No, just kidding. I would be really ashamed if my product had this kind of flaw. I mean come on Plex!? It’s 2022. Do I really still need to move files around to be able to have Plex forget them and start from scratch?
Look, I’ve spent hours and hours doing the Plex Dance ™ in my life. Globally thousand and thousands of hours are wasted. Also, for a new user it is a nightmare before they understand that the need to do “the dance”
Is this feature really so hard to implement or what is the reason for not having it?
In my experience an artist level plex dance is needed for popular tracks if you add an new album for an existing artist. The popular tracks can get messed up and not list correct tracks without it…
Yep, the ol’ dance should basically never be required for movies or TV. For music it is still sometimes required however, depending on what you’re changing.
When the online source was changed plex did pickup the episode order change, it only changed the played status. Force metadata refresh made no difference at the time.
I periodically build a test plex server (side by side to my main server) so I can defect changes to the cloud metadata providers, that was how I finally figured out why the played status change. Until I plex danced the show, plex did not detect the episode order change correctly.
I don’t get it. If you’ve watched ep 6 and TheTVDB changes ep 6->8, 7->6, 8->7, your PMS should still have ep 6 as ep 6 and the watched status shouldn’t change.
Are you saying PMS will update as well so your files now point to the wrong episode? Because it shouldn’t. Or are you saying you want it to, but can’t. And yes, a Dance would be needed for this.
Plex does still have the episodes but for whatever reason the episode guid changed due to the reorder at the online site (tmdb in my example) which sends the played status to an unplayed state which is what I reported on the previous post. Really this should most likely be discussed on that thread Plex Episodes changing from played to unplayed due to online metadata source change but was auto closed
No, I’m asking for development to look into a way to preserve the watched status when episode reordering it done via the cloud providers (tmdb or tvdb), like was done in the detailed example I gave in the other thread.
This btw… does not happen very often, but when it does its a pain.
I was about to start a new thread when I saw this one. I’m not sure if I’m reading some of the above posts right, but it sounds like some people think the Plex Dance has been made unnecessary somehow (at least for movies and TV), but that does not seem to be the case for me at least. I’ve been trying to add a single new extra/featurette file for 10-15 movies, but Plex keeps refusing to recognize/add the extras unless I do the Plex Dance (after which it does work). I have several hundreds of these extras piled up waiting to be done, but it’s extremely unworkable to do this if I have to dance with every one - especially since after the dance Plex has forgotten all of the genres and collections I had assigned to the movies when I initially added them into Plex.
Is there really no way to make Plex recognize and add these extra files without having to dance every time?
You shouldn’t need the Plex Dance for extras. Just refresh the metadata. If it’s not recognizing the files, that’s usually a filename issue. Please provide the exact filename you are using.
OK - thanks - I’ll run some more tests that way and see what happens.
{edit} Cool - that seems to work great, and saves several steps. I was just telling it to rescan the files rather than refresh the metadata - the latter works just fine - thanks so much!
Sorry, but I did not have the time to find out an example of when and where Plex Dance is still needed but today I discovered one such occasion, again.
Last night the new scanner incorrectly matched a series.
Real name of the series: “Rikospaikka”
Incorrectly matched as: “Chicago Story”
When I press “Unmatch” the series name is still incorrectly “Chicago Story”. No matter what I do the series name stays incorrect. It should revert back to folder/file name, right?
How about just add “Completely remove from database” button to the menu and be done with all of these problems that have plagued Plex for god knows how long?
Before anyone asks. Yes, I’m on the latest version.
Yes. It does. File (or folder) name is what is shown before a show is matched. And in this case the file/folder name is more correct than the incorrect match so it should be possible to revert back to it.
“Unmatch” should be the opposite of “Match” but it isn’t, right?
I believe that once Plex matches a show, it pre-fills the show name / episode name / description / etc fields with metadata. Unmatching just deletes the reference (an invisible ID number) that refers to the show, but the “damage” I think has been done.
