This has been an annoying bug for sooo long, having this feature finally work would be AMAZING! Quite often series files get renamed or moved or reordered and their metadata gets dragged along with them without updating correctly and the only actual fix is to do “The Plex Dance”. However I’m sure …

Here’s an example: 4 episodes of the show Bluey were incorrectly numbered. The 4 episodes had the correct metadata in Plex but they were around the wrong way so I renamed the files with the correct numbers to reorder them. 2 of the episodes kept their metadata and the other 2 lost their metadata: …

The new TV series agent is just about to release to everyone. It’s in Beta now. When you click “Refresh Metadata”, it does EXACTLY as you would expect. There is no more Dancing. It does require naming be per plex spec.

Oh nice! Can people get access to the beta release for testing?

[image] New Plex Media Server TV show/series scanner and agent preview Metadata & Adding Files What is it and what’s new? A few months ago we upgraded our movie scanning and matching inside PMS leveraging our own cloud metadata provider. Since then we’ve been w…

Any idea on when this is expected to become general release?

I’m using it now in several PMS beta releases. Does that give you an idea how close? :slight_smile: (they don’t permit me to give out any specifics. i think they want to resolve a few final problems first)

When will "Refresh Metadata" actually work?

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shark2k February 23, 2021, 12:38am 5

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When will "Refresh Metadata" actually work?

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