Server Version#: plexmediaserver-1.20.0.3181-0800642ec.x86_64 Player Version#: 4.34.4 Hello, I am running plex on Fedora with the version above. I have several hundred collections that plex automatically created plus a few that I manually created. I have noticed that the MovieDB now has good d…

Just refreshing metadata on a single item in the collection should refresh the collection’s title, summary and artwork as long as the following is true: The collection was automatically created by Plex using the new movie agent. None of the collection’s metadata fields are locked (we won’t overwri…

Ok. I just tried updating one collection by refreshing meta data on one movie ( actually all in the collection ). It did not update the collection title or artwork. I switched to the new movie agent when it became available, but 95% of my collections were created with the previous version. I …

probably the simplest manner is to go to Plex Web > whichever library > collection section > checkbox the first item, then shift checkbox the last item (all collections selected) > 3 dot menu > delete [image] then refresh metadata on library which should regenerate the automatically created collec…

This sounds really promising. I followed these steps and excluded the collections I had manually created. Then I had only a handfull of collections. Then I forced a meta update for all on the library and watched it go through all of my movies. However, now I still only have the collections …

maybe check other libraries for the same collections that may need removed also ?

I am not sure what you mean. All of these movies are only in this library.

yes but there could be collections of the same name in other libraries. this is how you would link movies to related tv shows, or music/soundtracks that said, I do not know why else the collections are not regenerating, unless perhaps it is related to the ‘slow responses to plex.direct’ forum noti…

If I move some files out of the directory and move them back in, then they collection is recreated just fine. But just doing a metadata update isn’t doing it.

I ended up having to do the “plex shuffle” to get all the collections to rebuild, but I do have the new collection posters and summaries which is nice. Hopefully I won’t have to do this again :slight_smile:

How to refresh Collection metadata?

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TeknoJunky August 18, 2020, 8:00pm 10

hmm I wonder if related to this subtitle issue @ New Plex Movie Agent Won't Recognize Some External Subtitles that according to last post should be fixed in upcoming build.

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How to refresh Collection metadata?

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