Description of the recorded TV program is missing on almost all recorded shows, while the description is perfectly visible in the guide when bringing up a show. Makes it kind of a pain, for example, when bringing up a Nova episode from PBS, and you have no idea what it is about. Occurs at least on…

To follow up, here is a screenshot of the Rick Steve’s recorded show. No description, while there was one in the guide. I cannot find if there’s any facility in Plex support to actually log a bug? It seems like all we are able to do is post here and hope someone at Plex determines it is worthy of…

Same thing happening here, for several weeks.

See How can I keep program info from EPG for show saved in library? - #2 by OttoKerner

I’m having this same problem, any fixes yet? It seems like some of my shows will display the description/thumbnail on the day they’re recorded, but then a small subset of those will lose those and go “generic” the next day.

I believe the issue is the guide EPG description isn’t carrying over once it’s recorded or is lost upon a library scan. I wouldn’t call it a bug, but a technical limitation based upon the data isn’t available. A few things to keep in mind, once a show is recorded, the recording file is created in t…

If this is the case I would still call it a bug because my scanning parameters and locations have not changed for years, and the lack of description is only a recent event.

The show description is in the guide data. Not sure why Plex can’t transfer the show description from the guide to the show metadata after the recordings finishes. This wasn’t an issue previously on recorded shows. It stopped adding the description a few releases ago. The description that does get…

FYI, by following another thread, I made the change to my Recorded TV library I have and recorded some shows and they have descriptions now. I changed the scanner to Plex Series and TVDB from the Plex TV Series entry for both Scanner and Agent However Plex now always shows an “Upgrade Libraries” n…

Recorded TV Shows Lacking Description Field

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pbenzschawel May 20, 2022, 2:00am 2

I posted the exact same problem a few weeks ago after upgrading to 1.26 and haven’t heard anything. Did a follow up post last night and still nothing… I downgraded to 1.25 and it’s working again.

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Recorded TV Shows Lacking Description Field

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