Server Version#: Version 1.42.2.10156 Player Version#: NA I am experiencing a new regression that I have not experienced in previous versions of Plex Media Server. After each football game, I use MCEBuddy Custom Cuts to go through and remove any commercials that Plex missed on the first pass. It…

[image] Mike-E: When I do this (and not scan), Plex still thinks the show’s time is the original. “Analyze” should take care of this. It does for me, after I crop my recordings with TS-Doctor.

My personal recommendation: No library scans at all should occur in a library which is used solely for DVR content. And you should indeed create separate libraries for anything you record off air. Maybe even change the agent of these libraries to personal media. Only after you have verified that …

Hi @OttoKerner thank you for your reply. No library scans at all should occur in a library which is used solely for DVR content. So how do I make sure this happens (or doesn’t happen in this case)? The setting as I understand it above is applied to all libraries not to any particular one, as I u…

For reference these are the current settings for scan/agent. I am open to suggestions on what should be used. [image]

[image] Mike-E: The name does not change so therefore it’s abiding by how Plex originally created it. That won’t help if it appeared in the EPG with an episode numbering that is different from what’s available in TMDB and TVDB. Or if it is not match-able with one of the Plex agents at all. (…

Wow so dropping Agent to Plex Series revealed a ton of new settings that were not there before. Looks like somehow this setting got changed to Personal Media Shows which was the problem? We’ll see how this fares going forward. [image] OttoKerner: Unfortunately, the only way is to disable auto…

[image] Mike-E: Wow so dropping Agent to Plex Series revealed a ton of new settings that were not there before. Looks like somehow this setting got changed to Personal Media Shows which was the problem? We’ll see how this fares going forward. This is the exact opposite of what I am recommendi…

Don’t use a Plex metadata agent with a DVR library I do not see an option to not use one? What am I missing here, please? [image]

Sorry, I meant “Personal Media” (which means no external metadata is fetched)

Are you saying that I should set it to Plex Personal Media then? It was set to Personal Media Shows before and it led to this problem.

Even if set to Personal Media, Library scans should not get triggered at all. If you need Plex to get notified about a changed video length, or different number of audio streams etc., use “Analyze” only.

Regression: Post-processing (MCEBuddy) Removes Metadata

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OttoKerner November 10, 2025, 8:48am 12

This is the exact opposite of what I am recommending. Don’t use a Plex metadata agent with a DVR library. It might work with some items/series, but will miserably fail with others.

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Regression: Post-processing (MCEBuddy) Removes Metadata

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