url=metadata%3A%2F%2Fart%2Fcom.plexapp.agents.imdb_29c228bfc07a6c9119a666e29a07beb7eeb726a1
Dec 29, 2019 12:38:46.299 [0x7f778999a700] ERROR - Error bringing media local (metadata://art/com.plexapp.agents.imdb_29c228bfc07a6c9119a666e29a07beb7eeb726a1).

Attached is the log when I attempted to refresh metadata for a documentary that I confirmed has posters. Plex Media Server - refreshing metadata section.log (60.0 KB)

Any help is much appreciated.

When moving from PC to anything Linux based, you must delete all the old HTTPCookies from within the

Plex/Library/Application Support/Plug-in Support/Data directories (use File Station)

With each cookie file deleted (under each agent), restart PMS and “Refresh all metadata”

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That seems to be the fix. (I will report back if I discover otherwise.)

Thank you so much.

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