Correct. It’s only affecting the 1.41.7 beta.
I can confirm that XBMCnfoTVImporter (and probably also XBMCnfoMoviesImporter) are affected.
Does anyone have a TL;DR for me on what’s the plan for legacy agents like the ones mentioned above? I can’t find a good summary on the topic and their upcoming support removal.
I think there are two different things to say about this here.
In this topic and version 1.41.7, the Agents weren’t removed but rather stopped functioning (you could still see them in the “Legacy Agents” view in the Server settings). But when you added a new library item, metadata wouldn’t be downloaded and added to the item and “match” and “fix match” search results were empty.
Rolling back to 1.41.6 seems to fix the issue. As stated in the second reply, this seems to be a bug because the “old” metadata agents aren’t a priority as of now.
As for legacy agents in general, well, they have been removed (on the Nvidia Shield with 1.41) and should be removed on other Platforms as well at some point.
Plex has stated that they are working on an alternative but it isn’t clear what that alternative will look like or functions. But from what I gathered, it won’t be a 1:1 system, so you won’t be able to just keep using those old agents in the new system anymore. As for the NFO importers. IIRC they did say that they want to add NFO support in the official Plex Agents. This would mean that you don’t necessarily need a 3rd party agent for that but could just use the official Agents.
This is based on the Fireside chat from last year.
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Thanks for the summary on this topic and the link to the Fireside topic. I’ll dig through it later. Official NFO support would be awesome, fingers crossed!
As for downgrading Plex to 1.41.6: Synology somehow blocks downgrading to previous versions. So I’ll have to wait for a new beta release with this fix.
If you have 180,000 items and shared users, maybe you shouldn’t install Plex betas on your main library.
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That’s why 100% of my Plex directories are backed up daily.
Plus, that’s a great opinion, but if only users with 300 items tested these beta builds, many issues would never be discovered before the official release.
I’ve been beta testing software since the mid 1980’s, been in product development from the early 2000’s until recently - I’ve got a pretty good understanding of how the process works.
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Just to notify someone at Plex… I was unaware that 1.41.7 was beta as it showed update available in Plex. I thought those were stable versions for public release and not beta versions.
Side note when I updated to that beta my Plex became unavailable and kept saying check internet connection. I went back to my previous version everything is good again. I hope somehow this helps
When did you install it?
This version left beta 3 days ago and has been released to everyone. (Stable version)
I just did it like 10 mins ago and wasn’t sure what happened so I reverted back. Should I try again?
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