Announcement: State of EPG & TV metadata in Plex

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For those of you that didn’t see this comment in the other thread… we’re not just returning to the code we had before.

New Plex Guide Very Poor in UK

PMS won’t be calling Gracenote directly via their API. Instead, PMS, and all clients actually, will be calling our own cloud EPG provider directly. This affords us the opportunity to potentially augment/improve the base level Gracenote metadata in the future. Let’s say hypothetically that we have problems with the new provider’s series sequencing (I don’t expect this to be the case, as it has been with the current provider) this would allow us to swap out that portion of the metadata in favor of…