Plex no longer matching using new Plex Agents

Server Version#: 1.41.6.9685
Player Version#: Web 4.145.1

Plex no longer even attempts to match Movies or TV Shows using the new Plex Scanners and Plex Agents. It used to, but has stopped doing so.

Modifying Manage → Libraries → Advanced → Agent to specify Legacy Agents (TheMVDB, TheTVDB) solves the issue, IMMEDIATELY matching the content and populating the Metadata, but also showing the Red Circle Exclamation Point warning “Library Update Required”. Switching it back to Agent = Plex, and adding new content, goes back to no longer even attempting to find a match.

I’ve tried both the Plex Dance and the Short Plex Dance solutions outlined in this thread, neither solved the problem:

I’ve attached my server logs as of this morning, after 1) adding a new movie, 2) having Plex Agent find nothing, 3) change Agent to The Movie Database, 4) having TheMVDB find a match immediately. Help!

Plex Media Server Logs_2025-05-09_11-59-21.zip (3.2 MB)

Do NOT enable “verbose” logging.

This has been an issue plaguing tons of us. Multiple threads about it, but this one is the main one I’ve been tracking.

@OttoKerner, thanks for the reply. Apologies if the log file is wrong, but as far as I can tell, I do not have logging set to verbose (see screenshot). Is there somewhere else I need to set this other than Settings → General? See attached screenshot.

You need to stop and restart the server after making changes to the logging settings, or they won’t get observed.

@OttoKerner Thanks for the clarification. I stopped, then restarted the Plex Server on my Synology NAS, then downloaded the Logs again (see attached).
I hope these logs are not Verbose, because if they are, I just don’t know why.

Plex Media Server Logs_2025-05-09_17-01-58.zip (3.0 MB)

I have been experiencing this on my unRaid docker since 1.41.6.x as well. As soon as i revert back to 1.41.5.9522 everything works again. Not sure what changed with those two versions. I tried using Google’s DNS, same issue on 1.41.6.x and above.

See if Plex Media Server - #673 by chris_decker08 brings any change for you.

This update has zero effect on my issue. Still unable to search or find a match for my files in multiple different libraries.

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.