(That’s the three stacked horizontal lines, like a patty between two buns.)įor the Movies section, my personal preference is to have The Movie Database listed second. If local media is not at the top, the agents in the list can be reordered by dragging them by the hamburger icon.
An agent is a piece of software that tells Plex where to grab information about your media you always want local media to override anything found on the Internet. For Artists, Personal Media Artists and Last.fm, etc.įor each section that you’re using, go through all the sub-sections and make sure that Local Media Assets (section) is at the top of the list of agents. For TV Shows, it’s Personal Media Shows and TheTVDB. For movies, there’s Personal Media, Freebase, and The Movie Database. Each of those will have its own sub-sections. You’ll see each of the five possible sections listed across the top to the right Movies, TV Shows, Artists, Albums, Photos. With settings open, click into Agents on the left. I prefer The Movie Database and The TV Database, with Local Media first. Photos and home videos won’t have data that can be scraped from the Internet, so you can skip this step if one or both of those are your only Plex sections. For this purpose we’re really only concerned about TV Shows, Movies, and maybe Music. We’re going to verify that your metadata agents are ordered correctly to give your media library the best information sources possible. Head to your Plex server settings that’s the screwdriver and wrench icon in the upper right, next to the search field. If you stick around though, I can give you a couple more basic tips to make the experience even better. The metadata retrieval doesn’t have to be finished for you to play back your content. Once the scan is done, you can immediately start streaming your Plex content to Plex players for your mobile devices, consoles, set-top boxes, computers whatever you’ve got that can run one. You should be aware that the scan can take a while to complete, and that even after the scan is complete, it will still work for a while on downloading metadata for your library.
Once you’ve done that far, you’re all set! Your new Plex server will begin scanning your library and you’ll see shows and movies and other media begin to populate the database. Repeat these steps for each section you’d like to include. Hunt around for your Multimedia directory. There is a category list down the left hand side of the App Center click into Entertainment, and Plex should be there. The first thing you’re going to want to do is head over to the App Center. If your QNAP is Intel-based, you should be good to go please continue! See the notes on ARM-based QNAP systems at the end of this article. They can run it in a slightly more limited capacity. This is because ARM processors aren’t quite up to the task of running Plex in all of its glory, so proceed with caution. One note of warning if the QNAP you own is ARM-based rather than Intel-based, Plex is only available as a 3rd party experimental feature. Among those optional packages is Plex, a very popular video streaming platform.
QNAP has a great app system built in that will let you install all kinds of optional software packages to expand the usefulness of your system. So you’ve got a QNAP and you followed my directions to get it set up to serve media via DLNA, and now you’re thinking you’d like to run a Plex server to get a nicer interface? I can help you with that.
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