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Good evening.
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately ripping my BluRay/DVD/4k Discs to mp4 files and adding them to my Plex Server (950 or so and counting). I’ve been running into a couple strange issues in regards to Collections lately and after trying everything I could find in the forums, reddit and AI recommendations I thought I’d post here.
First, every time I rip a disc to a file and store it in the Movies Library folder it automatically creates a Collections tag for the film. I’ve gone in and disabled everything I can in Agents and Settings but it’s still doing it. I’m using DVDFab Ripper to do the extractions but I have Metadata turned off on that as well. It’s not something I can’t work around by deleting the tag and Collection it creates, but it’s a PITA to be sure.
And now, as of the upgrade to the most recent version when I log in each day to start adding more movies I’m finding new Collections created from single films that have been in my Library for ages. I delete them and the next day there are different ones.
Hopefully someone can lend me some insight into this behavior and how I might be able to correct it.
Thank you!
Assuming you have the minimum automatic collection size setting pictured below set to Disabled or a number higher than 1, the other way a collection can be made is if it the file has an embedded Album tag which will get picked up via the Prefer local metadata setting ( also under advanced in the library settings)
I’ve never used DVDFab, not sure if you can tell it to not put it in. Are the files you are making MP4s?
Thanks for the reply!
Minimum Automatic Collection Size is disabled and Prefer local Metadata is unchecked. The files I’m creating are mp4s but some of the movies that have popped up as collections the past few days since the installation of the new PMS are mkv files.
I have the “I want to use metadata” option unchecked on DVDFab as well.
Were they disabled when you started this thread? Disabling them after the fact will not remove already-created collections. You’ll need to go to the Collections tab, select them all, and then delete them.
I think this is maybe a bug. I just tried with an MP4 and even with Prefer Local Metadata and Use Local Assets disabled it was still reading the embedded Album tag i intentionally put in there and making the collection.
I make a report to see what Metadata devs say.
So it seems like DVDFab is adding that tag even though you told it not to add metadata and the server is picking it up. You should use something else like MediaInfo to confirm the file has the album tags.
Only thing I can currently suggest is to use MKV’s instead of MP4s. not sure if DVDFab does that but many folks use MakeMKV to rip DVDs.
Yes. It’s been disabled for a while.
It does seem to be a bug. I had several movies show back up under collections this morning that when I look at the Collections tag on, it’s empty but when I look at the Album tag on the file itself via Mediainfo it’s there.
Was told this is not a bug and how the built in Plex Movie agent has always worked in regards to embedded metadata as it used the Local Assets agent too.
The only way currently to make it not get embedded metadata it to make a custom agent and only use Plex Movie.
In Metadata Agents settings it would be like this when creating the custom agent.
That did the trick! I’d already tried locking it down to Plex Movie in the Legacy Agents but this solved the issue. Thanks for your assistance!
