Why would you want to have the rating added to the summary when you already have the star system? Precision: the value written to the summary slot won’t be the rounded-to-the-nearest-star value, but the actual points or percentage from the service you selected. In the screenshot below, you can see we’ve opted for Rotten Tomatoes with the summary feature. Here you want to check “Rating”, selecting which ratings you want IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes, and optionally, you can have the plugin write the rating to the summary. The part we care about is all the way down at the bottom, so scroll down until you see the entry for “Rating”. If you like the way things are setup in Plex, except for the ratings, then you can play it safe and uncheck everything. Check or uncheck the general metadata entries as you see fit. It is at your discretion whether you want to pull down general data (like release dates, plot summaries, etc.) in addition to the IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes ratings. The settings menu for the plugin is a lengthy one with toggles for every bit of metadata that can be pulled from the Open Movie Database. Before you do anything else, click on the gear on the right hand side of the Open Movie Database entry. You’ll see a list of available agents, including our freshly added “Open Movie Database” agent. Within the Agents menu, select Movies and then The Movie Database. Once you’ve copied the file over, restart your Plex Media server by shutting down the Plex application (if you’re on Windows or macOS) or issuing the command sudo service plexmedia server restart if you’re on a Linux or unix-like system.Īfter the restart, open up the web interface for your Plex Media Server and navigate to Settings > Server > Agents. chown -R plex:plex OpenMovieDatabase.bundle. On Linux, FreeNAS, and other operating systems with stricter permission systems, you may need to grant access to folder for the user “plex” by using an appropriate permissions command on the folder, e.g. FreeNAS Jail: /usr/pbi/plexmediaserver-amd64/share/plexmediaserver/Resources/Plug-ins/Ĭopy the whole folder “OpenMovieDatabase.bundle” into that directory.Linux: $PLEX_HOME/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins.macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins.Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server\Plug-ins\. ![]() Here’s where you’ll find that directory on various operating systems: With the plugin folder in hand, simply drop it into the Plex plugin directory. ![]() Next to the entry for “Plex Movie” within the list of scrapers, click on the settings icon, as seen below. Within the Agents menu, select “Movies” and then “Plex Movie”. To adjust the default ratings scraper on your Plex Media Server, open the web-based interface for your server and navigate to Settings > Server > Agents. Option One: Adjusting the Default Scraper to Use New Sources We’re outlining both methods here so that, should the simple method fail in the future before of pressure put on Plex by either IMDb or Rotten Tomatoes, you can still pull rankings from those sites into your Plex ecosystem. Why choose one over the other? While tweaking the Plex scraper works fine now, historically Plex has had a thorny relationship with IMDb, because IMDb has argued that Plex’s use of the ratings is commercial use (even though the rating data is downloaded by individuals at home and not the actual Plex company). You can take the easy route and tweak the existing Plex Movies scraper, or you can take the (very slightly) harder route and install a totally new scraper that pulls ratings from IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes by way of The Open Movie Database. If you want more accurate ratings pulled from a broader pool of movie reviewers, there are two ways you can go about it. ![]() This is how you end up with so many movies in Plex that have 3/5 stars-many of the rated movies on The Movie Database only have a few reviews and average 5-6 out of 10, which translates to 3/5 in the Plex interface. ![]() While we love The Movie Database, and it’s great for getting most metadata (like artwork and direction/cast information), the rating side of things simply isn’t as well developed the ratings on sites like IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes.
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