“Metadata” includes all the added & displayed content Plex gives you over and above simply displaying your TV episodes and movies.
Examples include:
- Genre
- Cast
- Links to other works by those cast members
- Collections
Those type of things. All the extra information to enrich your basic media file.
I don’t know the details of what they’re doing beyond that they have been working on correcting this ‘size ballooning’ problem.
Most of us have database file sizes in the 200-300 MB range (even for servers like mine with my content of 50,000 files; movies, episodes, and music.)
There were those users who experienced a ballooning effect. The database grew in size from 200 MB → 3 GB for no reason.
The cause here has been identified and repaired. It won’t happen again.
What they’re finishing now is how to “clean out that junk” which crept in without loss of any information.
I would not ‘burn down’ an existing server.
I would give Engineering a chance. Let’s not do anything without first evaluating what they have.
I have some captured examples of databases reconstructed here.
When they have software for me to test – I’ll test it.
Barring any “tweaks” you’ll see it within a day or two after I do.
I don’t know if they’ll replace the existing 1.25.2 or replace it with 1.25.3. That’s their decision.
