Hey all!
I’ve been using Plex for over a year now and love it. This is a super small feature request that really won’t have much bearing on most users, but I think it would be nice. If you add multiple genres, writers, or directors to the metadata of a file, they all are separated by commas and show up as such, which is great. I don’t understand why this wasn’t extended to the studio category.
The non-Plex metadata editor I use allows for multiple studios separated by commas. I think this is reasonable as multiple studios generally work on one movie. This would be helpful to consolidate movies so when sorted by studio, “Anchorman” will appear under both Apataow Productions and Universal Pictures.
Thanks
But production companies are not studios. I don’t know of any movie with 2 actual studios listed.
Might be more accurate to ask for production companies to be included as a metadata item.
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Hmm. I guess this is true but I really feel this is more of a red delicious vs. granny smith than a apples and oranges issue. Production companies work for studios, but even in the case of say Spider-Man Homecoming, although very atypical, that was two studios working together jointly.
I think that this still would be nice one way or another.
@anon18523487 I too would like this to be considered. I’ll use Toy Story 4 as an example. When using TMDB to get the metadata the studio is updated based on the production information and this movie has two, both Pixar and Disney – you can see it https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/301528-toy-story-4/edit?active_nav_item=production_information&language=en-US
However, on plex only 1 is shown which is Disney (guessing as its the first one on the list and most likely returned from the api). Having more than 1 stored would make the filtering by studio much more accurate and useful.
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Those are listed as production companies. See my comment above.
@anon18523487 maybe I’m wrong but does’nt the plex metadata for studio get its data from the production company on TMDB ?
I’m not actually sure. I thought there was an actual “studio” data field, but I don’t see it. I don’t see it for IMDB either. I’ll have to look into this.
Thank you. If you check in plex using metadata from TMDB for toy story movies the first three are pixar while the fourth is disney.
Any movement on this? This is also an “issue” with TV shows.
Westworld with TheMovieDB as the agent: https://i.imgur.com/HuCLcSA.png
Westworld with TVDB as the agent: https://i.imgur.com/ZjlgHyP.png
TVDB does not list production companies, so the the network it airs on is the “studio.” I would much prefer a field that allowed me to click on “HBO” to see all of the shows in my library that aired on HBO, rather than ones that were produced by a different company.
Is there a way I can edit the TMDB agent to pull network (like already happens with TVDB) instead of production company?
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It would be great to have multiple studios (Just like genre) there are lots of tv shows that started production with one network and continued on a second network
ie:
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Fox, NBC)
The Orville (Fox, Hulu)
American Dad! (Fox, TBS)
A.P. Bio (NBC. Peacock)
Just to name a few it would be great to have this functionality,
Many, many movies have multiple studios listed in my library. They are comma separated, but because the Studio field is just a text box instead of comma separated tags, they show up in filters as long strings of text. It means one studio/production company could be listed multiple times but as entirely separate entries.
Even with TV shows it doesn’t make sense to just allow a single entry, even if most metadata agents are only serving one Stuido/Network per show. TV shows move networks more and more and it’s be nice to be able to have the filters in Plex more accurately display that. (Examples: Trailer Park Boys, Designated Survivor, The Expanse, Baywatch, JAG, Arrested Development, etc.)
Pretty simple change to respect how Plex’s paying customers want to use and display their metadata.
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With the movie agent update last year and the updates currently happen to the TV agent could this be looked into again please ? All we are looking for is that Studio be allowed to have multiple values like other fields have.
Btw… as an example if I look on mediaverse.plex.tv at Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope via mediaverse.plex.tv/movie/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope you will see the following …
… clearly showing more than 1 studio (Lucasfilm Ltd., 20th Century Fox).
When can we hope to see multiple studios within our local plex servers ?
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With the release of Smart Collections and Advanced Filtering this really needs to be addressed. The new agent also needs to start downloading all production companies (that’s the TMDB tag Plex uses to populate Studios, there is no separate Studios tag tracked by these agents/websites), instead of just the top one listed on TMDb. It lists them in Mediaverse and previous agents were downloading multiple production companies and comma-separating them.
Addressing this in combination with the recently released features could really help a lot of people organize their libraries better!
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I will chime in here and agree heavily with @anon29732333 - with Smart Collections in place this should definitely be addressed. I can’t be the only one who wants to be able to create collections like “Happy Madison Productions” or “Pixar” or “Disney” which often fall under numerous production companies/studios.
I see there was another thread previously where @BigWheel mentioned it was being discussed, but looks like that topic was auto-closed after 90 days. Any updates on this by chance?
Thanks!
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A reminder that Plex’s own metadata database lists multiple studios for films and they refuse to allow their own apps to download the information.
SYNERGY!
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@anon18523487 @BigWheel - any comment/update on this?
No comment. 
Seriously though, Plex doesn’t provide ETAs on when/if something may be done so I have no info to share.
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As far as I can tell we are starting work on changing studio to be stored as a tag so there can be multiple. I believe there is also consideration for things like tv networks, productions companies and such. Can’t make any promises about ETA’s
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