What Agent do I use to get *ALL* actors?

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I’m hesitant to ask this because I just know that if I change something in my metadata agent setup something else will end up breaking, but…

Right now my setup is only downloading some actors, it seems to be top-billed, but is leaving off a significant amount of the cast. So what ends up happening is that good character actors often end up being ignored by Plex.

I’d like to be able to keep them in top-billed order and not loose Rotten Tomatoes ratings, is this possible? And what agents and agent order should I be using.

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TheMovieDB main agent will get all actors but as you seem to be aware of this will result in rotten tomatoes not working since you need to use Freebase for that. ( in either case the preplay screen only lists the top 5 billed returned from the agents )

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@BigWheel said:
TheMovieDB main agent will get all actors but as you seem to be aware of this will result in rotten tomatoes not working since you need to use Freebase for that. ( in either case the preplay screen only lists the top 5 billed returned from the agents )

Ok thanks. That’s sort of what I thought, but was hoping I was wrong. I think I’m just going to move TMDb up. RT ratings only seem to be working on older films, so I guess I’ll just give up on that feature until the developers wake up and fix it.

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I’ve actually found many instances where TheMovieDB has zero or just a few actors listed and Freebase has the entire cast list. Unfortunately, Freebase doesn’t always list the cast in order of billing, but sometimes order of appearance or alphabetical.