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@dokuro

I use filebot and their extended attributes (xattr). This stores local filebot attributes alongside my media files which I can then query against the online metadata providers (tmdb or tvdb). If something like title changes I can then detect it which typically can mean an episode re-ordering.

Interesting approach. I’ve used tmm for years and this might be the first thing I hear about FileBot that sounds like something tmm can’t do.

@dokuro

As I mentioned above, I have never used this plugin. I used the plex providers so all my guids are plex://xxxx/yyyy ones.

That question was meant for @drzoidberg33. I tried to make that clear by quoting part of his message.

@dokuro

change on your existing server your scanner/agent from the xbmcnfo plugin to the plex provided ones, force refresh which should (in theory) migrate your watched status & played history over to their provider

That is exactly what does not work for me and the initial problem I described here, hoping that it could be fixed on the Plex side.
I changed my existing libraries from XBCMnfo to custom new agents with Plex Movie/TV as primary + local data and NFO as secondary. Which works great for new stuff I add but did not change existing movies/tv shows at all. Even after a full metadata refresh or when I try to manually match these.
My tests revealed that the exact same files get matched near perfectly on a fresh install with identically configured libraries and the same custom metadata agents.

@dokuro

It goes without saying but just in case make sure you have backups if you attempt this

I’ve bricked 5 or 6 database (copies) until I got this

@Casual_Tea

I’m asking because I was able to migrate the “watched” status of my old db with the XBMCnfo guids to the new db with the Plex Movie/Plex TV guids after watching a 4 hour database tutorial and with the help of ChatGPT.

to work properly.