Keyboard shortcut request for Refresh Metadata

Feature Suggestions
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There are currently keyboard shortcuts, from within a video’s individual profile, for Edit Metadata and Get Info. Related to these functions is a keyboard shortcut for Refresh Metadata.

Many Plex users limit our Refresh Metadata scrapes, in order to save CPU usage, API hits, etc. When viewing multiple, individual movies, that makes the Refresh Metadata function become a repeated necessity.

Instead of drilling down on the ellipsis icon and then mousing over to Refresh Metadata, I recommend a keyboard shortcut for an individual video screens. “D” (for data) is my recommended keyboard shortcut for Refresh Metadata.

Most times, I see a dramatic shift in a movies rating when refreshing metadata, so it’s a valuable function. Making sure that Plex has the most recent metadata becomes especially valuable to re-run on a movie prior to watching or adding to a list.

Even if the user is scraping metadata often, the selected video’s or other timely metadata could be lagging behind its currently-available external metadata. This keyboard shortcut’s Refresh Data function can then update everything for that individual movie’s profile.

Yes, multiple movies and whole libraries can be selected to Refresh Metadata, which take extra time, when compared to an individual movie Refresh. A quick Refresh Metadata run takes little time, except for it’s current cursor-selected method. That is the reason for the keyboard shortcut request.

2

I’m not sure I fully follow your suggestion.
Why not simply use the scheduled tasks to let Plex automatically refresh the metadata? That sounds significantly easier than manually refreshing metadata – with or without a shortcut.

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Sorry if I didn’t make that clear. This suggestion applies to the post-editing of individual videos and becomes more integral when editing multiple back-to-back.

Right after editing each one, you’d want to make sure that its Match and retrieved metadata is accurate, prior to moving on.

Are referencing the ability to schedule a task to refresh recently edited files? I didn’t know of a parameter like that existing.

For the larger Plex libraries this suggestion is intended to target our Refresh Metadata command, instead of initiating a blanket Refresh Metadata operation which consumes extra resource (and API calls).