New Plex Media Server movie scanner and agent preview

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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follow-up to my 1st observations with the new version…

Collections

  • :white_check_mark: collection metadata now includes posters and backdrops :partying_face:
  • :red_circle: summaries / descriptions are not downloaded
  • :red_circle: collection names are not localized
    • it’s mostly English language titles and posters – both for Hollywood stuff but also some German franchises
    • I also got a Japanese titled version of a Studio Ghibli collection

Movie Localization

  • :white_check_mark: very few mismatches, still great speed – loving it :smiley:
  • :white_check_mark: it appears, the agent has some issues where the local title is the same as the original title (or at least also something in English) – I noticed a number of movies with names starting with “The” to be mismatched (The Big Short, The Circle…)
  • :yellow_circle: I’ve run in 1 German comedy where Plex gets the German poster and description but sticks to an English translation of the title (plex://movie/5d9f34f668e4c8001fb5db2b)
    That particular one is now matching correctly; now I’m getting the English title for another German comedy (in a German language library) → “Fack Ju Göhte” vs. “Suck Me Shakespeer” (GUID: plex://movie/5d776a6c594b2b001e6bc875)
  • :red_circle: field Original Title is not populated (also not available in View XML)

Other Observations

  • :yellow_circle: After the library has been created, I can no longer access the Advanced tab for that library turns out this is related to an ongoing scan/update; still feels inconsistent :confused:
  • In my “productive setup” I have a separate library for “alternative versions” of movies (alternate cuts or movies where visual texts are displayed in different languages – like the Star Wars intro or many Pixar movies); for my Test I’ve linked both folders to the same test library – after subsequently deleting the 2nd folder, Plex sticks to the local posters of those movies (even if the underlying poster is no longer in the scope of the library)
  • I don’t think it’s related to the agent… but I observed the extras are no longer alphabetically sorted… I’ve e.g. got a movie with a bunch of deleted scenes which are displayed as Scene 3, Scene 1, Scene 6, Scene 4, Scene 5, Scene 7 and Scene 2
  • HTML encoded special characters are displayed as that code (instead the character); e.g. & instead of & – other special characters like Umlaute etc. are displayed ok (ä=ä, '='…)
  • Some of the XML detail pages (View XML) appear to be broken; specific example has a <Extras><Video> tag with a duplicate subtype attribute (subtype="deletedScene")
  • :red_circle: I need to test the new version with a different browser… after approx. 1h the bundled version of Plex Web got super slow (page takes up almost 1.2 GB of memory in Safari; reloading the page in a new tab fixed this for now)

Reminder to self… next time, configure the agent to ignore local artwork. That should make it easier to recognize the bad matches :wink: