@anon18523487 said:
Plex does not consider how “Refresh” works as a bug, so it is unlikely it’s behavior will change. We are aware that people do want the ability to basically re-add an item as if it were brand new and we looking at how to do that. We get that doing the dance is not intuitive for some and hope to be able to find a way so it won’t be needed in the future.
Actually, what so many people have been asking for is NOT a way to “re-add an item as if it were brand new.” What we’ve been asking for is for Plex to re-import changed metadata (whether it comes from embedded tags or online sources) the way people intuitively expect it to.
One of the posts astrofisher found:
Others:
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/177727/updating-id3-tags-in-music-portion
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/233541/refresh-doesnt-update-track-artist
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/241961/refresh-use-updated-file-tags
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/220895/cant-seem-to-force-server-to-forget-deleted-actor-tags
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/166068/refresh-music-library-based-on-id3-tag-changes-only
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/157763/refreshing-metadata-doesnt-seem-to-work
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/142092/refreshing-for-individual-items
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/160360/refreshing-updated-id3-m4a-metadata
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/215949/correct-tags-for-music-libraries
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/164659/plex-music-media-library-not-updating-after-mp3-tags-changed
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/160123/force-refresh-individual-items
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/128166/library-not-updating-after-forced-update-refresh
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/164907/plex-web-not-registering-changes-to-mp3-tags
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/168994/music-tag-changes-not-updating
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/206804/how-do-i-get-pms-to-recognize-metadata-for-music-files-that-was-updated-by-a-different-program
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1107198/#Comment_1107198
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/203991/how-do-i-force-pms-to-use-new-embedded-poster-from-tv-shows
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/957923/#Comment_957923
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/807639/#Comment_807639
- https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/185994/metadata-tag-changes-for-music-files-in-premium-plex-music-library
Additional threads found or started since this list was compiled:
21. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/260004/rescan-id3-tags
22. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/264293/plex-not-picking-up-information-on-mp3s
23. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/249905/music-library-extras
24. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/246027/plex-fails-to-update-after-updating-tags
25. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/246010/refreshing-music-library-after-editing-id3-tags
26. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/263240/duplicate-songs-in-library
27. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/255316/plex-movie-agent-will-not-pull-metadata-from-imdb-for-existing-library-items
28. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/269336/refresh-does-not-actually-refresh-the-metadata
29. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1429341/#Comment_1429341
30. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/274972/how-to-get-album-reviews-working
31. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/279007/refresh-music-folder
32. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/280807/bug-how-to-manually-fix-personal-photo-and-video-dates
33. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/282676/compilation-cds
34. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/285281/dealing-with-metadata-changes-in-music
35. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/294000/force-refresh-metadata
36. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/294829/refresh-embedded-metadata#top
37. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/300684/plex-is-obsessed-with-using-the-wrong-music-artist#top
38. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1660419#top
39. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1659958#top
40. https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/318724/nvidia-shield-4k-remux-mkv-quality-and-playback-woes
41. TV detection of episodes with NxN in the program title breaks
42. A certain new movie will not show/stay on Plex Server
43. Unable to update metadata on albums
44. New Merging/Not Merging Tactic is Buggy/Quite Annoying
45. Plex frustration with music tags
46. Music: Important change request for Box-Sets and Classical Music
47. https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-server-is-rubbish-what-a-waste-of-100-for-lifetime-pass/300408/12
48. Cover art and MP3 tag issues - newbie!
49. Plex Windows Server does not refresh music album metadata
50. https://forums.plex.tv/t/option-to-refresh-music-album-metadata/408660
51. https://forums.plex.tv/t/why-is-tag-data-not-updating/422167
52. https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-wont-see-s01e01-but-renaming-it-it-sees-it/422249
53. https://forums.plex.tv/t/alternative-to-removing-library-then-cleaning-bundles-and-adding-it-back-again-to-refresh-metadata/425987
54. https://forums.plex.tv/t/refresh-not-working/159659
