Multiple drives, have a “Movies” folder at the root of each drive and inside of that are the movies which are “TitleName (year).mkv”. OS is Windows 10, no raid no drive pool. Scanning for all the movies takes hours (and this is a fresh install of PMS) and even then, no posters or metadata downloads at all.
Think you would have better luck if each movie was in it’s own folder. with the year.
So many remakes of movies making it harder and harder to get matches.
also it’s a place to put the movie extras…
I:\Movies\
Saw IV (2007)\
Saw IV (2007).mkv
Saw IV (2007).eng.srt
next movie (2009)\
Next movie (2009).mkv
Haven’t needed to make individual folders before and I don’t want to now, that would be an unnecessary undertaking. Previous incarnations (even just a few weeks ago) Plex did just fine with the way I have it organized. Even forcing a metadata refresh (Sidebar “Movies > Manage Library > Refresh all metadata”) doesn’t actually pull any metadata/posters down. I don’t see how having anything in an individual folder will magically make it match when plex is already finding the movies themselves correctly, it just needs metadata, any.
Drag local media assets agent to bottom of list, keep enabled.
Not using folders will create a far longer scan time. Just ask the guys that have been doing this for years. Your method works till it stops working. That life it the Plex lane.
The folders suggestion is a wise move. That has corrected a few metadata issues I had the past couple days. As for the duplicate movies just use the function to split them then male sure they match correctly. Try to empty the trash before refreshing metadata.
Dragged local media assets to the bottom, nothing changed. To test, I deleted the “Movies” library and made a new one with only 5 movies in it, still nothing.
Also, just to satisfy everyone wanting sub-folders, I did the same thing (removed the library, added a new one. Also, I clean/optimize the database) and it still doesn’t download any posters/metadata, so this is a larger issue.
Unnecessary? Hardly, unless you think scanning unnecessary items each scan is a good thing - hint - it is not.
Movies in their own unique folder are excluded from a scan IF you tick the boxes next to:
Scan My Library Automatically
and
Run Partial Scan when media it detected
That means if you add ONE movie - that ONE movie is scanned, not the entire Plex Library System.
Having movies in their own unique folder is very necessary indeed.
Also, if you drop Local Media Asset to the bottom of the stack of active agents it’ll stop giving priority to bogus embedded Title Fields in MP4/M4V files and blowing your matches when Plex prefers the bogus embedded Title Field, even over a perfect file name (if you have any).
I don’t have either of those options ticked and again, I have never created sub-folders before in the 5+ years I’ve been running Plex, so yes, it is unnecessary.
Also, see above, I created the much wanted sub-folders and it did nothing to change the outcome. Also did the local media assets change as well, you should refresh the topic.
Yea, me either until an HDD came up lame one day then I noticed every scan was scanning the entire Plexiverse. Oh yes, I stood with my chest all puffed out too - swearing I’d never put each movie in a folder, until the purchase of a $150 HDD deflated that puffy chest quite a bit and also reminded me that I could have used that money for something else.
It didn’t take me long to see the light.
It took a bit longer for Filebot and Me to put 10 thousand+ movies in Folders, but we did it and now when I add an item to the Plexiverse - it’s over in about 8 seconds.
Once again… I did what was suggested. I moved the “Local Media Assets” to the bottom of the list and also created sub-folders (There is nothing in the movies folder except for these sub-folders and their 5 test movies inside those, no other media files). Still. Not. Working.
