The last couple of shows I’ve added to my Plex server have grabbed completely different synopses than the ones displayed on TMDB or TheTVDB. Not sure why this is happening. When I “refresh metadata” nothing changes.
For instance: the synopsis for Gossip Girl on TMDB is “An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.”. But the one that shows up in my Plex is “Privileged teens living on the Upper East Side of New York can hide no secret from the ruthless blogger who is always watching.”. I went through the edit history on TMDB and there isn’t a single instance of that ever being the synopsis. It is however the current synopsis for the show on Plex’s own page for it. Is Plex storing its own metadata as default now?
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Plex aggregates metadata from multiple sources for their metadata repository. When the Plex TV Series agent is used for a TV library, that aggregated data is utilized.
In the example you provided for Gossip Girl, the synopsis is from IMDB.
There is no way to manually direct Plex to use specific data from a specific source in their modern agents. (Though, you can still manually input data yourself.) You can rebuild the library with the TMDB or TVDB agents, but that would be a short-term fix only as all new development is being done on the modern agents. And you can’t pick the agent on a series-by-series basis as you could with the legacy agents.
As a side note, changing the episode ordering to use a specific online database’s ordering does not change the source of the metadata used for the series, only how they’re ordered.
I believe that would make a lot of folks happy. Though I’m not sure why the feature suggestion isn’t more popular than it is. Only five-votes-per-user argument notwithstanding .
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