We all know, that scanning a huge library takes time, and if doing indexing as well, take a very long time, and also leaves your PMS drained until Indexing is finished, so here's an idea
Plex goes out and by a huge amount of online storage
Plex creates a plug-in, that will do the following:
When you have added new media to your library, it get's identified.
The plug-in then checks if meta-data and index is already present @ the online Plex storage, and in the correct language.
If so, downloads from there.
If not, then do the usual stuff of fetching Meta-data and optional generate index, and when done, upload to Plex Online storage
This would be a payed service, just like Plex-Pass, and the benefits as I see it is the following:
It's a fallback if like tvdb etc goes offline.
When the online storage has grown, I take it that most index could be downloaded from Plex online storage, instead of having to be generated.
Could also benefits people running their PMS on low end ARM devices, with no chance of generate an index
Would provide Plex with a new income source
I think, that storing stuff like meta-data and index would not be illegal, as long as Plex doesn't store the medias them self, so
Thoughts?
/Tommy
