# Skip Intro Status & Stats? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Tags:** plex-web\ **Created:** [May 23, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386 "2020-05-23T12:05:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![anon5074910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/1 "2020-05-23T12:05:53Z")
Looked to see if this has been discussed already but could not find a topic on it. So we all know Skip Intro has been added and nightly the Scheduled Tasks kicks in to do the work to analysis and find the Intro – for example on my server looking in the alerts I can see `The butler generated 393 season intro markers` reported from last nights run. **However, is there a way to understand overall what has been completed and what is left to do ?** I could not find any setting or summary anywhere to give me this information. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/2 "2020-05-23T13:00:11Z")
Latest version of [ExportTools](https://forums.plex.tv/t/rel-exporttools/175915/1 "ExportToolsPlex2CSV") can show you which episodes already have the skip markers. ---
**Author:** ![anon5074910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/4 "2020-05-23T13:07:29Z")
Okay but why ExportTools – why is this just not built into the main UI. Seems like a really basic requirement ? ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/5 "2020-05-23T13:32:57Z")
It may be only of interest to a few users after having added a lot of media or creating the server/library afresh. For the rest, it doesn’t really matter as long as it works. If you are wondering why it doesn’t work on a particular episode, you can check if it already has those markers, by looking at the [Plex XML info](https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201998867-Investigate-Media-Information-and-Formats "Plex XML info") of that episode. There should be a line similar to this: `` If it is missing, there are several possible causes: - the season hasn’t been analysed yet - the season has only one episode (e.g. it is a new season or it is the Specials season) - there are no similar parts of audio which also occur in at least 20% of the other episodes in that season, within the first 10 minutes A statistic would only cover the first case. ---
**Author:** ![anon5074910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/6 "2020-05-23T13:43:19Z")
Understood but I’m more interested in working out an estimated timeline on when the vast majority of the backend work will complete as a scheduled task. For example, my library consists of almost 300 shows with god knows how many seasons, probably 1000s. I have my server doing scheduled tasks between midnight and 7am each day and this skip intro analysis is an intensive operation even for my powerful server, can’t imagine doing this on a NAS and how long it would take 🙂 Anyhow, would like to figure out if this will take days, weeks or months to complete. Will take a look at ExportTools but IMO this should have been exposed in the UI on day 1 of this feature release. BTW… fully understand new content added is different, just quering the first complete pass of content in the TV libaries. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/7 "2020-05-23T13:54:53Z")
It took my server 3 nights to crunch through my close-to-300 shows. (admittedly, there are a lot of anime shows among them with rarely more than 1 season). And I have only a 3 hours maintenance window per night. My server is a 7 year old i7 CPU. All media drives are attached locally. Which is beneficial to speed, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![anon5074910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/9 "2020-05-23T15:54:13Z")
I also wondered about disabling it – I’ll be honest its not really a feature I looked for or felt I needed but I can see in this impatient world folks wanting an easy way to skip forward. I’d guess setting **Generate intro video markers** to **never** might disable it but the more I think about it probably not for markers already generated. Sigh … Really should be a big red button to completely disable if the feature is undesired. ---
**Author:** ![anon5074910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@anon5074910](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon5074910)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2020, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/10 "2020-05-26T06:30:44Z")
Noticed in my status / alert page this morning `The butler generated 0 season intro markers.` which I guess means its finished. Took 3-4 days to complete on my system with scheduled tasks set between midnight and 7am. ---
**Author:** ![WallyOPD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/59ef9b/32.png) [@WallyOPD](https://forums.plex.tv/u/WallyOPD)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 2:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/11 "2020-05-27T02:15:41Z")
I would also love an answer to the question of how to get rid of this. I’ve disabled the generation of intro video markers but the button keeps showing up since the markers were already generated. I think this was a great feature to add because I know a large number of people wanted it, but it doesn’t interest me at all and I wish it hadn’t been turned on by default (at least without an obvious way to undo it). I’m looking for a clean watching experience and the button is frustratingly distracting. ---
**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/12 "2020-05-27T05:16:04Z")
> [@WallyOPD](#): > > I would also love an answer to the question of how to get rid of this. I have a feeling if we don’t want that button - we’ll be…: > [@The Plex Dance ™](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064): > > The purpose of this is to remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item that Plex usually keeps. This helps when you want to “start from scratch” for particular item move all files for the media item out of the directory your Library is looking at, so Plex will not “see” it anymore scan the library library (to detect changes) empty trash clean bundles (in menu next to server name, when accessed under ‘More’) double check naming schema and move files back scan the library Support articl… Dancing the night/day/weekends/holidays away… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skip-intro-status-stats/594386/13 "2020-08-25T05:16:05Z")
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