# Add METADATA EDITOR like Emby **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [August 26, 2019, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-metadata-editor-like-emby/452389 "2019-08-26T07:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![\_ntoine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/eb9ed0/32.png) [@\_ntoine](https://forums.plex.tv/u/_ntoine)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 7:32am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-metadata-editor-like-emby/452389/1 "2019-08-26T07:32:01Z")
PLEX needs a better means for users to enter/modify METADATA faster. The MATCH utility is nice however when there’s a lot of work to be done MATCH takes forever. Emby offers a means to edit the METADATA faster, most of the time all that one needs to correct using their editor is the title, date and add the IMDB and THEMOVIEDB ID’s and Emby will look up the rest. Please allow us to get the task of adding or editing METADATA faster so one doesn’t spend their time trying to match one movie/show/etc. at a time. I have processed the same library using Emby in 3 days, so far I’ve only been able to MATCH 400 movies/shows in the same time frame. I estimate MATCH to take me about 3 months to complete the same task. ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2019, 8:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-metadata-editor-like-emby/452389/2 "2019-08-26T08:31:51Z")
Plex will not touch your media files. That’s been the policy since the beginning. (except totally deleting them, but this feature can be disabled) ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-metadata-editor-like-emby/452389/3 "2021-01-17T13:55:10Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: aside of Plex’ long-standing position not to touch/change local files, this is a duplicate > [@\[Feature Request\] Metadata Write Back](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-metadata-write-back/119947): > > I would like to see an optional item in libraries to write metadata changes back to the original media files. For my use case in particular my primary interest would be in ID3 tags for MP3 files and iTunes style tags for MP4 files. I have spent quite a bit of time properly tagging my media files and those tags are what allowed Plex to quickly make sense of my collection. So it bothers me that if I make a quick edit in Plex it is permanently locked into Plex’s internal database and not written b… ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/add-metadata-editor-like-emby/452389/4 "2021-06-10T00:42:04Z")