Example Movie:
Banana Joe (1982)
Standard Plex Movie Agent and Scanner.
TMDB has posters for it Banana Joe (1982) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
why does plex not automatically find them? in fact not a single poster to select when editing the movie
name it “Banana Joe.1982.mkv”
And then? Nothing happens. There are still no posters in Plex database
Considering its blank here https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/movie/banana-joe I’d guess the movie was subject to a take down request which required plex to remove the artwork. See Metadata poster for My Fair Lady not posting - #4 by ChuckPa for details as many movies have such problems.
So frustrating. I don’t have words for that. Plex annoys me more and more every day…
I guess I understand now. The reason why all these nerds are highlighting „open source“. It is annoying. I can’t even have a look or provide new artwork to the source. Because fixing these things on a user level is simply just a bad fix for a deeper problem. I don’t want to either add those things manually or save those things locally on the folder if they are available at TMDB or others.
Switching to the TMDB agent should fix this, right? All the metadata then comes solely from TMDB? Or is there still some Plex „magic“ happening in the background?
From my understanding the Plex agent was supposed to be something smarter than just fetching from one database. A logic that collects data from many databases and then provides the information with the data from database B if A is not available. But I guess I was wrong on my expectations with that. So I will avoid the Plex „magic“ and go back to the dumb just one database logic if this is still a thing. There I can introduce changes myself if there is something wrong or missing
If your using the modern plex agent / scanner (aka Plex Movie) then no. Plex uses a consolidated metadata approach now. It gathers/ranks metadata from multiple sources., There is no way to tell it, go get data from tmdb.
Using local assets (poster.jpg and/or fanart.jpg) alongside your media is the ONLY sure way to get the artwork you want.
You can always use your own https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/uLLnGV4kuwnHofexT1aXP8wQcxB.jpg
Except it’s not. Just in the last few days I getting nothing to match. PLex Agent is the only option and it keeps coming up blank. Even whey I simply replace old, properly populated files with new ones, the new ones don’t match at all.
Plex keeps taking features that work, make them “better” and they stop working. Flat getting old. I want my Lifetime pass better spent.
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