Home TV Show showing episode numbers and air dates randomly

[bleedscarlet]

Server Version#: 1.19.3.2852
Player Version#: Web 4.34.3, but doesn’t matter, multiple devices all have the same issue

This is the issue I’m having, I’ve tried rescanning, renaming all of the files with a different naming convention, idk why some episodes show as Episode # and some show with air date.

This is not a real TV show, these are recordings from my D&D game’s live stream that I keep on plex (since all of my players are also on my plex server)

[bleedscarlet]

and then to make matters more annoying because of the mixed episode and air dates, they’re in the wrong order :-/

[tom80H]

Looks like your mp4 files might have embedded metadata (at least some of them).
Ways to fix this:

1. remove the embedded metadata
2. decrease the priority of Local Media Assets for the applicable agent (or disable local media assets entirely – however that’ll also drop the theme music).

[bleedscarlet]

Would decreasing the priority make a difference, since this TV show isn’t real and tvdb etc. won’t have any info on it (or worse, horribly inaccurate information because of a random name similarity)?

[tom80H]

fair point. that’ll pretty much just leave disabling local media assets for the Personal Media Shows agent (or dropping the embedded metadata)

[bleedscarlet]

I’ve been lazy about re-encoding the twitch downloads to 265 so I guess I’ll do that and see if the conversion (and stripping of metadata) fixes it.

[tom80H]

keep in mind – you don’t need to convert the video to strip away the embedded metadata.

[bleedscarlet]

What do you recommend? I’m not sure how to do that

[tom80H]

you could remove the embedded title using a tag editor (there’s “Subler” on macOS; I believe mp3tag will do the same on Windows). If it’s solely about dropping the embedded title, you should be able do do that via the file properties in Windows’ File Explorer.

Alternatively simply re-mux the files to a container from where Plex won’t read the embedded metadata (e.g. using MKVToolNix). This will keep the audio/video streams unchanged but prevent Plex from pulling any metadata from within the file.

[bleedscarlet]

Thanks, that workaround fixed my issue! I had to remove and replace all of the files to “shake it” from plex’s database but after that everything is sorted by Air Date now.