"Lock All" Metadata Button

[xpertxpert]

I have recently purchased a lifetime Plex pass and have been looking for the same feature when I found this thread. It would be very convenient if one of the options, when you have one or more titles selected, is to lock all metadata. I enjoy the functionality of Plex and purchased a lifetime pass to support further development. The ability to lock all metadata is a feature I would need to see added in order to recommend Plex to others. Thank you.

[biomoebious]

I find it bewildering that these and other similar posts have not lead to anything, heaven knows why. When I first installed Plex (2017 - yes I am a latecomer) I went through my library to amend photos, descriptions, genres etc only to find them revert to the original entries. I wish I had read these posts or knew of that before I wasted my time. I see from the above attempts of finding an answer of how unmatching would work but that is by far, user friendly. All other data for an artist maybe correct except for one entry like “There are 4 artists with this name” or an incorrect photo or absurd choice of genre. We don’t want to be forced into entering every field. It is so obviously user friendly to be able to use agent data and then change just a few data fields and then lock down the Artist/Album info when you are happy with it.
This is otherwise a great platform but I feel the R&D time and money is spent on the compatibility and expansion of plex rather than the interface itself.

[chuckster59]

I am on my third time in a month going through a hundred movies and having to fix a dozen. Very tiring and time-consuming. I am a lifetime Plex Pass purchaser. Just add the “lock all FOREVER button” for crying out loud and be done with it. THANK YOU!

[purposelycryptic]

I have no clue why this has yet to be implemented, despite years of requests - this should not be a big deal (Emby has had this functionality since MediaBrowser Server was first released, Kodi has had it for as long as I can remember, and all use similar metadata models).

I get that some of the dev team don’t see the point, but, frankly, that should not matter: you don’t need to understand why a lot of people want it, the fact that they do want it, and continue to ask for it for years, is what is important.

I presently have 1,690 series on my server - when I see a series/season/episode poster, backdrop or summary I don’t like, or that is just plain wrong, I manually change it; but having to manually go in and lock the fields for each series, season and episode for which perfectly acceptable metadata was fetched, just so they don’t get screwed up later (and this always, inevitably, happens), is just stupid (no offense).

All you need is 2 or 3 toggles (they can even be normally hidden as “Advanced Options”):

• One in the Series Metadata Editor - toggling it ‘On’ prevents any automated changes on the series, season and episode level.

• One in the Season Metadata Editor - toggling it ‘On’ prevents any automated changes on the season and episode level.

• Optionally, a sub-option for the previous two to leave episode-level metadata unlocked, so that currently airing series that may not have complete episode metadata available at the time the episode is added will still be updated.

  • If this was part of the implementation, rather than a toggle, a 3-item drop-down menu might be more appropriate, with options like ‘Unlocked’, ‘Locked’ and ‘Locked (Excluding Episodes)’, where ‘Unlocked’ would be the default state.

For all the above, manual changes would be unaffected, working the same as always, and toggling it ‘Off’ would not unlock individual fields that had been manually locked.

I picture it as series/season-level flags separate from the individual field lock-states, that would serve to inform the scanner/agent to ignore the series/season entirely during automated updates/refreshes and refresh-all calls, or mark it as hidden for those activities.

This would obviously be more complicated if episode-level metadata were optionally excluded from the lock, which is why I mentioned it as optional, as most users would likely be satisfied by the simpler “complete” lock.

Adding this functionality would be a major boon to overall usability, as it is quite frustrating to see good metadata items suddenly replaced just because someone decided to edit the TVDB entry. It should not be complicated to implement, and I can really see no good reason for it not having been implemented long ago

[Sebastos]

Still no answer ???

The original ask was from 2010 …

I was going to take a lifetime license but when I see that …