Plex insists on using the value from the “Title” property of the actual file that I can view in windows when viewing the file properties rather than the name of the file which is in the format “The Move (Year).ext”. I’m seeing many titles look something like “Burnt.2015.720p.BluRay.H264.AAC” as it appears in the title field. Is there a way to ignore this information?
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change the order of your agents.
drag ‘Local Media Assets’ to sit below ‘Plex Movie’
This change will be applied after a ‘Refresh Metadata’ of the library or the affected movies.
If you want this to be effective in every video-type library, change it in all these places:
- Settings - Server - Agents - Shows - TheTVDB
- Settings - Server - Agents - Shows - TheMovieDatabase
- Settings - Server - Agents - Movies - Plex Movie
- Settings - Server - Agents - Movies - TheMovieDatabase
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@OttoKerner said:
change the order of your agents.
drag ‘Local Media Assets’ to sit below ‘Freebase’This change will be applied after a ‘refresh’ of the library or the affected movies.
This worked great - thank you so much! 
So glad I found this thread, thanks for the tip!
It’s 2018 now, and this advice just saved me tons of time. Thanks for this jewel.
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I have followed the steps in this thread and I am still having naming issues where Plex is taking the file title from the file properties and not from the file name. My library type is setup as Movie, with The Movie Database as the agent. I have move the moved the “Local Media Assets (Movies)” to the bottom of the list in Settings> Agents > Movies > Personal Media | Plex Movie | The Movie Database. I have refreshed my library, and have even gone so far as to delete the Library and recreate it. Still Plex reads some of the movie titles with periods as spaces. Am I doing something wrong?
No, you are not doing something wrong.
The issue is the persistence of some users to replace all space characters in media titles with periods. Plex is forced to reverse this process, or the matching would be far worse.
That shouldn’t be an issue, however. As far as the media item in question can be ‘matched’ to one of the online metadata agents, its filename should get overridden with metadata from these online metadata sources.
If you really have sorted the LMA agent to the bottom under all three of the Agent-Movie preferences.
If you still have an issue with your files, please post the Plex XML info of one such affected item.
Thanks for the info. I found that to be anoying. Now the problem is gone!
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Hi All
Is there any disadvantage to doing this?
Doing what exactly?
Hi, to dropping local Media Assets beneath Plex Movie?
Does that mean it will ignore local posters etc. or not?
Thanks
It will not ignore them as such. This is merely a shifting of priorities.
Whichever agent is sorted to the top, has the first chance to supply metadata.
If the first agent fails to deliver, the second agent will be used and so on.
In the case of posters, all posters will get downloaded, but the poster of the first agent will be pre-selected.
But you can still manually pick a different poster by editing the item.
