Server Version#: 4.12.3 Player Version#: Is there a way to force the Title and Sort Title to be the same as the Original Title? Also for the sort title, I added ArticleStrings="" at the end of the preferences.xml as I do not want plex to ignore articles when sorting. Is that the correct format f…

There is a library property called “Use original titles”. Activate it. But think twice: this will give you japanese characters for a japanese film and cyrillic ones for a russian film. [image] HairyHippy: I added ArticleStrings="" Yes, that’s correct. But it will only work for items which a…

@OttoKerner I thought I had activated that setting already somewhere but now I can’t find it… I am looking in the settings menu where it starts off with my account, online media sources, etc, and have scrolled down to “library” but cannot see a setting regarding titles at all. Am I looking in comp…

@OttoKerner Ahha! I found it, it is only in the manage library settings when adding or editing and only for the plex movie agent. I am currently transitioning from Kodi and would like to use my existing Kodi nfos and artwork and I believe that if I use TMDB agent, I can set the agent order to be: …

The .nfo importer is unfortunately a dead end, because the old agent infrastructure on which it’s relying will be gone at some point in the future. I can only recommend you to change your file organisation to something which is officially supported in Plex. Category : Your Media | Plex Support to e…

Ok, thanks for the heads up. I’m looking for speed to get this back up and running post transferring from Kodi, so will try the importer, to begin with. As for the naming of files per that link you provided, on a 3rd party application site (I won’t name it), it suggested that the new plex agent ca…

[image] HairyHippy: The Movie Title (2010) Ultimate Extended Edition [imdb-tt0066921][Surround Sound x264][Bluray-1080p Proper][3D][HDR][10bit][x264][DTS 5.1] - will the new infrastructure cope with that naming? No, this is not correct. Changing that to The Movie Title (2010) - Ultimate Ext…

[image] OttoKerner: The Movie Title (2010) - Ultimate Extended Edition [Surround Sound x264-Bluray-1080p Proper-3D-HDR-10bit-x264-DTS 5.1] {imdb-tt0066921} what about The Movie Title (2010) - Ultimate Extended Edition [Surround Sound x264][Bluray-1080p Proper][3D][HDR][10bit][x264][DTS 5.1] {…

according to this, it should be possible to have the imdb reference in [ ] [image] New Plex Media Server movie scanner and agent preview Metadata & Adding Files We now support IMDB and TMDB IDs in file names. The convention is as follows; ID must be within { } (we also…

[image] HairyHippy: apparently their’s needs the properties in “” separately Nope. Plex only ignores content between the first pair of square brackets, so all the other stuff in the following brackets can again cause mismatches.

Force Title & Sort Title to same as Original Title

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according to this, it should be possible to have the imdb reference in [ ]

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Force Title & Sort Title to same as Original Title

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