I seem to have some issues with Embedded Metadata and the new Plex v1 series (tried all of them).
So for some background, I have Amazon Cloud drive mounted on my mac.
I have some 'home movies' organised as TV Shows.
The 'Seasons' are years so there are a large number of episode per 'season', between 80 and 150 episodes per season
All The files have embedded metadata, which is what I want Plex to use. (I know this is the opposite to what most people want)
I have Local Media Assets(TV) at the top of the List for "Shows - Personal Media Shows"
And it all used to work prior to v1
When I add the folder structure to Plex and do an initial scan it gets all the files, but does not seem to get the metadata.
So when it has finished the first run, I can then use match to get the metadata.
This will then get all the correct metadata, so that's ok, I can work with that.
But If I then add more files, nothing I seem to do will get the metadata for the new files. (ok, after more testing it looks like a full library force refresh will, sometimes work)
I add the new files and rescan, the new files are picked up, but with no metadata
If I try to match at this point, it does not get the metadata for the new files
I have tried a refresh on the individual item, and then a match, still no metadata
Tried a refresh on the whole library, nothing changes, still no metadata
If I remove the whole folder, do the plex dance and re add the folder again, then the metadata will (sometimes) be read correctly.
But that is a major pita, just to add a new file (And also from another post I found I should not need to do the Plex dance if its using embedded metadata, but that's probably a pre v1 post)
So it does not seem to be a problem with the files per se as Plex can obviously read the embedded metadata or I would never get any metadata for the files.
Once the Library has been added it seems that Plex no longer tries to read the embedded metadata, at least not in the same way as when adding the library.
When I tried a refresh on the specific 'series' I can still see entries like this in my logs:
2016-08-26 22:47:43,675 (700002dbb000) : INFO (videohelpers:190) - Reading MP4 tags
2016-08-26 22:47:49,882 (700002dbb000) : INFO (localmedia:273) - Looking for subtitle media in 1 paths with 123 media files.
2016-08-26 22:47:49,882 (700002dbb000) : INFO (localmedia:274) - Paths: /path/show season/For each of the files in the folders, which looks like it should be reading the metadata.
But in my testing, I did see some messages in the logs where it is storing a deleted count against files, which suggests to me that deleting stuff never actually removes it from the database, so in which case I guess I will need to delete my libraries and then the database to start with a clean slate.
And after continued testing, I give up, it just seems so erratic and never quite does the same thing each time.
I am about to ready to destroy my whole install and revert back to the 0.9 series as the whole v1 release has caused so much pain