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Frederic Esser edited this page Mar 22, 2023 · 1 revision

Installation

The Agent

Download the Agent from the Releases page

Installation is straight forward, place the MyAnimeList.bundle folder into the directories (depending on your OS) listed below and restart your Plex Media Server (Note: Plex only loads the Agent on restart!).

Directories:

  • Linux: /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/
  • Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server\Plug-ins

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The Scanners

Anime usually rely on an absolute episode numbering format instead of organizing them through seasons. Therefore I recommend using scanners that follow this format:

Which scanner you use is up to you but there are some things that you should know:

The 'Better Absolute Scanner (BABS)' is not able to identify episodes with a 4 digit episode number, episodes above and including 1000 would not be added to your library. The 'Absolute Series Scanner (ASS)', on the other hand, will add those episodes with 4 digit episode number to your library, but it will also remove anything in brackets like (TV) from the title.

This can lead to a matching problem. An example:

  • Big Order (TV) - MAL-ID=31904
  • Big Order - MAL-ID=30137

As you can see, those are two different releases one (30137) being the OVA version while the other (31904) is the TV version. If you now would have your folder named according to my recommendation Big Order (TV) the following would happen:

  • By using BABS a new Library item with the title Big Order (TV) would be created and matched to the correct MAL-ID 31904
  • By using ASS a new Library item with the title Big Order would be created and matched to the incorrect MAL-ID 30137

The result of this would be that you would still have a somewhat similar Show metadata in Plex but no Episode title.

See the Matching Wiki Page for a way on how to address this problem.

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