Incorrect metadata on most of collection, need to unlock all fields and refresh metadata

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Hello,

 

It seems that most of the metadata for my media collection is incorrect. The titles of the movies are fine, but the actors and whatnot are way off from what they should be. I would like to refresh all the metadata in all my files (preserving the 'watched' status of everything), but all of the fields in all of the files are locked. Is there an easy way to unlock all of the metadata fields in order to re-scrape with a deep scan? 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Hello,

It seems that most of the metadata for my media collection is incorrect. The titles of the movies are fine, but the actors and whatnot are way off from what they should be. I would like to refresh all the metadata in all my files (preserving the 'watched' status of everything), but all of the fields in all of the files are locked. Is there an easy way to unlock all of the metadata fields in order to re-scrape with a deep scan? 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Just do a forced refresh.

You'll get better actor info if you change the priority of the metadata agents...

moviepostersdb first

themoviesdb second

then the rest

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try this

wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/Media_Naming_and_Organization_Guide#Movie_Content

and this

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/37466-is-there-an-ideal-setup-to-grab-the-best-metadata/?p=239129

and/or this (older post but nothing big changed since 2010)

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/19942-best-metadata-agent-settings/?p=121136

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Just do a forced refresh.

You'll get better actor info if you change the priority of the metadata agents...

moviepostersdb first

themoviesdb second

then the rest

This worked perfectly, thank you for your help!