Is there anyway to tell Plex to do a partial metadata scan? I do not want it to scan all my movies again because it takes forever, but there are 2-300 movies that have no posters (or screenshot from the movie “posters”) and no metadata, and right now I am having to go through the list manually click on the … and then select ‘refresh metadata’ and not only is this slow, but it is tedious and relative, exactly the things that computers should make simpler.
Is there some flag I could set in the database based on the movie not having a poster assigned? I am not shy about getting in there with sqlite3 from the command line and I already have numerous scripts that make queries against the database directly.
(I ended up in this situation because the first time through, Plex crashed after scanning most of the movies, but not all and there doesn’t seem to be anything that will scan just the films that do not have metadata.)
I consider the most straight forwards way would be to actually refresh metadata for the entire library. Should take less time than what you already spent to update individual items.
Just trigger it when you go to sleep and it should be all done the next morning (probably much faster… but that way it won’t interfere with you watching any movies etc.)
does it? It says it refreshes everything which makes me think it will takes just as long. There doesn’t seem to be a “get only new metadata” setting. And the scan was not fast, it took more than 12 hours, and I think much longer but I did not time it.
Refreshing Metadata for a library or individual item causes the metadata for the item to be refreshed, even if it already has metadata. You can think of refreshing as “update metadata for the requested item even if it already has some.
Odd. It di nothing for me. Didn’t even react to the mouse click. I finally gave up on being able to do anything reasonable, and have told it to refresh all metadata. Watching Netflix for the night and hopefully not tomorrow too.
I often wonder IF infact there is a flag plex stores in the db after downloading metadata successfully. I mean, I would think so. I can’t see how plex knows something is ‘complete’ from posters to ratings(some are not listed online). What does plex do in a case like that.
No online rating found = A successful download of rating ‘nothing’?
I defiantly had some movies with no metadata where trying to manually refresh the metadata did nothing and I had to do a “fix match” to get any metadata. One movie I remember specifically was “Zelig” which is a unique movie name as far as I know.
That means the movie was not matched and therefor refresh metadata will do nothing for you. It can’t refresh metadata on movies that aren’t matched.
AFAIK you should be able to do ‘update libraries’. That will scan for movies that have already been detected within plex but will also try to match them if not done already.
Plex will generally skip all movies that it believes are completely matched and only work with ones that are not. It’s a kinda ‘partial scan’
If one lowered the importance of Local Media Assets by dragging that agent to the bottom of the list, and ran about 40 thousand files through Filebot - set for Plex Naming - I predict this problem would simply vanish…
I only say this because I had this issues a few weeks ago upgrading to 1.15x then adding content then downgrading back down to 1.13.8. I also restored my database aswell(before the content add) to prevent any issues that may of arise with 1.16 changing db format(e.g. new tables, deprecated tables, changed tables/values names, etc).
I had to do a library update.
Widespread metadata issues with files unmatched indicates a previous problem with naming never corrected. Let me change “Simply Vanish” to “Mostly Mitigated”. Plex will fumble it’s fair share of correctly named matches, but the numbers are fairly low.
If you have the library set to detect changes, and you start correctly naming files, they’ll start matching automatically negating the need for a system wide meta refresh - that’s probably going to fail anyway due to poor naming.
I can’t speak to version hijinx either. I’ve been upgrading regularly when prompted and can report nothing odd. Apart from the normal Plex odd.
Probably, but I have to say except for that disaster version wherein everything basically exploded (long time ago), I’ve had no issues.
I have been moving a lot of media recently. I’ll copy 300 files or so 295 of them will double up, but 5 correctly named items are suddenly mysteries. Of those 5 another trip through Filebot may find an error/update for one. Not bad, I guess.
Anyway, I’d drag LMA down the list, restart the server and see what happens. If nothing good happens reveal the file name of one of these unmatched items - or better yet, provide some logs - and there could be a bottom of this thing somebody can get to.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I had no issues with naming. They were correct. The issue was that plex did not see the ‘new’ files(timestamp issue???) and the ones it did, no metadata was assigned. I updated libraries and it was like magic!! All that weren’t were now found(and metadata downloaded successfully) and the ones that were found downloaded metadata successfully. It was odd. The only issue I had after that was OnDeck watched items. Had to go through and flag watch on what I did watch from after the db restore. No biggie I guess…
