Sorry but the new scraper is absolute garbage, especially for TV series. There needs to be a way to make the upgrade nag message go away without making me screw up all of my metadata.
How is it screwed up? Well…
- It matches things incorrectly and flat refuses to provide anything remotely correct when I try to fix a mismatch. I tried picking TVDB from the source list, but it doesn’t show the name even though I know for a fact that it was there when using Plex Series Scanner and TVDB.
- Several of my series just plain disappear after switching to the new scraper. Ex: The Ken Burns Mayo clinic documentary disappeared without a trace. The media files are there and it comes back if I switch back to the older Plex Series Scanner with TVDB as the source. Plex dance has no effect.
- Even if the series is correct all of the description metadata is lost. There was data there but it got wiped out by the new agent. The names for episodes within TV series frequently gets replaced with the air date with nothing else. The TVDB site has all of the metadata available. If I switch back to the old scraper, the data comes back and is identical to what TVDB has. I’m not sure what the source for the new scanner is but it is most certainly not TVDB since the data is flat wrong.
- New episodes I record from the Plex DVR are often end up the same as #3 where I only get an air date, nothing else. Again using the old scraper get me the correct data. This is especially hilarious since the channel guide on the DVR is usually correct.
I have tried doing the old Plex dance. Nothing changes except it takes slightly longer to find the same wrong data.
The only thing that fixes the screwed up data is to switch back to the old scraper and rescan.
Example of episodes missing in PBS Frontline when the new scraper is selected
Yet the data is on the server
The same series and season but with the old scraper
