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I was excited to see that with the latest beta PMS, there was finally an automated, periodic way to get fresh metadata, if only for movies at this time. Five days after install, this feature finally kicked in via scheduled tasks (“Refresh library metadata periodically”), but strangely enough, this morning it said “The butler refreshed 0 movies. The butler refreshed 63 seasons. The butler refreshed 0 artists.” So, it looks like as if this currently applies only to TV Shows, and not to Movies. Anyone else notice this?
For me it reported movies last night but the number 3 was odd as I’d added way more than 3 in the past week which was release recently …
dokuro@dokuro:/data/Personal/Scripts$ grep -a "Butler: Periodic metadata refresh complete" /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Logs/Plex\ Media\ Server*.log
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/Plex Media Server.2.log:Jan 24, 2022 05:59:44.499 [0x7f7182935b38] DEBUG - Butler: Periodic metadata refresh complete (movies: 3, seasons: 9, artists: 0)
dokuro@dokuro:/data/Personal/Scripts$ grep -a "Butler: refreshing metadata" /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Logs/Plex\ Media\ Server*.log
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/Plex Media Server.2.log:Jan 24, 2022 05:59:08.705 [0x7f7182935b38] DEBUG - Butler: refreshing metadata for 9 seasons because they contain episodes released in the past week
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/Plex Media Server.2.log:Jan 24, 2022 05:59:08.759 [0x7f7182935b38] DEBUG - Butler: refreshing metadata for 3 movies because they have been released in the past 2 weeks
dokuro@dokuro:/data/Personal/Scripts$
All the periodic metadata refreshes only refresh certain things. For newly released movies (released in the past 3 months) it will refresh more at least once a week (daily for really new stuff). For movies released prior to that period it will try to make sure the metadata is never older than 30 days but it will limit to 100 items daily here currently.
This will likely be tweaked going forward as we figure out what’s the best combination.
Ah, that makes sense. I did a complete metadata refresh of all my libraries about a week ago, so it must have taken that into account. Thanks for adding this feature!
Agreed, its a really nice feature. I do however find the new scanners so fast that I just force refresh everything myself weekly. They are amazingly fast
Would that be theatrical release date ? If so then 2 weeks would be kinda pointless as the periodic scanner would most likely miss them. Folks will most likely add shortly after its available on VOD or Physical disk. However, working out that release date would be VERY tricky.
The 2 weeks rule is to catch those things that are really new only as these are things were metadata can change frequently (e.g. ratings can fluctuate a lot). Once a movie has been out for a about 3 months the metadata is generally more stable and there shouldn’t be large changes.
But as I said, I will monitor how well this works and tweak accordingly. If you have suggestions on what you think will work well please feel free to make them.
This sounds about right. I tend to only refresh the very new stuff periodically, as to keep up with ratings, etc. Older movies don’t get updated much, but every once in a while someone sneaks in a change, wanted or not. For example, Dr. No has been stuck with a Russian poster for a while now LOL (and I’m too lazy to change it manually). TV Show metadata, as we all know, is a much bigger mess, and gets updated/changed constantly, for better or for worse.
