Why is the 'Plex Dance' even a thing?

[beckfield]

@rbeatse

A “refresh Metadata” function should/could give two options (both of which do the steps for the Plex Dance)…
Full Refresh - This does a complete refresh of all metadata, images, everything as if it was brand new
Partial Refresh - This would do a search for new metadata but only update the fields that were not “locked” already.
Ideally, to me, you could select items like you do when you merge things, and only do the refresh on those without having to do the full library.

I might accept that if it didn’t do all the steps of the Plex Dance. Remember, the Dance has destructive side effects, some of which I listed earlier. Aside from database corruption, there should never be a need to go that far.

I’ve been having a very productive discussion with @elan , one of the Plex co-founders. I think we’ve identified the primary cause for most, if not all, the issues that lead to the Dance. I’m hoping we’ll be dancing the last dance soon.