What is it and what’s new? We’re working on some upgrades to our movie metadata infrastructure, and we’d like to give you a peek at what’s in store. The major changes are a brand new scanner and agent, rebuilt from the ground up to be lean and super speedy, and a cloud-based metadata service that do…

Mind posting a screenshot so I have some context?

I have removed the offending Library but here is a screenshot. I hope that makes some sense [Screen Shot 2020-05-27 at 11.06.59 am]

I just loaded it and started it to scan my full library of media… Usually it takes 14 hours to complete, I can tell it’s much faster… also the old one would slow over time this one is using all 4 cores almost at 100% each… much improvement… will see how the matching come out…

I’m finding it extremely fast on my iMac, did not time it but it’s a far cry from the previous crawl.

I’m interested in doing the preview if it works with TV Shows. Those are where I get the most problems with Metadata. Of course I still don’t understand why we can’t edit the data like we used to be able to like 5 years ago, but having better matching services would be great… For TV Shows

Any chance they are going to add some of the core features for movies that have been asked for for years, like multiple versions of a movie… metadata storage with the movies.

What I would really, really like to see is an option to periodically, but automatically, refresh metadata, especially ratings. That, together with having all ratings show up simultaneously, would be fantastic. Part of why I asked for more detail on the “cloud-based metadata service that does all the…

The problem I see with ratings is that they are dynamic. Always changing… Would rather have the client just pull the current ratings rather then store something that could be out of date in an hour…

an option to periodically, but automatically , refresh metadata, especially ratings This will be possible with this new scanner/agent and i’m confident is something we want to support before this moves to beta. There will be new builds over the coming weeks that improve this new Movies metadata …

New Plex Media Server movie scanner and agent preview

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

chrisallen May 27, 2020, 2:08am 29

Support for TV Shows will come in the future.

Feature Request: TV Shows 2.0

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