Selecting specific metadata from TVDB

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Hey guys,

My media library is pretty neat as I have manually added most metadata, but one thing that I would like to not have to do manually is get Plex to show the episode artwork from TVDB and not the season artwork that I currently have baked into the metadata on my files.

I thought about going to my TVDB agent and putting TVDB first and then my embedded metadata after, but unfortunately the TVDB has split episode data and my files are not split. E.g. Part one and Part two of an episode are split up on TVDB but my actually file of the episode has them combined.

Is there any way to tell the TVDB agent that I only want to use their Artwork and nothing else?

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You could rename your files: TV Show s01e01-02 so it shows as two episodes, that would be the most logical way (match your files to the metadata source choosen)

Copy the agent in the right folder [github.com/plexinc-agents/TheTVDB.bundle] and edit it.
Python is not a compiled language and is semantically simple. metadata variables will begin by “metadata.”…

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I think semantically it makes sense to edit the agent. Thanks for the Pro Tip about that by the way, I didn’t know about it. And it’s all good, I’m a programmer by trade so it shouldn’t be an issue.