I’m often adding episodes of shows to my plex library before the show has been added to TMDB or TVDB. When this happens I add an entry to TMDB/TVDB then add my episode to plex. Since the episode was just entered on TMDB no meta data gets pulled into plex. If I go back a few days later and refresh th…

If the items are actually not matched, you can filter the library to only show those items For TV shows filter the library to “episodes” Then to unmatched [Screenshot (774)] You can just select everything in that view “Shift + left click” and use the menu at top “more” Refresh the metadata for …

[image] Plex Media Server Announcements Plex Media Server 1.30.0.6359 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. NEW: (PlexMatch) Add support for pattern matching (#13899) (Scheduled Tasks) Perform periodic metadata refreshes on TV shows too (#13920…

I assume you are talking about: (Scheduled Tasks) Perform periodic metadata refreshes on TV shows too (#13920) Any info on how this will work. I don’t want/need it to refresh metadata if it already exists.

This: We refresh artists, that was updated in PMS less than a month ago We refresh seasons, if episodes was released less than a week ago We refresh episodes, which are missing summaries or thumbnails and haven’t been refreshed in the last month. We refresh movies released in the past 2 weeks We r…

Thanks for the info! This will be great once it’s out of beta. In the mean time is there anyway to find episodes missing metadata? specifically title.

[image] dane22: We refresh Movies released more than 3 months ago that haven’t been refreshed in the past month. (Max 100 at a time) 100 per Night or in what frequency? Because if you have some 1000 Movies, once a week would need more than a year and also they would be always not refreshed f…

[image] Soluna: per Night This ^^

@dane22 … TX 4 you response… Just would like to ask, if this Setting is always activated or just if you select " Refresh metadata periodically"? (In the Support Article is nothing written about refreshing Movies under this setting).

[image] Soluna: just if you select " Refresh metadata periodically"? This ^^

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