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I’m totally new to plex and I must be misunderstanding the library options, but I don’t want plex to change any of my original file metadata. Presumably that is controlled on the Edit library options page, but that seems to have various options that refer to ‘local’ - which ones stop plex overwriting my files?
I also have a NAS with plex - so this question equally applies to that.
Thanks in advance.
Plex never overwrites your files, nor their embedded metadata.
The options in the library properties relate to whether Plex shall prefer the metadata which are already present in the files, or whether it shall use only metadata from its own metadata databases.
OK - then I’m mis-seeing something. I looked at my Videos via my TV today and some of the titles shown (and images - posters) have changed - but I am not using Plex as a DNLA server (AFAIK - the option isn’t checked) - and as the original file names hadn’t changed, I assumed that Plex had then changed the metadata inside the files.
This has nothing to do with DLNA or not.
@OttoKerner
Sorry, I’m new to this. I thought for the videos to appear on my TV, I had to be using a server on my NAS and laptop? How does Plex ‘serve’ the files if DLNA is not enabled?
Plex server is talking to a “real” Plex client app via its own protocol. This is totally separate from DLNA.
Apparently, your issue is that some movie posters have changed overnight.
However, this has nothing to do with a change of the internal metadata of your media files.
This only influences what Plex is showing as poster for your file.
The source of this poster is very likely TheMovieDB.org if Plex has properly identified your movie and has “matched” it to a record in its own media database.
It does this matching mainly by the file names and folder structure in your media storage. https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/
Now, which poster is actually used depends on a number of factors: Among these are of course the settings in the properties of your library. So you can decide whether you want your own locally stored posters to have priority (if there are any). If you have changed this setting, the poster can change during the server’s nightly maintenance routine. During which new metadata can be fetched from the online databases. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201553286-scheduled-tasks/
It is also possible that in the meantime the user editing/voting process over on TheMovieDB.org has resulted in a different poster motiv to be considered “most suitable” for your library (e.g. dependent on library language and poster resolution/rating).
All metadata which Plex is fetching, are only stored in the Plex data folder on your server.
They’re never written back into your media files/folders.
OK - need to investigate more - I’m just resetting the data (as I thought it had been changed).
But I am confused - easy at my age! My TV isn’t running a Plex client - AFAIK it only has a DLNA client.
What I saw was a change to the data on my TV. I saw that the titles and artwork had changed in a few cases. Given that the DLNA server that I run is minidlna, I then (stupidly) assumed that Plex had somehow changed the metadata.
The implication being that minidlna is presenting the videos incorrectly.
Apologies for raising the issue.
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