And a lesson learned before i had read up on everything…
Do NOT install the latest PMS 1.19.5.3006… it does not include the Plex Movie (Preview) agent 
I don’t see a release for 1.19.5.3006
It’s on the official beta page
https://www.plex.tv/media-server-downloads/
and i noticed since my libraries was reset to Personal Media instead… - uninstalled Plex, and reinstalled this speciel version with the preview agent (which i actually like quite a lot) - All data is back and working
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When the preview agent pulls date info, is it expected for it to use regional release dates?
If the expected behavior is to use regional data, I’d appreciate the option to still use the TMDB “primary release date”, instead of MY region.
I think of the date as a fundamental bit of movie metadata; regional release details are a secondary thing. How do folks in non-US regions feel?
Here are some examples:
| Movie | Old Plex Movie Agent | Plex Movie (Preview) | IMDb | TMDb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) | 1972 | 1977 | 1972, 1977 US | 1972, 1977 US Theatrical |
| Amélie (2001) | 2001 | 2002 | 2001, 2001 US Festival, 2001 US Limited, 2002 US Theatrical | 2001, 2001 US Premiere, 2001 US Limited, 2002 US Theatrical |
| Casablanca (1942) | 1942 | 1943 | 1942, 1942 US Premiere, 1943 US Theatrical | 1942, 1942 US Premiere (incorrect in TMDB), 1943 US Theatrical |
| Castle in the Sky (1986) | 1986 | 1986 (*) | 1986, 1987 US Festival Premiere, 1989 US Theatrical | 1986, 1989 US Theatrical |
| Darkness (2002) | 2002 | 2004 | 2002, 2004 US Premiere/Theatrical | 2002, 2004 US Theatrical |
| My Neighbor Totoro (1988) | 1988 | 1990 | 1988, 1990 US (Something? Apparently? Bad data?) | 1988, 2018 US Physical (not the first) |
| The Gods Must be Crazy (1980) | 1980 | 1984 | 1980, 1984 US Premiere/Theatrical | 1980, 1984 US Theatrical |
| The Hurt Locker (2018) | 2018 | 2019 | 2018, 2019 US | 2018, 2019 US |
| The Upside (2019) | 2019 | 2019 | 2017, 2017 US screenings, 2019 US Theatrical | 2019, 2017 US screenings, 2019 US Theatrical |
| The Wicker Man (1973) | 1973 | 1974 | 1973, 1974 US test screenings & weirdness | 1973, 1975 US Theatrical |
(*) I’m glad the Preview agent is getting 1986, but … from where?
Mod-Edit: made your list a table… makes it easier to review
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I’m in Australia, and personally I much prefer the regional dates (plus titles and ratings). But like many things, this will just come down to individual user preferences 
(This is me speaking from my own personal view, not as a representative of Plex in this case)
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(Australia jokes, always funny? I’m astonished that worked.)
I agree 100% about localized content ratings - it has to be that way, right? There’s no universal certification/rating system. (I just learned today that apparently US/MPAA ratings are assigned by a cabal of parents in LA. You shouldn’t be subjected to those ratings…)
I’ve got users in multiple countries. It seems weird to go from “movie” dates to “US” dates for them. Then again, they’re used to everything being US-centric, they probably won’t notice anyway, and they’ll live.
There’s a Use localized titles checkbox. Would Use localized titles and Release dates be feasible?
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Localized to what though, the server or the client? 
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I think most of the dates at the moment tend to be US centric anyway (but not always). As for what’s possible, I’ll leave that for @drzoidberg33 
I almost mentioned client vs. server localization in my first message, but I was going to be snarky about it so I didn’t. 
You’ll give the data architect at Plex a heart attack if you talk that way. A hairy problem for sure.
But MAYBE (?!!?!) the client already supports localization. I notice that the Plex “Movies & TV” are using US dates, at least for me, in the US. ‘Mr. Nobody’ shows 2013, but it was a 2009 movie.
Even funnier, in the announcement the screenshot for “Ghost in the Shell” shows 1995.
https://www.plex.tv/blog/boom-we-just-dinosized-your-movie-collection-for-free/
And I agree it’s a 1995 movie, and it appears that way in the old “Plex Movie” agent.
But “Ghost in the Shell” currently appears as 1996 in Plex “Movies & TV”, as well as in the Preview agent.
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I feel that the date of the first release in whatever country is the proper date to display.
Heck, personally I’d even consider the date when the last creative step was taken as the “right” date of a movie.
This’d help better to categorize a movie, than to depend on when some particular national distributor decided to release the movie in his country.
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I agree…
Doesn’t matter what country that is…
I’m in the US… most of our movies seem to be released outside the US first.
This I think is to test the waters so to speak before it’s released in the US.
I know some movies have gone back to editing before the US release.
Nowadays all major movies are released virtually on the same day worldwide to reduce the privacy risk.
This was probably different in the past, but this is how it is done for some years now.
The beta is not the same as a “preview” version. “Preview” are special versions only available through the forum. If you install a beta or public release (even if they have a newer version number than the preview), then you basically leave the “preview” so any “preview” features are gone.
We were accidentally defaulting to the US release year. We’ll update that to use the primary release year.
We will have an updated Plex Movie (Preview) PMS release soon. We are just working on some last bits we want to get added to it.
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No worries - i just saw the beta version string was so close to our little preview here, I got very eager to try a newer version. Didn’t read all through!
I’m back running on the preview version and the nice little preview agent.
You should all not be forgetting this in the first post.
If you have used the new agent on one of your real/current libraries, instead of creating a new test library, you may be creating more pain for yourself in the future.
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I realy like the new scanner. But whats about localized movie description and movie names?
I have set lanuguage and country to german, but movie names and description is always in english.
This will come in the next PMS preview release.
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What it means, is that the PREVIEW agent is not guaranteed to be migrateable (thus the TEST LIBRARIES).
When they roll it out in normal fashion, I’m sure we can expect a supported migration path, much like how the MUSIC library system was upgraded.
Meaning, you may/might have to ‘refresh metadata’ manually, or plex might do it automatically for you with the new agent, once it is ready.
