Metadata

TinyMediaManager

Metadata and naming tool

TinyMediaManager helps prepare local metadata, artwork, and naming for media libraries.

What It Does

• Manages local metadata files and artwork for movies and shows.
• Supports consistent naming decisions outside the media-server scanner.
• Helps keep libraries portable when metadata should live beside the files.

How Stackarr Fits

Stackarr can include TinyMediaManager in setup, enable its private keyed HTTP API for approved scans and metadata actions, apply naming presets, link the visual service, and back up durable metadata databases while skipping rebuildable caches and add-ons.

Radarr and Sonarr remain responsible for importing, moving, and naming media. After a completed import, Stackarr copies recognized video extras into Plex-compatible folders, then calls tinyMediaManager's HTTP API to update its internal database and scrape new items. The automated request never includes a rename action.

Editions

Stackarr's Radarr preset uses Radarr's Edition Tags value to add Plex's {edition-Edition Name} marker to the movie filename. Radarr does not allow the edition token in its movie-folder pattern, but Plex supports the marker in either location. To stay aligned with Radarr, tinyMediaManager keeps the movie folder as Title (Year) and adds the same marker to the filename when an edition has been detected or selected in tinyMediaManager. If tinyMediaManager's internal edition field is empty, the Stackarr preset preserves an existing Plex edition marker from the current video filename instead. This prevents a manual tinyMediaManager rename from undoing a Radarr edition name. Edition information must be present in the release name or set explicitly; metadata scrapers cannot reliably infer which physical release a file came from.

Plex TV editions apply to a show as a whole. Sonarr and tinyMediaManager do not currently model that same show-level edition value, so Stackarr leaves the TV show root-folder pattern empty in tinyMediaManager. This prevents a manual tinyMediaManager rename from stripping an explicit Plex edition marker from a folder such as Babylon 5 (1994) {edition-Bluray Remaster}. Manage the edition-tagged series path in Sonarr so Sonarr continues to track imports in that folder. Separate copies of the same series may require separate Sonarr instances because a single Sonarr instance manages only one copy of a series.

When Agregarr placeholders are enabled, Stackarr adds the configured placeholder folder (default _Trailers) to the movie and TV skipFolder settings before tinyMediaManager scans either source. Changing the folder in Stackarr's Agregarr settings updates both systems the next time stackarr configure runs.