Is there a way for my plex app to not show any metadata at all for my files, I just literally want it to list the files as they are titled on my computer. Just a dumbed down version of plex. The metadata stuff messed up lots of my stuff and i don’t need it. I literally just want to see the file names as i see them on my computer. I would love some detailed instructions on how to do this, thanks.
suppose you could select everything then unmatch. then use change the scanner to personal video files scanner and personal media agent then turn off local media assets for the agent is the best you can do.
to be clear Plex is not designed as a file browser.
I am the same. I want Plex to send the movie files to my player. I can’t do this in any other way except a thumb drive, so I need Plex. I have just tried Plex. It looks very good. I would be happy for it to find metadata and pictures, but many are wrong–too many to fix by hand in a large library. I’d like to know how to erase the metadata and start over with the files in “other video” if that will work. I will try the directions above if I can find them. I am in Mac. I get things like this.
![thumbnails|690x384] (upload://x8Cl0l4Gwwvtln4PH6D3ZE3JCJ7.jpeg) The Sleeping Beauty I have is a recent production of the ballet. The last pic shows a “compilation” which seems to have nothing to do with any name or any grouping on my computer. Again, the scanning is amazing, sometimes is right, and I know I can change the metadata one by one myself, but the nature of what I have is such that I’d rather it didn’t do it. With my satellite internet connection it would take DAYS to scan all the mostly unfindable items I plan to put into it. So I need to get rid of the metadata and pictures and start over and keep it from doing this to me.
If you create a movie library it will assume those folders you have set for that library to look at are full of files that are movies and will attempt to gather movie posters and such for them.
if you do not want a movie library then create an “other video” library instead. an “other videos” library does not try to gather online metadata.
Thank you. I was unaware when I started what the difference was. My computer calls them “movies” with that icon. I can see that the item title New Event, which is my video shouldn’t be in “movies” though it was made with iMovie. I is ambiguous with something like Twelfth Night which is a movie purchased from the Globe theater. In that case it matched one copy to a 1996 commercial and not the 2013 Globe theatre movie, but picked up correctly the copy of the same that I converted when adding subtitles. Others also are from DVDs, but they are not normal movie theater. I was surprised by how well the search for the items did actually, pulling up covers from youtube images. I will have a go at getting rid of the metadata now. Some note defining “movie” might be helpful.
I’m really impressed with Plex but also puzzled. I discovered that it had downloaded generic icons from the site where I bought some files. The “Sleeping Beauty” picture was what the site pasted in. Plex, though, found the original movie of Sleeping Beauty–something that didn’t match my file but did match the picture the site had pasted in. I can’t unmatch it because it is not designated as “matched”. I think I can only manually replace the information? I can’t figure out how to unmatch a selected group either, only individual items. However, it managed to find thorough information that I am happy to have for some of the videos still available on youtube, so I have cast info, which is great. I will study this further and figure out how to use the software better. The experience is not unlike finding metadata and fixing data for ripped cds. Is there a manual match that I can accept or reject? I’ll see.
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