Plex Fireside in the Forum 2024

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@McWanke

Thanks for answering my previous questions to the best of your abilities. Can I have some more?

  1. Is it still on the table to be able to choose/prioritize some of the metadata sources of the new Agents? This has come up from time to time and some devs has said that it is something they are looking into. I understand that some of the magic can not be tweaked but for example the “Genres” is currently pulled from multiple sources, creating a mess of duplicate and messy genres. Discussion here Source of Genre Metadata - #2 by dokuro. Being able to choose the sources here would be beneficial. The same with “Year” which is currently pulling wrong metadata from IMDB sometimes. See this post for more info Cabin Fever 2 gets the wrong release year. Follow the link there and you will also see from @OttoKerner that this is even known. Being able to instead chose TMDB (for example) would be beneficial.

  2. This is about translations in general.
    First about “Genres”. They appear in both translated and not translated forms. An employee said last year that they are looking into translating it themselves but nothing came of this yet. Any news?
    Second is about album reviews. They sometimes appear in non english format. This is not a crowdsource error, they come from non-english sources. A moderator once said that they simply has no way of telling the language of those reviews. Fine but don’t fetch from there then. Any news on resolving this? Discussion here Getting lots of German album reviews?

  3. We spoke about this the last fireside, but I never got the sense that the discussion was finished. Creating a music cloud. For “listen together” or music discovery or such features. You said it was simply too much but at the same time said that the database scales well to volume. Is this idea truly impossible or no? Any other social music features coming that doesn’t require cloud support otherwise?

Thanks for taking the time!