Plex-Meta-Manager VS Lambda.bundle

Download everything from my repo and from PMM repo

Digging into it more and more I discovered the FlixPatrol option to get the tops from the mainstream providers, and I know for sure this would be much appreciated among my users, as well as myself to be honest. I got very hyped by it, only to discover that due to a recent change of policy from FlixPatrol, support for it is being dropped.

Reading through these: https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager/issues/534 https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager/discussions/357

Plex-Meta-Manager: Handles collections and metadata for Plex.

You then want to make a single movie library that uses the /Movies path. That way when movies are "upgraded" you don't have to have that new library download new metadata. Plex natively doesn't have auto collection creation but you can use something like Plex Meta Manager. I'd try to figure it out using their wiki but if you can't or need help they seem to have a discord. Just quickly looking you can make collections by resolution so I assume there is some way to base it on audio type.

Plex Meta Manager (GitHub) for some automated library organization. This one has been a long process. It's a steep learning curve when you're first starting out, but my suggestion is to pick ONE feature and start there. That is, "I want a collection of the IMDb Top 250 Movies" and learn how to implement that, then move on to another feature you want to add. Currently, I have overlays for streaming services, audio quality, and video quality, plus collections for IMDb, award winners, filmmakers, actors, and production companies.

The default playlist config (referred to as PMM: playlist) has the following viewing order playlists pre-configured.

Has anyone tried this, for instance? https://github.com/ZeroQI/Lambda.bundle

Not completely. You can use the Lambda Metadata agent to extract some metadata to store it locally like posters (see the description of the Agent to see what it saves).

Look into Lambda and XBMCnfoTVImporter.

Lambda

download https://github.com/ZeroQI/Lambda.bundle/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

If you're worried about losing your custom posters, try Lambda.bundle. It's a Plex plug-in that will save all of your artwork locally. Then all you need to do is make sure you have your libraries set to use local assets.

Restore the back-up, install the plugin Lamdba https://github.com/ZeroQI/Lambda.bundle. It will export all of your posters to your media folders as local assets. Then after the export, delete Lambda, switch scanner back to the newest and make sure you have prefer local metadata toggled. No more plex changing posters.

I heard there was an NFO plugin where you can have it extract all the information Plex imports like cast and stuff and save it locally. I have it running, but haven't messed with it much. It'll grab all the cast and such information and store it in a NFO file.