Metadata taking a while for Plex to update

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Seems as though Plex is pulling data in extremely slowly, im talking sometimes 4 weeks after the data has been added to thetvdb/tmdb. Sonarr, which also uses thetvdb is only taking 3-6hrs to update the same metadata.

Why is Plex taking so long to update the meta for shows?

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I’ve been seeing the same issues with the Plex Movie Agent taking weeks to update for changes to TMDB. It definitely isn’t a TMDB API issue because other stuff that uses the API reflects the changes within a day. I haven’t noticed it with TVDB, but I mostly using TMDB.

The delay seems to have started in the last month or so, prior to that we were seeing the usual 2-3 day delay, but now it is 2-3 weeks if we are lucky. This really isn’t feasible if you are trying to add and watch stuff as it releases.

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