Dec 7, 2023 · There are several metadata agents available for TV Shows: Plex Series: The default agent in current Plex Media Server installs. More info on its settings can be found in our Advanced Settings Plex TV Series Agent article.

Mar 14, 2018 · TLDR; Don't use Plex Movie as your agent for the movie library. Use TMDB agent group (with the plex agent INSIDE that if you want it).

Jan 14, 2022 · As of version 1.20 of the Plex Media Server there is a new version of the Plex Movie agent/scanner that will be the default for new movie libraries. The older version of the Plex Movie agent is now called “Plex Movie (Legacy)”

May 7, 2022 · For General Movies and TV Shows, I will use the official Plex Scanner and Metadata Agent. It provides everything I need. For my Anime, I use my MyAnimeList Metadata Agent and the Absolute Series Scanner.

Sep 24, 2021 · The new Plex agents are basically meta-metadata agents, as they can use multiple third-party metadata services to match content. If you're worried about TVDB/TMDB specific differences, you can include the the id directly in the folder/file name for …

Apr 2, 2020 · Agents are used to fetch information about items in your library. They use various internet sites to fetch things like posters, plot summaries, directors, etc. You can change how the information is gathered using the Agent settings.

May 1, 2024 · “Combined Library Metadata Agent (Colima) in combination with Absolute Series Scanner (ASS) allows you to have movies and tv shows within the same library, something that Plex sadly not supports out of the box. Common scenarios to use this agent for are documentaries, western and Japanese animation libraries.”

Jul 22, 2020 · We’ve been testing and tweaking our new movie scanner and matching agent for a little while now with the help of many forum users (thank you!). We’re finally ready today to release this out into the wild with the current 1.20.0 beta release.

Amsa is an anime oriented Plex agent which has been designed to gather metadata from multiple sources in order to present you with the richest Plex experience available, it has been designed to allow you to store your shows in either the AniDB or TVDB standard whilst still benefitting from the input from both sites.

Plex Metadata Agents has 4 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.