Currently, Plex movie metadata editing (titles, genres and such) with Plex Media Server / Plex Media Player is rather painful and needs to be done on a movie per movie basis.
There used to be easier solutions, like PlexEditor for Windows.
Unfortunately PlexEditor seems to no longer exist.
And SQLiteSpy is not really user-friendly when you don’t know SQL.
So, are there other Windows-based solutions to edit Plex database (mainly tag info : titles, genres and such) in a user-friendly way ?
Sorry guys, but no, that’s not what I’m looking for.
@BigWheel , I know that I can select multiple movies. But it’s not user-friendly at all, because you don’t have access to the individual tag values (only the “MIXED” mention appears, that sucks). If you want to know what I mean, take a look at foobar2000 for instance, most certainly the best tag editor on the planet. When I want to edit tags of multiple audio files, I can select them one by on, then right-click, select Properties, select the tag fields that I want to edit one by one, and then a made-to-measure mini-matrix opens, where I can edit each and every one of the tags individually. Everything can be edited in a breeze. Plex is FAR, FAR AWAY from that level of user-friendliness.
Other things that I can do with foobar2000 include copying one tag field to another for any number of files (imagine selecting a bunch of files in Plex and then copying all their Titles to the Original Title tag field, or the other way, in a single operation).
@tom80H , I already have all the “automatic metadata”, but that’s not what I want. I want to customize genres, original titles and such. And I don’t want to do it individually on PMS for hundreds of files.
A Windows software like PlexEditor would make things much easier. So that’s the kind of thing I’m looking for. Thanks !
bump, this would be super useful to have an editor that can manipulate the metadata within Plex. The Web interface doesn’t provide any type of mass editing of metadata where these tagging type tools have excelled in the past for audio files. I used to use one and it was great but unfortunate there is not a way in Plex to do mass editing today.
I want to tag many different movies with a Christmas genre and can’t do this en-mass. It’s a manual thing and the ability to tag TV episodes instead of seasons would be even better.
Folks with huge libraries and want to customize their metadata easily would surely benefit from this.
May I suggest that you use MP3 Tag. I’ve used it to prep all of my PLEX data. There are a few PLEX custom fields that are not available through Windows-accessible tagging but most of it you can use here. I use MP3 Tag for all my audio and video tagging. The capability of MASS-change you will really like!
