Greetings. I’m looking for a little help in terms of file names, and how they’re displayed. I have a bunch of old time radio MP3 files that I’ve downloaded. I store them as ‘music.’ I don’t really want/need any meta data involvement. Initially, when downloaded, each mp3 included both the name of the episode and the yymmdd of the episode. I didn’t want those numbers cluttering up my file names–which I just wanted to display alphabetically–so I changed EACH file name, deleting the numbers and just keeping the episode names. AND YET, Plex seems somehow to know this and is displaying the episode date [see pic]. I’ve done a Plex edit on a couple of files and I see that I can take the numbers out, but this seems very tedious. Is there a general setting that I can tweak that will make it so that Plex will just display the file name as it appears in Finder? [Mac OS here]. Thanks! Tim M.
Plex doesn’t “know”. But it will look at the file’s embedded meta tags und read some information from there, if it cannot deduce from the file name and the folder structure what kind of “music” that is.
So you should see if you can look at these meta tags and maybe remove or edit them.
Mp3tag is a GREAT program for displaying all the metadata in music files, and allowing for you to delete all of one particular field/tag all at once.
You can use this program to auto-name your files based on existing tags, or auto-set tag data from filenames.
It should be trivial to load your entire music library at once into the program (may take time to parse it all), or do it in staggered steps such as a certain number of folders at a time.
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