I have an update on this issue (which is still happening even with server version 1.18.6.2348 …
My TV Agent is setup as follows …
which has local and TVDB in that order. Local is used for subtiles and some artwork but all files have metadata scrubbed from the mkv/mk4 files.
Using this configuration the directors metadata is NEVER downloaded for any TV show, it just never works. So I change the configuration to add TMDB also as a third meta source (see below)
and when I do that the director metadata is then downloaded (but from TMDB and not TVDB).
This, while it does populate the fields in plex is not really a workaround as the underlining issue still remains. This specific data is NOT fetched from TVDB and I’m really just using TMDB as a fallback.
I would appreachiate if someone from the plex team would at least raise an internal bug on their side and fix it when it makes sense within their schedules.
