Plex-Meta-Manager VS XBMCnfoMoviesImporter.bundle

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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.

Unfortunately, Plex does not support NFO files, at least not with the new Metadata Agents. You would need to use 3rd Party Metadata Agents for Movies and TV-Shows and then use a separate library to use them since 3rd Party Agents don't work anymore in tandem with the new Plex official Agents.

You can use the XBMCnfoMoviesImporter which reads the NFO file that you can create with some other application.

While Plex normally doesn't read nfo files, you can install XBMCnfoMoviesImporter and XBMCnfoTVImporter agents to make it possible.

I use tinyMediaManager to add .nfo files, artwork etc. to all my movies and tv shows. To prevent Plex from using its automatic metadata retrieval (which in my experience sucks for more obscure stuff) and use my manually curated local metadata instead I had to install 3rd party plugins from github and while they work for now there's no guarantee that they will continue to do so.

To utilize NFO files you would need the NFO importer Metadata Agent for Movies and TV-Shows.

I use Adult Media Manager in conjunction with XBMCnfoMoviesImporter

For example, you could create NFO files to store the metadata next to the video files and then use the NFO Movies Importer or NFO TV-Show Importer to read those NFO files that you can create with tinyMediaManager. You could also look into Plex-Meta-Manager but either of those solutions would require that you already have those files or create them, nothing really to get them out of plex in an easy way.

The first one would be to use a different metadata Agent there NFO importer for TV-Shows and Movies. They will read the NFO files and add them to your Library item. AFAIK you can create those NFO files with TinyMediaManager This would give you total control over the metadata being added.

Tried Phoenix but I prefer to have a bit more granular control over this stuff so I use AdultMediaManager to scrape metadata and generate NFO files then use XBMCnfoMoviesImpprter as a library agent to get that displayed in Plex properly.