when i choose French Canadian for the language… if the traduction doesn’t exist in this language it will take English… it’s possible to check an alternative language like french?
If you choose French Canadian for the language we should already be using French if it exists, we only fallback to English as a last resort. Could you give me an example of a show that has French translations and we return English instead?
Yes, here’s a few example :
La Tour : https://thetvdb.com/series/la-tour will be replace by
The Tower : https://thetvdb.com/movies/62543-the-tower-2012
“C’est comme ça que je t’aime” will use french language for the description of the show but will use the english language for the description of the episode…
So far we have only integrated TMDB translations. TVDB translations are still being worked on, they’re going to be included in the agent.
Will this give any benefit for anime, I have a sperate library for anime, which uses TVDB sometimes information on certain anime can be low and season numbers can be odd
When you implement support for localized metadata, please make sure to have proper fallback to English if no metadata in the configured language is available!
I wanted to explicitly mention this because the current TheTVDB agent is bugged and doesn’t do this any more for nearly a year now. See No fallback to English?
Will this give any benefit for anime, I have a sperate library for anime, which uses TVDB sometimes information on certain anime can be low and season numbers can be odd
What sort of improvements are you hoping for? When it comes to season/episode numbers it really depends on what information TVDB has available.
When you implement support for localized metadata, please make sure to have proper fallback to English if no metadata in the configured language is available!
We will, the English fallback will work in the new agent for sure.
First off, new agent is working quite well for me. Definitely an improvement for most of my shows. However, a specific shows metadata is a bit off. RuPaul’s Drag Race Untucked (Formerly know as Under the Hood on Season 1) has its metadata off for each season, Season 1 has Season 2 episode titles, Season 2 has Season 3 titles, and so on until the latest season. This is likely do to the show being renamed/rebranded after the first season.
Will the new scanner be able to incorporate and consolidate information from other sources like anidb and MAL for anime releases to give better info and season numbering I can give a few examples were TVDB info is wired like Hunter X Hunter has 3 season but could have 6 going off other info etc
The new scanner is no longer restricted to a single source of data but adding new sources is not a trivial task. We don’t have plans of adding additional sources in the immediate future, we might consider it later on. My suggestion for anime right now would be to use absolute ordering for those shows where the season numbering doesn’t make sense, it’s not yet supported in the new agent but it will be before it goes out of beta.
Having native support for anidb as the metadata source would be very nice. Until then HAMA it is. 
Dear Adriana,
thank you for the insights. As a non-english user with good and/or exclusive alternative sources at hand, I really hope that you reconsider this.
I am well aware that coding such thing would be a complex task. Why not giving your code the option to read full XML or JSON files for each movie / tv show (plus perhaps allowing the triggering of 3rd-party tools to create those XML or JSON files?
That way, you can easily define an interface that can add everything (if wanted). I’d be willing to code such tools.
Use cases for need of “more sources”: TV movie footage not covered by Plex IMDB license, special interest like anime, short movies, documentaries, youtube content or adult entertainment, non-english content from foreign-language sources with rating from foreign-countries. But you can add plenty of other use cases. If you look at any of these use cases seperately, you will only find “a number of users”. But if you look at the sum of all special interest, it gets more and more clear, that some kind of interface should be provided to serve these needs.
Again, I really would be glad to see it happen and to help with doing it.
@rossinior Right now our focus is on launching an improved TV agent that has feature parity to the old one and uses our current data sources but of course we’ll be thinking about additional ways to improve it and we’ll take these suggestions into account.
This has been asked for years now. I still don’t understand their reluctance to read from nfo files.
Appreciated.
I can understand it being “hard” to scan NFO files for “some info”.
But having coded a complex database interface by using XML “events”, I really can see the huge advances - you can design your own XML or JSON tags for just anything you would like to import, from numbers to strings to binary data - for any kind of library item/attribute you have.
And since XML or JSON is just “plain text”, it is easy to code 3rd party tools to create these - in python or any other UI language you can think of.
I really hope to see it becoming reality. And of course, good luck with you native data set and the agents. First things first… 
Can anyone from Plex confirm if the new scanner will support TVDB’s new alternative ordering? I know we currently have DVD and Absolute Episode number etc, but there are other options announced in there Flexible Seasons with the new API?
@jonathan.gorbutt No, they’re not planned to be included in the release.
are imdb ratings for individual episodes supported yet ?
Could you please consolidate this with the team responsible for TV interface? because this way could results in a season with hundreds of episodes, and horizontal scrolling that many thumbnails just doesn’t make sense.
It’s a shame Plex won’t support episode groups from TMDB. This along with episode matching using a imdb/tvdb ID in episode filenames would really make the management of TV shows a lot easier.
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