Enhanced Photos feature

[tom80H]

Plex doesn’t manipulate your media files. That’s been a core premise of using PMS from the very early days.

There’s an existing suggestion asking for an option to write metadata / tags back to the files where you could vote in order not to cannibalize votes… but then again, Plex have stated many times they have no intention to change their stance on not manipulating original media files…

[Feature Request] Metadata Write Back

I would like to see an optional item in libraries to write metadata changes back to the original media files. For my use case in particular my primary interest would be in ID3 tags for MP3 files and iTunes style tags for MP4 files. I have spent quite a bit of time properly tagging my media files and those tags are what allowed Plex to quickly make sense of my collection. So it bothers me that if I make a quick edit in Plex it is permanently locked into Plex’s internal database and not written b…

As for „matching the metadata embedded in photos“… there’s an existing suggestion to allow Plex to use the embedded metadata already available within a photo (similar to how Plex can be configured to use embedded metadata from certain audio / video files).

Please enable 'Use embedded tags' in Photo libraries

Now that we have an online source for tagging our photos, I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised to find that, like Last.FM and Gracenote, the online source’s accuracy (and therefore usefulness) is, shall we say, less than stellar. Plex’s implementation of the option to use embedded tags in Music libraries has, in my mind, had the greatest impact on the usability of Plex as a whole. The headaches I endured because of the garbage metadata that came from Last.FM and Gracenote are a thing of the p…