I think I already saw this feature on a Plex client, to be honest I thought it was the web client, but I can’t find it now…
Maybe it also needs to be added to the Actor’s list as well, but I really appreciated the chronological list of that actor’s filmography and the added info on which server it can be found.
The only thing I was missing there was its IMDb score.
I have a fairly large collections of almost all movies made that are worth watching and this feature could help me find some hidden gems.
Often a certain director/actor makes the kind of movies you like and highlighting the movies you miss helps to find him.
The IMDb score given often corresponds with what I think are good movies, so that info would help me.
Filmography for Plex Web
If it’s already in Plex Web, then also add it to the normal actor’s overview
It’s missing in my movies as well, BUT, I added a new movie library to segregate 4K content from SD/HD, and for some reason, the 4K movies’ cast listings show full cross-library and filmography cast lookup information on all the clients I tested.
Weird!
I would REALLY like to fix this, as I believe it’s a database table structure problem that’s “grandfathered in” from old PMS versions. I really would prefer to correct the problem v recreating a massive and complex library. A bit of SQL? A few lines of Python?
EDIT:
I have confirmed that if you delete your library and recreate it, cast lookup is different than legacy, showing cross-library references, filmography, etc. Hmmm.
I see that as a bug in 1.32.0.6918 and probably others since a data conversion shouldn’t be that difficult.
I appreciate the response. I’ve seen that page. Its recommendations include invalid information, such as:
“Upgrade Matching” isn’t an option on the latest PMS. The “Olde” library is using the same agents as as the test library I created from the same folder (which includes the new cast information). The Olde library has different collections but it’s configuration is otherwise identical.
My PMS is going to be busy for a very long time, days, generating the test-v2 library from the entire folder. There’s no way to stop that once it’s started but that’s a different rabbit hole.
That has nothing to do with “invalid information”.
It just tries to guide users to use the new metadata agent, which is a prerequisite for getting the filmography.
This may be scary, but have you ran “Refresh Metadata” for your existing library? If the library is old enough, the movies in it might have the “legacy” ID numbers, which don’t use this new “Discover Credits” feature, which prevents the cross-library referencing and the ability to see non-library titles in their “Known for” area.
I do that every time PMS upgrades. It’s probably unnecessary, but there’s no way to know from the user/admin side and I’ve facepalmed before.
The update could do that during the “triggers” phase of updating, but I imagine the Build side of the development team doesn’t talk with the Code side very often. That’s how Development, QA and Build segments usually operate (edit: at other orgs!) until an escalation forces a call.
Actually, I’d check first if “Include adult content” is truly disabled.
It appears to be from Libraries->SelectedLib->Edit->Advanced
Is there another place where it can be enabled? I’ve looked but didn’t see another checkbox.
If you want to see to which metadata agent an item has been matched, take a look at the Plex media info XML of that item.
At the content of the XML property guid="... (all lower case!) in particular.
I’m guessing that the metadata refresh was queued behind the creation of the testv2 library I created, but this morning, the metadata had refreshed and cast data is working!
I really thought I was going to have to spend weeks fixing things on a new library.
My next child will be named in honor of ALL you guys. This I swear.
