Same Movie - Same Folder - Different Ext and Format

[ab123ga 15]

Question: I'm in the process of re-encoding all of my movies into a different format (and extension) and put them in the same folder where the original was.. I'm planning on removing the original so I only have the new one. Is there a way to prevent MB from seeing the new format/extension as a separate movie and adding it's own meta data etc? Since I use both MB and Plex, I have to do the following dance to minimize manual clean up. 

 

1) Shutdown MB

2) Add new movie

3) Do a manual update in Plex (Plex then shows 2 copies of the movie...puts a 2 in the corner)

4) Remove the old movie

5) Do another manual update in Plex (now has 1 movies)

6) Start MB. MB does a scan and the new movie holds the metadata posters, etc of the original

 

Prior to doing the above, I would just add the new and remove the old before MB had a chance to do a refresh. The problem with that when Plex does an update, it sees this as a newly added movie and I want to maintain my "recently added" in both MB and Plex.

 

No big deal if there's no way to do this. The above works fine.

 

 

[AdrianW 1058]

Why not just disable the "Scan media library" schedule task whilst you do all this re-encoding.  (Advanced > Schedule Tasks).

 

And then re-enable it after you've finished. In the mean time you can manually run scans when you want to (there's a button at the bottom of the "Library" section).

[ab123ga 15]

Yes... I suppose I could do that but I would also have to shut down the real time monitoring as well.  That's probably a better option than shutting down the server each time I get a new batch. Thanks much...