Plex, metadata, where it's stored and which it uses

[mcmuttons]

I've got my little plugin for setting metadata, and under the hood everything seems like it works. My search and update methods are hit each time I refresh. My log says I've serialized my metadata changes to the AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Metadata\etc... folder. When I go to those files, I find xml files for the show, the seasons and the episodes with the metadata that I saved in the update method.

 

However, none of that data is actually showing up when I try to view those episodes in Plex. 

 

I know Plex will grab a bunch of data from the filenames and folders (like episode date, which show it belongs to and such), but shouldn't this be overridden by the data that is set in the update method? Does it use the xml files it stores under the Metadata folder for anything, or is that just an export?

 

 

Any tips would be helpful. :)

 

[mcmuttons]

Well, in case anyone's having the same kind of issue, I found that it was necessary to set the title of the series for the rest of the data to be picked up. Once I did that, it started working.

So in this case it was just a matter of setting "metadata.title = media.title" and it worked.