Plex Issue With Years Using The Movie Database Agent

[OttoKerner]

There is a new scanner/agent in development, of which a public preview is also already available.

New Plex Media Server movie scanner and agent preview

What is it and what’s new? We’re working on some upgrades to our movie metadata infrastructure, and we’d like to give you a peek at what’s in store. The major changes are a brand new scanner and agent, rebuilt from the ground up to be lean and super speedy, and a cloud-based metadata service that does all the heavy lifting to bring together multiple metadata sources such as IMDb, TheMovieDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and more to provide you with the best metadata in one place. We’d like to invite you to…

Chances are higher that this issue is tackled with this new development, rather than in the old Python code.