That seems incredibly shortsighted if it is true. For example, upgrading to the new agent deleted all my existing collection summaries. I don’t want to let the agent create new collections even though it would pull summaries from TMDb because I have custom artwork that was thankfully not deleted.
I had a simple script that could pull the summaries and upload those, but I can’t use that anymore because I have no way of properly identifying the movies within the collection. I am hoping this is only temporary and not by design.
I just tried adding a copy of The Avengers to my library. The Plex Movie Legacy scanner finds no results at all, the new Plex Scanner seems to find something but doesn’t download any information or assets.
Edit: Restarting the server twice has brought the “legacy” scanner back to life.
Overall it does look quite good, although there are a few issues I’m having with the new agent:
It seems that we can no longer set specific movies to use a different metadata language than what is configured for the library. In the legacy agent I could simply choose “Fix Match” and search for the item with a different language selected and then this item would use the metadata of the chosen language. Maybe there is a fix for this to get the old behaviour back?
The ratings seem to have lost their country specification, e.g. all German “de/12” rating now only read “12”, which makes them inconsistent with the other metadata agents (TV shows,…). Is this a wanted “feature” or a bug?
I checked the new Plex Movie Agent for settings (when accessed through the settings menu) and it shows no settings for me. Should there be settings (similar to the Plex “legacy” scanner settings) or are these settings now always on a per-library basis? If the latter is the case, might be good to introduce agent-level settings as defaults.
When I use the new Plex Agent for Matching a film manually, the language setting is set to the first language in the drop-down menu instead of the default language.
Server Version# 1.20.0.3125
I have encountered an issue with the new Plex Movie agent. The agent does not populate the rating field with the IMBD rating. You therefore cannot sort by critic ratings as Plex uses the field to sort the movies.
Strangely enough, it does show the IMBD rating when you click on the movie; but it does not use this rating to update the rating field. It works perfectly when I switch back to the legacy Plex Movie Agent.
@Jordan_I, It uses the audience rating field now, and you need to sort by audience rating. It’s because IMDb is actually made up of users instead of critics. I was incredibly confused by this change as well
We will officially recommend {imdb:tt1234567} or {imdb-tt1234567} in our support articles, but you can also use [] or () around it. (you can even use just the tt1234567 GUID in your filenames.)
I’ve realized, the reason the cast and actors photos is wrong in my previous post (13) it’s because it’s pulled from IMDB.
Is it possible to use TMDB as metadata source for cast members - as it is in the legacy agent? It looks like director(s) is pulled from TMDB. That’s why there are several directors credited in my following post with “Split” and “Glass”
There is a very common trend among those, so hopefully there is a simple fix. More concerning, it does not seem to pick IMDb ratings for new movies (probably because they were just released and have very limited votes). Similar to my unanswered question above, I would be interested to know if these movies would ever get IMDb ratings without a manual refresh? Otherwise, all new movies (that did not have theatrical releases) would suffer from this issue
I am not seeing the options (mentioned in the post linked below) for Plex Movie when selecting it in Settings->Agents->Movies->Plex Movie. It just shows a blank (see screenshot).
" The new Plex Movie agent gives you the option to use local image assets independently from any embedded metadata. Setting the Use local assets preference will pick up any local image assets and use those over the ones pulled from the cloud."
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" A new advanced setting, Minimum automatic collection size , will allow you to tweak the threshold at which we’ll automatically add a new collection to your library. You can tweak this setting between Disabled (no automatic collections) and 4 ."
When I sort my new movie library by Release Date all movies seems to be “released” on January 1st. The year is correct, but not the date.
I deleted my original Movie library and created a new one with the new Movie Agent. I also selected iMDB as critic ratings source in stead of the default.
We will be bringing this back before this goes public and also looking into adding the “metadata language” and “original title” settings to be available at a “per movie” level (a new feature in the new agent)
@chrisallen while the metadata language per movie is being added back, the feature to pull identifiers (IMDb ID/TMDB ID) from the guid does seem removed as well and has not been touched upon by the dev team. Is this also just a factor of the agent being in beta and will it be readded in the future?
This removal has broken many tools that people use alongside Plex, so it would really be helpful for us to know what the plan is here. A lot of devs are anxious that those tools will just become defunct without being able to pull identifiers.
