Server Version#: 1.21.3.4046 Player Version#: 4.51.1 I’m trying to understand what databases and in what order the default Metadata agent goes to to come up with metadata for each piece of media. I asked this on reddit and was linked to: Movies: Local Media Assets - Movies | Plex Support Shows: L…

Plex gets the entire contents of those databases and keeps them within Plex. It performs a fusion of them. This occurs on a predefined schedule. a. movies: TMDB first - then IMDB b. tv: TheTVDB There is an overloading of the term “Local Media Assets” . It’s confusing to a new user but mean…

OKAY. So it’s not actually going out to any of these databases, it’s going to Plex itself. Plex keeps a kind of mashup of various databases, and that’s by default what Plex’s metadata agent will use. For example, a few of the things leading me to try to learn about this. I have a “Studio Gihbli Coll…

It’s not possible to browse the DB openly / unrestricted because someone would invariably try to download the whole thing. ( contract / licensing issues) Anime is one of the toughest to make work correctly. Naming and structure are critical here. Have you browsed TMDB and IMDB’s web sites t…

Yeah, I follow the naming a structure guidelines precisely, found at: [image] Naming and organizing your Movie files | Plex Support The scanners and metadata agents used by Plex will work best when your major types of content are separated from... and the other o…

FileBot seems to be the defacto standard. TheRenamer is another, I’m told. (maybe Windows-only based ?) If you try filebot and would like some renaming rules to use, I’ll be glad to provide.

Just downloaded FileBot, seems easy enough to use, most of my files are already named correctly it seems, but it’s catching the odd random file that has symbols and such in its name. Are renaming rules an actual file or something you import into FileBot? Or do you just mean your method? Thus far I …

You type in the renaming rules: Right-click “Match” → Edit format → (lower left) select TV mode or movie mode → type the format in the field at the top. I use /nas/movies and /nas/tv for my storage. Edit to what fits how you want it done. TV: 2 digit season numbers (makes sorting in listing…

What's the process for the default Metadata agents to get metadata?

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OttoKerner February 18, 2021, 8:16pm 10

see Plex naming schemes for FileBot

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What's the process for the default Metadata agents to get metadata?

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