I recently ditched my HTPC which was running Kodi. I got a Synology 1815+ and replaced the HTPC with an Nvidia Shield. I'm still running Kodi on that and everything is perfect. In another room I have a Roku 3 which I am running Plex for the first time. I've put many hours into acquiring all the artwork and storing it locally as well as the nfo files that Kodi uses for the movie/tv info. I used Mediaelch for the bulk of this.
How can I get Plex to use all my existing info and artwork? I don't want Plex to go out and get artwork I may not like or have to worry about it not getting the proper movie.
When I chose 'personal media' for my agent in the library settings even if it used my artwork it didn't acquire ANY movie info... no description, writer, director or anything... I assume because it didn't look at my Kodi nfo files... but it didn't even get the movie year correct which is baffling since its part of the name of the file!! It used the 'date modified' of the file for that info...so even 50 year old movies it was telling me were from 2014!
One other issue I had even if I let Plex do all the scraping itself was for movies where I have multiple versions... Star Wars Episode IV for example. I have the Harmy Despecialized edit and the Grindhouse 35mm edition. Similar for all 3 Star Wars movies... but Plex is only showing one of them in the library.... and actually is seeing both of them as a single movie.
What I mean is if I browse in folder view I can see both versions of this movie.
I played 15 minutes of the Grindhouse version... went through the folders to find the other version.... no matter which one I pick it plays the Grindhouse version... even when I go to the Harmy folder and select play it asks if I want to continue or start from the beginning...even though I've never played it...
Anyway... how can I get to use EVERYTHING I have and nothing else?
I hope this is possible for me or this may be a deal breaker for this software and have to purchase more Shields...