I’ve been trying to find the earliest reports of problems in Plex that led to the ‘ Plex Dance ’ workaround. There seem to be literally dozens of reports, and a wide variety of symptoms that are described. It’s difficult to sift through them all. I think Plex should be highly embarrassed by a probl…

I just repeated the test using a file from a different album. I removed some information from the TIT2 tag, allowing the timestamp to be changed, and verifying that it was changed. Plex’s Scan Library Files and Refresh Metadata both failed to recognize the change. I’m going to be off line for the…

[image] Mark_Otway: If there was an option to manually tell Plex to disregard everything it knows, and completely rescan the metadata for a selected subset of media (a file, series or whatever) then users could use this function instead of having to manually dance the files out and back in again…

[image] elan: We have to be careful with terminology here, in terms of “rescan the metadata” :sweat_smile: Scanning and metadata are handled by two different parts of the system. No doubt about that! The wording will need to be specific and almost self explanatory. [image] elan: I once w…

+1. This could always be an advanced feature, and with an appropriate “Are you sure” dialog box it would be fine. You wouldn’t run it on the entire collection, just a season or series, perhaps. But I think it would massively help. Breaking the links isn’t ideal, but currently the only option is to d…

Also the way I see it is if you are doing(about to do) a plex dance then something is wrong and you are trying to fix it. Why would one want to keep the “messed up” content in their play list, other areas of the database, etc. if it’s messed up to a point that we need to do the most extreme measure,…

[image] elan: However, in your case I would have expected changing a track title to be handled by the local media agent (if it’s the highest priority agent). Upon looking at that code, it looks like we’re only grabbing sort titles, genres, and embedded artwork. It looks like we’re getting to …

[image] NewPlaza: I don’t think anyone here who has dealt with the Plex Dance would mind at all if a command (aka PlexDanceMe) could do exactly what the PlexDance does now… To delete all references to said file in a simple quick command without the need to move media around. Cause as it stands n…

[image] beckfield: when we’re (finally) identifying the root cause of the problem. Good luck!

[image] beckfield: It looks like we’re getting to the source of the problem. It shouldn’t be ignoring any field that Plex uses . I agree it shouldn’t ignore title! But as stated before, there is the split between agent and scanner which is still important, the agent has to be careful/avoid set…

[image] elan: I agree it shouldn’t ignore title! But as stated before, there is the split between agent and scanner which is still important, the agent has to be careful/avoid setting critical fields which the scanner looks at, otherwise they can get into a disagreement. For title and many othe…

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beckfield July 9, 2018, 3:52pm 136

It looks like we’re getting to the source of the problem. It shouldn’t be ignoring any field that Plex uses.

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