I have a TV directory and my shows named like this:
/Show Name/Season XX/Show Name - sXXeXX - Episode Name.ext
But when I view the show in Plex I can not see the “episode name”.
It just shows…
Show Name
Episode 10
S1 E10
and the only thing that chances between them are “Episode 10” to 11, 12 etc.
Does anyone know how I can get Plex to display the actual Episode name??
Thanks
Can you give an example, with the name of the show, and the exact name of the folder ? That sounds like Plex has not managed to detect the show, which results in it not pulling down any metadata (name, description, posters, etc) from online metadata sites.
The type of library could be important as well. Did you specify this as a TV Show library, or did you choose Movies or Other Videos library?
Are the files mp4/m4v?
If so, edit the library, go to the Advanced tab and disable “prefer local meta tags”.
Then Refresh Metadata of the whole show.
Yep they’re all mp4 files. Tried that and still can’t see the titles.
Ok, so the “show” is actually an online course - not specifically a TV Show but it’s setup like one in the library.
Here’s an example with the full path and filename:
/Filmmaking & Storytelling with Casey Neistat/Season 01/Filmmaking & Storytelling with Casey Neistat - s01e04 - Finding Ideas Around You (21-25).mp4
Ok, that means Plex cannot “match” it to any tv show in its online media databases.
Plex doesn’t read episode titles from the file names.
However the files being in mp4 format is a boon in this case.
You can embed the episode titles into the files as “Title” meta tags, from where Plex can read them in turn.
If all files follow the above naming schema, this is less laborious than you might assume.
You can tell Mp3tag - the universal Tag Editor (ID3v2, MP4, OGG, FLAC, ...) to parse the file names (of all episodes at once) and then extract the episode title after the second dash and write it into the Title tag.
The feature is called Convert > File to Tag
and the parser string should be working with %dummy% - %dummy% - %title%
Great, thanks OttoKerner I’ll give that a go.
Q. Is there any other library type where Plex “will” read the filename format as title?
Not for tv shows, which is what you want for content like this.
OttoKerner - have you tried changing video metadata in VLC Player (mac) yourself? (see the image attached for what I did). I just tried it and… Plex didn’t recognise the changes. 
I haven’t tried Mp3tag yet but I assume it’ll get the same result?
Seems the only way is to do it manually inside Plex itself?
EDIT: One interesting thing is, if I change the title inside Plex and then open it back up in VLC Player, when I view the metadata I can’t see the title that Plex added either. What’s up with that??
Did you Refresh Metadata of the whole show afterwards?
(The title you stored in there is wrong, btw. Only the episode title belongs in there. The Show’s general title and the season/episode code can go into other tags, but are not relevant for Plex.)
Plex doesn’t touch your media files. All changes you do per the user interface of Plex are solely done in the Plex database. They are not written into the meta tags of your media files.
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