Batch import of metadata from filename

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Hello, I made a search and didn’t find this feature, hope it has not been asked before ?

In MediaMonkey program which I used to use for music
I have a feature which is Auto tag from filename
Where I can create a mapping like :

"<Track number n°> - <title> - <Artist>.mp3"

to import my metadata correctly in the proper fields.

Could we have a similar feature that would allow to import some correct data in Plex ?

Example:
I have a TV show with stand up comedy acts.
I named them Artist - s01e01 - Title 1
then Artist - s01e02 - Title 2 etc…

When I imported the files in plex it was imported with “Episode 1” in the title data instead of Title 1 that was in the actual file…

So I had to redo them manually one by one.
With this feature I could easily reimport them with correct tags.

Hope I explained it well (sorry english is not my native language)

Thanks in advance

Z.

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Not exactly sure what you’re aiming for :wink:
The big incentive of using PLEX and following their naming conventions is so that PLEX can automatically match the files and assign the correct metadata.

From what I read in your request, you’re actually looking for a workaround for libraries / content which cannot or should not be matched to use a part of the file‘s name instead. Default behavior at this moment is to list episodes with their episode number (as per your example: e.g. „Episode 1“). In your example you’d want to display the „optional info“ instead (see naming conventions).

Do I read this correct?

Tom.

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Hello Tom80 H and thanks for taking time on answering my question :slight_smile: !

I take a lot time to rename all my files correctly to what Plex recommand to find the correct info should it be a film or a tv series…

In that specific case it is not possible because no database has this episodes since it is something I have created.

I named my files as follows
Bonwoland - s01e01 - The Olive tree.mkv
Bonwoland - s01e02 - The barbecue.mkv
Bonwoland - s01e03 - Our little Dog.mkv

When I scanned it in Plex instead of having “title 1” “title 2” and “title 3” appearing I had “episode 1” “episode2” and “episode 3”

What I would like to do is try to import them from the filename itself using filters like

<Name of series> - <Title> - <Artist>.mkv"

that should import them next to the proper fields like I do with some music in Mediamonkey

Hope I explained it better this time :slight_smile:

Z.

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There is no real solution for this.
Either you are switching to mp4 files (then you can embed the episode title into the file itself and Plex will read it)

or you are adding a Kodi-compliant .nfo file with all the info. Then use the .nfo importer agents to import these into Plex.

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@OttoKerner said:
There is no real solution for this.
Either you are switching to mp4 files (then you can embed the episode title into the file itself and Plex will read it)

or you are adding a Kodi-compliant .nfo file with all the info. Then use the .nfo importer agents to import these into Plex.

Thanks Otto for the tip about .nfo, I will try it and let you know if it worked.
Just out of curiosity why does it work with mp4 and not mkv ?

One last thing this is also why I posted inside the “feature request” forum, but I don’t know if other members also have title issues when importing there data…

Thanks for answering so promptly,

Z.

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@zorglub2000 said:
Just out of curiosity why does it work with mp4 and not mkv ?

mp4 supported embedded metadata long before they came to MKV.
Open source libraries to access those meta data existed also much longer.

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I understand the OP. I have clips, movies, own video’s etc… that are not found in external databases. I do have given these files a filename that is meaningful to me. In Plex I can manually look at the information and copy that in the name field, but I have to do this for each file. In case I would lose the metadata for some reason, I need to do this all over again. Also, now for certain new files I have to copy the filename to the name field. It would be nice if there exists a feature that takes the filename in cases where no metadata is available and this for mkv files, see the link where it is stated that this is not the case yet (in blue), https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265256-naming-home-series-media/

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