I tried to do this a few months ago, and it ended up just wiping my playlist, since it was using the same Collection name. What is the best/safest way to basically migrate a collection over to PMM without losing what is in there now?
#Looking to bring an old Plex created Collection into PMM
marsh sequoia
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Basically the answer is to create a new collection definition in PMM that brings in the same items, then once you've got that tuned, delete the original collection.
PMM won't delete existing collections unless you tell it to or you stomp on them with new collections with the same names.
I have a script that will extract naive collection definitions for existing collections.
https://github.com/chazlarson/Media-Scripts/tree/main/Plex-Meta-Manager
extract_collections.py
marsh sequoia
ahh, I was hoping there was a easy way to do that. I was looking at some tools to export the Collection as a .csv, then import to trakt.tv to avoid losing anything, and since Plex removed plugins, some of that is kind of a pain.
It seems that to bring into trakt, I need to export the iMDB id to give it something to match with, and when I try to Export metadata with tautulli, it exports the Plex agent information, so that's a no go.
I'll give this a try. At least having the list will help to quickly convert over to trakt manually.
raw echo
That script will emit a metadata file ready to use with PMM. No intermediary needed.
marsh sequoia
Oh, awesome, that is exactly what I need then. Thanks for the heads up!