Plex Error genre xxxx not found | Kometa | Page 1

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 4:25 PM

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Is there a reason why these collections can not be added? I see that it's giving me option, but I assume there is a way to go around this right?

I'm asking this since other ones are being added correctly whilst not being listed in the array of available collections.
I'm using this configuration:
https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager-Configs/tree/master/JJJonesJr33/Plex-Meta-Manager-All

Logs:
https://i.imgur.com/Rc3gPRo.png
https://i.imgur.com/0ufXn0q.png

Everything else has been added just fine, except for these.

Imgur

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 4:27 PM

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Please don't use images for text logs.

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ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 4:29 PM

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That error is telling you that the genre doesn't exist in your Plex library.

The next line ["Options: ..."] is the list of genres that do exist in your Plex library

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If you use the default metadata files, genre collections will be created dynamically based on your Plex library's contents.

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 4:41 PM

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Okay, so how do I fix the above error?

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I will provide the meta.log later

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📎 meta.log

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 4:48 PM

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ivory prism If you use the default metadata files, genre collections will be created dynamic...

This is the file that has the genres in it.

📎 genres.yml

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Is it because of an update that we are not limited to only plex libraries or how do I need to understand this

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 5:01 PM

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That file contains a list of specific, hardcoded genres. You don't have movies with all of those genres, for example "travel".

So PMM attempts to do a plex search for movies with genre "travel", and that search fails because you don't have any movies with that genre. That's what this line in the log means:

[ERROR]    | Plex Error: genre: Travel not found

You apparently have show_options set to True, so the next line in the log shows the list of genres that you do have in Plex:

| Options: ['Action', 'Adventure', 'Animation', 'Biography', 'Comedy', 'Crime', 'Documentary', 'Drama', 'Family', 'Fantasy', 'History', 'Horror', 'Martial Arts', 'Music', 'Musical', 'Mystery', 'Romance', 'Science Fiction', 'Suspense', 'Thriller', 'War']

Any genre defined in that JJJonesJr33 file that isn't in that list will produce this same result.

Basically this is you walking into a shop and asking for all their Belgian chocolate and the staff replying "We don't have Belgian chocolate; we have French, German, and English".

You "fix the above error" in any number of ways:

ignore it if you think you might have Travel genre movies someday.
remove that collection definition from the file
add some travel genre movies to the library
Switch to the PMM default genre metadata file, which will dynamically look at your library and create collections based on what it finds rather than working from a fixed list.

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 6:25 PM

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ivory prism That file contains a list of specific, hardcoded genres. You don't have movies ...

Okay thank you! In option 4 you're referring to the Options list?

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and, I just don't have a big enough library yet I guess lol

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I will comment them out for now since I don't want notifiarr to keep sending me messages over and over again.

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 6:28 PM

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Option 4:
https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/home/guides/defaults.html

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Option 2 would be removing everything not in that list from the metadata file.

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There are 16 collections defined in that file that produce this same "error" in your log.

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Plex Error: genre: Adult not found
Plex Error: genre: Anime not found
Plex Error: genre: Children not found
Plex Error: genre: Film-Noir not found
Plex Error: genre: Food not found
Plex Error: genre: Home and Garden not found
Plex Error: genre: Indie not found
Plex Error: genre: Mini-Series not found
Plex Error: genre: News not found
Plex Error: genre: Reality not found
Plex Error: genre: Short not found
Plex Error: genre: Sport not found
Plex Error: genre: Talk Show not found
Plex Error: genre: Travel not found
Plex Error: genre: TV Movie not found
Plex Error: genre: Western not found

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 7:52 PM

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Thanks for the help. I will most likely use other people configs as inspiration and build my own. Then I know how it all works

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Read up on all settings etc.

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 8:13 PM

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What you said at 3., when I eventually add a movie for one of these 16 genres the error will be gone?

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 8:18 PM

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Yes, in the same way that when that shop starts stocking Belgian chocolate your question would then be met with a bar of Belgian chocolate.

This isn't so much an error to fix as it is a notification that you're asking Plex for something that isn't available.

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If you replaced the JJJonesJr33 file in your config with:

    - git: PMM/genre

You'd get a set of collections that match whatever genres are currently in your library, with no "errors" in the log.

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 8:21 PM

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Okay, how would it deal with my custom posters?

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can I just put them in the assets folder accordingly?

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 8:22 PM

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Custom posters on movies or collections?

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 8:22 PM

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collections

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 8:22 PM

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Same mechanism.

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 8:22 PM

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cool cool

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Just trying to understand everything haha

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 8:23 PM

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My understanding is that the asset pipeline trumps every other source WRT images.

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 8:23 PM

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that is good

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Do you perhaps have a link to the PMM/genre config?

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would like to have a look at it

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 8:23 PM

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https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/home/guides/defaults.html#default-metadata-overlays-files

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 8:23 PM

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I copied all this, but I want to understand it

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Well, thanks for the help chaz

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 8:25 PM

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One thing to remember about all the non-PMM configs in that config repo is that they are not necessarily reviewed for correctness or maintained by their authors.

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That is not so say that they are to be avoided, just noting that it's a possibility. Things may changed since they were written, etc.

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For example, the overlay config in this file would not work if you tried to use it today:
https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager-Configs/blob/48a7f15a888cc7d073a62c1ddd69b47c52f2b69a/djnield/Movies-4K.yml

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 8:28 PM

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Yeah makes sense!

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There were a view options in jjj that I could also not find anywhere

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But this is really helpful

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The default PMM/genre does seem a little limited when it comes to the amount

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 9:08 PM

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amount of what?

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 9:08 PM

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Of genres

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 9:10 PM

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It pulls the genres from your library, it doesn't have an arbitrary limit so far as I know.

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 9:11 PM

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Oh then I completely misunderstand what is happening lol

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was looking at this file
https://github.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager-Configs/blob/master/PMM/genre.yml

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 9:14 PM

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That's the one. Those specific genres listed in the file are things that get combined.

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They're not the only ones handled.

compact kernel Sep 19, 2022, 9:15 PM

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Ah okay thanks

ivory prism Sep 19, 2022, 9:26 PM

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Just ran that file against my 1000-movie test library, and it created 31 genre collections:

|        Title         |   +   |   =   |   -   | Run Time | Status                                   |
|======================|=======|=======|=======|==========|==========================================|
| Genre Collections    |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:04 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Action               |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:12 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Adventure            |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:16 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Animation            |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:10 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Anime                |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:07 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Biopic               |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:16 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Children             |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:08 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Comedy               |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:15 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Crime                |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:16 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Documentary          |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:09 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Drama                |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:18 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Family               |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:08 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Fantasy              |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:08 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| History              |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:05 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Horror               |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:07 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Indie                |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:06 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Martial Arts         |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:05 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Music                |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:21 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Musical              |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:06 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Mystery              |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:09 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Reality              |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:07 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Romance              |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:12 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Science Fiction      |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:10 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Short                |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:07 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Sport                |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:07 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Suspense             |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:07 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Talk Show            |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:07 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Thriller             |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:13 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| TV Movie             |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:23 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| War                  |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:07 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Western              |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:07 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |
| Film Noir            |     0 |     0 |     0 |  0:00:12 | Created and Updated Metadata, Image      |

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:04 PM

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Okay so the only question that I have. I see in the genre.yml it picks certain posters from a library.
url_poster: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meisnate12/Plex-Meta-Manager-Images/master/genre/<<key_name_encoded>>.jpg

How would I go about changing this? I want to have all files locally instead of pulling them. This way I always know that the posters are available, and if I want to change something I throw a new file in the assets folder.

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 2:05 PM

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Use the asset pipline.

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:06 PM

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That is the problem I am having with the jjj as well, it picks up the posters from a certain url. But it does not put it in my assets folder, nonetheless the folders are being made for the .pngs to be put in.

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for example

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:07 PM

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ivory prism Use the asset pipline.

Do you mean this one?
operations:
assets_for_all: false

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and set that to true?

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libraries: # Library mappings must have a colon (:) placed after them
  Anime:
    metadata_path:
      - /config/metadata/anime.yml
    settings:
      missing_path: config/missing
      asset_directory:
        - config/assets/anime
    operations:
      assets_for_all: false
      split_duplicates: false
      delete_unmanaged_collections: false
  Movies:
    library_name: Movies
    metadata_path:
      - /config/metadata/genres.yml
      - /config/metadata/holidays.yml
        # - /config/metadata/studios.yml
      - /config/metadata/movie_suggestions.yml
      - /config/metadata/awards.yml
        # - /config/metadata/collections.yml
      - /config/metadata/decades.yml
    settings:
      missing_path: config/missing
      asset_directory:
        - config/assets/movies
        - config/assets/movies/movies
        - config/assets/movies/awards
        - config/assets/movies/collections
        - config/assets/movies/decades
        - config/assets/movies/genres
        - config/assets/movies/holidays
        - config/assets/movies/studios
        - config/assets/movies/movie_suggestions
    operations:
      assets_for_all: false
      split_duplicates: false
      delete_unmanaged_collections: true
  TV Shows:
    library_name: Series
    metadata_path:
      - /config/metadata/kids.yml
      - /config/metadata/networks.yml
      - /config/metadata/tv_suggestions.yml
    settings:
      missing_path: config/missing
      asset_directory:
        - config/assets/series/
        - config/assets/series/kids
        - config/assets/series/networks
        - config/assets/series/tv_suggestions
    operations:
      assets_for_all: false
      split_duplicates: false
      delete_unmanaged_collections: true
settings: # Can be individually specified per library as well
  cache: true
  cache_expiration: 60
  asset_folders: true
  asset_depth: 3
  create_asset_folders: true
  create_asset_directories: true
  dimensional_asset_rename: true
  sync_mode: sync
  delete_below_minimum: true
  delete_not_scheduled: false
  run_again_delay: 2
  missing_only_released: true
  only_filter_missing: false
  show_unmanaged: true
  show_filtered: true
  show_options: true
  show_missing: false
  show_missing_assets: false
  show_missing_season_assets: false
  save_missing: false
  tvdb_language: eng
  ignore_ids:
  ignore_imdb_ids:
  minimum_items: 1
  default_collection_order:
  download_url_assets: true
  verify_ssl: true
  item_refresh_delay: 0
  asset_directory: config/assets
  missing_path: config/missing
  playlist_sync_to_users: all
  show_missing_episode_assets: true
  show_asset_not_needed: true
  custom_repo:
  prioritize_assets: false
  playlist_report: true
  check_nightly: false

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this is my config file at the moment

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 2:07 PM

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You need to put the image in the asset directory and then prioritize local assets.

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:08 PM

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Okay and prioritizing the local asset is done with assets_for_all correct?

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or is there another option for that

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 2:08 PM

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Nope. That tells PMM to look for non-collection images.

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https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/config/settings.html?highlight=prioritize_assets#prioritize-assets

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:10 PM

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aaah third last line

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there it is

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it's set to false

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 2:10 PM

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Creating folders controlled by:
https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/config/settings.html?highlight=prioritize_assets#create-asset-folders

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Downloading controlled by:
https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/config/settings.html?highlight=prioritize_assets#download-url-assets

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Naming and how folders are searched described here:
https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/home/guides/assets.html

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Default priority of the various image specifiers:
<#general-chat message>

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:21 PM

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Hm but than I find it weird, since in my other configs I have url_poster defined with a link. It should then download that to my assets directory right?

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in the corresponding folder.

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This makes me think I have something wrong in my config.yml since it does create the different folders where the posters belong.

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Or do I have to manually set them in there and have prioritize_assets to true?

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ignoring the url's

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 2:22 PM

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I would expect that URL assets would be downloaded; I'm not sure if they get split up into folders. The log probably contains some details.

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:23 PM

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📎 collection.log

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This is a log for the anime/collections/Actions

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 2:23 PM

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If you have a local image in the asset directroy and you want to that override the URL, you need prioritize_assets: true

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:24 PM

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hm, what I want to achieve is download all assets and after that set priotize_assets: true

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but it's not doing that first part

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[2022-09-20 02:40:57,985] [builder.py:2580]           [WARNING]  | Asset Warning: Unable to find asset folder: 'Adventure
                                                                 | Asset Directory Created: config/assets/anime/Adventure'

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I think I just have it misconfigured

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Perhaps that running PMM again will now download the posters to their folders since the folders are now created?

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 2:28 PM

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I don't use this feature, so don't have any specific suggestions. I would just do a lot of testing with various settings to characterize the behavior.

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:28 PM

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Seems fair enough I think I will run pmm another time with python plex_meta_manager.py -r and see if it now downlaods the posters

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it should do it now since all the directories are created, and they weren't when it was first run,

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lol that worked

pastel kettle Sep 20, 2022, 2:32 PM

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yea i was just looking at that

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:32 PM

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It now downloads the posters

pastel kettle Sep 20, 2022, 2:32 PM

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it wont create and download in the same run

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 2:32 PM

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noticed haha

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tested that just now

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Some of my posters are missing anyway so... What I do wonder and I don't know if I asked this yesterday (cant remember).
When I download a poster, and it's stored in my corresponding assets folder. When the link becomes invalid, due to various reasons (deletion for example), will this update my poster in my library?

I know that if I pull my posters from theposterdb and it does not exist anymore it will return that it has not been found.
But when I have an imgur link for example, and the poster is deleted, does this mean that the imgur photo "bla bla bla not found" (see ss) overwrites the one in my assets folder?

(I know I can prevent this by setting prioritize_assets: true) but I'm curious if this could happen

pastel kettle Sep 20, 2022, 2:44 PM

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no it shouldnt

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 6:36 PM

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ivory prism If you replaced the JJJonesJr33 file in your config with: ``` - git: PMM/ge...

If I were to change my current genre config for my movies with the above. Like this:

  Movies:
    library_name: Movies
    metadata_path:
      - git: PMM/genre
      - /config/metadata/holidays.yml
        # - /config/metadata/studios.yml
      - /config/metadata/movie_suggestions.yml
      - /config/metadata/awards.yml
        # - /config/metadata/collections.yml
      - /config/metadata/decades.yml
    settings:
      missing_path: config/missing
      asset_directory:
        - config/assets/movies
    operations:
      assets_for_all: false
      split_duplicates: false
      delete_unmanaged_collections: true

And I set:

  prioritize_assets: true

Will all the available folders still be created inside my /config/assets/movies folder, or only the ones it can find?

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Noticed I tagged you, my bad!

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 6:37 PM

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the only list of genres it knows about are the ones in your library.

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 6:37 PM

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Okay, so this isn't the most ideal situation if I want to store my metadata locally I assume?

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custom assets*

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 6:38 PM

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I don't understand what problem you're trying to solve.

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You want local folders for the genres that you have, correct?

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Not a bunch of random ones that you don't have?

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 6:38 PM

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Well it depends how many there are

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Because I want to make the posters myself

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 6:39 PM

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That depends on your library

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This YML:

- git: PMM/genre

Is going to look at your library man d come up with a list of genres. On myu test library, that was 31 or so.

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On yours, or my main library, it would be smaller or larger.

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Meaning a different set of folders in any of the three cases.

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 6:40 PM

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Okay that makes sense, and when I add a new movie with a new genre it will add this on the next run

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 6:40 PM

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I don't understand why you consider that "not ideal".

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 6:41 PM

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Well I want to design my own posters

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That was the main reason

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 6:41 PM

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That has nothing to do with this.

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You'll need to design, or not, a poster for all the genres.

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It seems ideal that you would have to do that only for the genres you actually have in your library.

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 6:42 PM

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Yeah you're right.:)

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 6:43 PM

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If what you want is a random list of genres that do not necessarily reflect your library, you don't want this YML file, but then you'll need to manually keep track of what genres you want collections for and keep that YML up to date and deal with errors in the log, etc.

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Personally, I don't create genre collections since the UI can already filter by genre.

compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 6:44 PM

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Oh you mean the categories of plex?

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How do you have it set up for your movie library?

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 6:46 PM

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That's the new thing, but the library has always had a filter:

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compact kernel Sep 20, 2022, 6:52 PM

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I mean after all it's personal preference. I like to be able to click the genres haha

ivory prism Sep 20, 2022, 6:54 PM

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Of course.

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