I've searched the forums and don't see an answer to this . . . .
Is there a way add custom metadata fields (without being a developer)? For home movies, Director, Writer etc. is not very useful. . . I realize Plex was not designed to be a MAM / DAM but metadata tagging is crucial when your library gets large in size. When I mouse over a video in my library, the overlay pops up and I click the pencil to edit. The next screen that comes up has a menu on the left containing General, Tags, Poster, Background. Is there a way to add additional, custom entry fields in the Genreral or Tags section?
And awesome job on this by the way - Plex is extremely useful and well done.
@tyler4550 said:
Am I really the only one that wants this?
You’re not the only one - I’m creating a Rifftrax library that I’m pretty happy with, but I wish I could have a field for who the riffers were for a given video. There are all kinds of other reasons to want custom tags:
Date released in [my country] as well as date released in the US
IMDB Rating, Rotten Tomatoes rating, my rating
Notes (Actor’s first film, Director’s first film, Harrison Ford had dysentery while filming)
Budget
Awards
Filming Locations
Color / BW
and so on…
I don’t understand how someone creates a metadata schema for a general consumer software and doesn’t consider making it extensible.
I would love to have a custom tag field available. I have a movie collection of almost 2000 DVD’s. I have been ripping them and putting them onto a qnap server with Plex and am loving the results. But I have the original DVD’s numbered and am storing them in folders. I would like to have a field for the number displayed in plex. So if someone wants to get the original disk out or check get the blueray they can easily tell which folder. Right now I have the tag on the files and it is able to be see using media monkey or other advanced media browsers but it would be really handy to have this as an option in PLEX. my whole family knows plex and loves it so having custom fields that I can put information in would really be helpful.
+1 or +5 if you could my whole family
Yeah I needed it too, for alternative titles.
A good example is the movie Moana, that is called Vaiana in other countries.
My friends searched for Vaiana and no result.
Just adding my two cents worth, too, for a custom tag field function. I just uploaded all my home videos to my new Plex server. I’d love to have the ability to tag them such as ‘vacation’ and ‘Hawaii’. But, sadly, I see no where for such tags in the meta data scheme. Please add this ability! Thanks…and, btw, as a first-time Plex user…just WOW…great server app…great client app. Can’t wait to get our Nvidia Shield and connect my Haupage TV tuner. this will really kick butt!
I’d also like to see this. When I add home video’s I have to tag them all by hand, one by one, on the PLEX server. Every time there is a change in structure or something gets added, all the tags are gone and need to be redone. I would like PLEX to take the info from the tags that are on the video files instead.
Beside using the built in feature under movie --> edit --> Tags, I use the free program Mp3tag. Yes it is built for music but it still works for the Title, Year, Genre and a few other things. You can also batch edit/save. The very first time you save any metadata, it can take 15-20 seconds for each file but every time after that it only takes 1-2 seconds. MKV extension saves immediately with no wait.
Been using the program for almost 2 years and this is what I use to manually edit info before adding to my movie plex directory.
