Not Sure What I'm doing wrong

[sebastiangoldstein]

Let me start off by saying I really hope I can get your personal shows agent working.
My old plex machine died and - tried to relocate my old Plex metadata to my new install on a new machine - NO GO!
I had 4000+ instructional tutorial videos (magic) which I had painstakingly tagged with cover art etc... in Plex - now all gone. Now they are unsearchable and unrecognizable.

So while rebuilding I did some research and found your agent. I love the idea of keeping the cover images and metadata saved with the video files so if plex ties and I have to rebuild my library again it will already be there.

I downloaded your personal shows agent bundle and installed it in Plex - This apparently works because Plex presents me with the Personal Shows option while setting up a library.

Then I created a test library of only one folder (one series) naming everything as instructed in the tutorial and creating a meta.json do drop in the season.

But still, I get no images or meta date in my TV series:

and no episode descriptions:

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
-Sebastian

[sebastiangoldstein]

OK, I've been messing around with this a bunch and I solved some of my own issues but still not getting the meta.json to work correctly.
Problems Fixed:

1. covers/posters can't have a ".jpeg" or "png" extension - must be ".jpg" to work.
2. each season must have its own season number. This sounds obvious, but in my scenario, I have one magician (performer) who made several instructional videos each with multiple tracks. So for the Seasons to be named properly every DVD must be given a unique season number

Making those corrections has got me halfway there.
Still can't figure out:

1. Top Level Posters:

you can see I have a cover file in the top-level but it doesn't display as the main show poster.

2. I can't get the meta.json file to populate the metadata. Can you post a sample complete meta.json file so I can check my formatting?

Thanks in advance...

[suparngp]

This is how I have one of the tutorial series.

meta.json

{
    "actors": [{
        "name": "Danny Gill",
        "role": "Guitarist",
        "photo": ""
    }],
    "publisher": "Lick Library",
    "tags": ["Tutorials", "Guitar", "Music Theory"]
}

[jchen1624]

@sebastiangoldstein
Were you ever able to get this working the way you wanted? I cannot even get the episode titles to show. Plex only displays "Episode 1", "Episode 2", "Episode 3" etc.