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…

[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…

[image] beckfield: How’s that? That is rather a rather broad thing to agree to, but I think I generally do :wink:

But it covers what isn’t currently happening.

I await a day where the Plex Dance won’t be necessary with baited breath.

I just came back from the future (year 2088) and the feature was still not there. Sorry people.

[image] elan: We’re in the (long) progress of working on some awesome general scanning and metadata upgrades I know I won’t get an answer to this, but now that the Roku debacle is nearly over, I would love to know how soon we can expect these scanning and metadata upgrades. I hope they entai…

Origin of the "Plex Dance"

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NewPlaza April 3, 2019, 12:06am 149

Hey… We need a Plex Dance emoji icon. Calling all artists/animators !!

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