we should make it where Plex will leave your shows and whatever in the folders there in and just find the metadata but leave them in the folders instead of having to remake collections later then you never have to worry really about backing up your metadata because it’ll save it to the drive that you can take off and if something goes wrong everything is left over from another hard drive you don’t have to backup metadata anymore I just put your stuff in those the collections just to leave them in the folders there in and that’s it
That sounds fantastic but I don’t see this working for alot of setups. Some people don’t give write access to the drive/folders their media is stored on and some don’t know how. And what about cloud storage. You got to consider that aswell. That and plex is not made to do this. It would have to be redesign to use ‘local’ metadata aside from posters/external subs and whatnot. Of course this brings up another issue of plex re-scanning folders over and over again because it detects changes in the folder(s). And, what will this look like on the frontend. You go into a single movie folder to find 200 metadata files. It would be pretty crowded.
The most important thing about plex is the database(for all manual edits). Then the custom posters(you should keep them with the movies/series/episodes themselves). If you got those two things then you will be in great shape to do a rebuild.
Though, I do like your idea. It be great if plex stored much of the metadata content with the media.
I would be fine if I’m there today. I just don’t know how to back it up I looked at everywhere talk to everyone know we knows how to tell me how to do it they just say I will just do this and doesn’t work for my my cloud pr4100 if you could tell me how to do it or send me an exact way to do it it would be breathtakingly awesome I’m just afraid I don’t want to have to do this I’ve set it up on four other people’s houses and my family have drives to have bad internet in the area might have one drive goes down I don’t want to have to rebuild it all again I just want to be able to migrate would I have back to theirs and be done
because I have over a hundred and ninety collections those are just collections and some movies have ate some collections have eaten there and some have more it’s a pain in the butt have to redo them every time instead I could just backup my metadata and bring it with me to other people’s if I have to to rebuild or to give it to somebody new
I use “tiny media manager” to organise all my folders on my hard drives, each folder contains, poster,fanart,sometimes more than one of each , plus info’s , are you saying that when i add a movie/show to plex , it never even scans my local folders for artwork/metadata ?
Don’t know. I don’t use tiny media manager so I can’t tell you how the artwork layout is. And Plex can’t do local ‘metadata’ natively aside from embedded info in MP4 files.
Plex is very picky about how it wants local posters/artwork so take a look here to find out the how
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/
An option would still be great regardless.
Emby gave an option on either storing alongside the files or in a more Plex fashion.
The other cool thing was an .nfo file could be created that also included watched status for all users.
On a total disaster such as the OS drive ( or custom PMS drive) dying then basically all watched status were recovered as soon as Emby was set up again. No need for trakt it just worked stand-alone.
- this would only benefit the Admin, so it will get shot down.{I joke}
I think most would benefit from this unless you store everything in 1 single folder (yes, some people do that). But in that scenario, then everything will behave as it currently does so it shouldn’t make them any difference.
I would love to have the option.
Check out LAMBDA to save off you collection and other metadata so that it is saved in the event of a failure
Emby offers the option and it works flawlessly. Rebuilds are super quick.
this looks like a great plugin…
just one question how do you recover the information in a rebuild ?
everything mentions Export, Export, Export no Import.
There is a setting that determines if the database puts to your file system or if the file system puts to the database. Read through the post and the settings are all discussed. Also the developer is very responsive.
I heard that but I’m so invested in Plex. I lie. I’m just to lazy…
You don’t have to, I’m just saying it’s possible to give the option to users without problems.
Plex does indeed look for and use local metadata. You have a local metadata agent even in the options. “Local Media Assets”. Plex does scan and look for local metadata, and it adds it to the metadata it scrapes from tvdb/moviedb and other places. It becomes a selectable poster/banner/art within the metadata editor.
Scheme for Television Local Metadata: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220717-local-media-assets-tv-shows/
Scheme for Movie Local Metadata: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/
The LMA agent only cares for posters, cover art, subtitles and song lyrics.
It does not read ‘textual’ metadata, like Movie or Episode titles, teaser texts, performing artists/actors, content ratings, studio names, authors, directors…
Let me rephrase the above a bit:
Plex does read textual metadata, however
- it won’t read them from Kodi-compatible .nfo files
- it will only read them from mp4 / m4v containers
Oh, I know. And many other people are finding this out. LMA enabled and on top of other agents cause alot a headaches here.
It’s like the second thing everyone talks about aside from “Is your naming convention correct?”
I’m am real curious to know if Nevermind. I guess the talk will come when/if the feature gets implemented.
To be honest, I have no recollection of this thread and it’s content. Had to re-read it. Anyway, LMA can be a disaster.
