# \[Feature Request\] Metadata Write Back

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-metadata-write-back/119947>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [October 23, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-metadata-write-back/119947 "2015-10-23T17:59:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![antgiant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@antgiant](https://forums.plex.tv/u/antgiant)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-metadata-write-back/119947/1 "2015-10-23T17:59:34Z")

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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 back to the file where it could help other players, in the same way that Plex was helped by it being there in the first place.

For instance I use Plex and Kodi side by side. I point both directly to the media files. If I change some metadata in Plex that change will never be visible to Kodi. However, if I change metadata in Kodi I can do a library refresh and the change is visible in Plex.

In short I want my metadata to be free, not permanently locked away inside Plex as I use quite a few media players other than Plex.

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