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I simply want the see the titles in my library the exact way I call the .mkv files.
Said that, plex can still use the various metadata to get info about the movies.
I have my naming conventions for movies that makes sure I got the title in my language, the original, and the files are ordered when we have the 2nd, 3rd, etc… of a saga.
Please could you advice on how to get it working ?
Thanks!
In short: you can’t.
You can switch to an other-video type library where Plex will use the raw file names as title of an item — but there’ll be no additional metadata whatsoever (except for metadata embedded in the file itself).
That being said… you should already be able to get what you’re aiming for with a regular Plex movie library.
When matched and metadata is available, Plex will give you the title of the item in the language selected for this library (with an option to override that language per item). Plex will also store the original title and items can be found by searching for that.
There’s the option to set a sort title to keep related releases in order, e.g.
| Title | Sort Title |
|---|---|
| Jurassic Park | Jurassic Park 1 |
| The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Jurassic Park 2 |
| Jurassic Park III | Jurassic Park 3 |
Personally I prefer placing those movie series into their own collections to de-clutter my library.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/
Thanks for the explanation. I think there is still something to improve in plex. First would much simple to just allow the filename to be shown as title and that we can string search against it.
Here an example of file I have in my folder:
‘Una poltrona per due (Remastered) [Trading Places][1983][UHD].mkv’
I use the italian title first, few times I add in “()” some more info (usually a number in cases like you example on Jurrassic Park), [Original title], [year], [resolution].
My plex library is set for italian. When I search in italian it works as expected: If I type “una pol” it alreay matches against “Una poltrona per due”. But if I try with the original title I do not have a match unless I write the full title (“trading places”, match is case insensitive). But If I start writing “trading plac” it won’t show any match (No results were found for the search term “trading plac”). That seems a bug.
We should be able to get result in the original title (like we have for the translated title).
A simple string search on my filename would be of course simpler to and working as I expect since it’s me writing all the strings I want to match for that movie…
Is it not possible to programmatically change “Title”, “Sort Title”, “Original Title” ?
I mean using some command line command from plex or by creating some file that plex can read to get metadata (like .nfo or .json or whatever) ?
That would just allow me to customise as I want… Doing it manually (using the web interface) in not practical when you have a lot of movies…
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