Refresh metadata periodically, how often ?

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Hello

I’d like to know how often is the “Refresh metadata periodically” works because it doesn’t seem to be working.
I have to manually refresh the metada specially with subtitles.

I’m using sub-zero channel for subtitles

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I think subtitles aren’t actually metadata and won’t be refreshed when you refresh your metadata (names, descriptions, air-dates…).

this might be a silly question… what’s wrong with your metadata so it requires to be refreshed? it’s not that the content of your movies have changed resulting in new descriptions?! – but that could also be just me not getting the point of it :wink:

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Ok if subtitles are not considered as metadata it make sense. I just needed that periodically search for new subtitles without intervention from the user.

I’m not interested in refreshing descriptions or art, just subtitles.

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same question… do you expect regular updates / improved subtitles?
why update them if they’re working and taking the risk of getting subtitles for a different cut which won’t fit to your content?
apologies if I’m a little thick…

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I’m not explainig correctly maybe because of my english :confused:

What I really need is to periodically find missing subtitles, that is, episodes without subtitles at all or to find spanish subtitles if their are missing, sometimes I have the english subtitle but the spanish one is missing.

If I manually refresh metadata I can get the missing subtitles but I want it to be automatically.

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ok… I believe in this case you’re looking at the entirely wrong place :wink:

here’s a description how to deal w/ subtitles and options if opensubtitles.org cannot find any.
Fetching Internet Sourced & Using Your Own Subtitle Files | Plex Support

to identify which movies don’t have subtitles you can use a custom filter:

  1. filter your movies with a custom filter, e.g. <subtitles language> IS NOT <spanish> – only movies without Spanish subtitles should now be visible
  2. from this view create a playlist – this will create a “smart playlist” which remembers the search criteria and will always show the movies matching the criteria (important if you e.g. get some missing subtitles or add new movies)

personally I prefer using the subtitles included with my blu-rays / dvds.
When you use MKV for your files you can keep those subtitles included and Plex will automatically detect them. Makes you less depending on finding the exact right subtitle for the version of your movie you got (I ran into too much trouble w/ DVD/Blu-Ray other videos having different lengths and subtitles therefore being out-of-sync)

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If you are referring to the “Refresh metadata periodically” under “Scheduled Tasks” then that setting is only for Music libraries.
Text below taken from https://support.plex.tv/articles/201553286-scheduled-tasks/

Over the course of the month, the server will refresh the metadata for musical artists in your library. This will help ensure that your artists have good tour date information (if you’ve enabled that feature) and that Plex Pass users of Premium music libraries will automatically get new lyrics from LyricFind.

Note: This metadata refreshing currently only occurs for music libraries.

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