How to pull episode titles on "other videos" library

I have BJJ instructional videos that I have. When creating a TV show library I want the individual episode names to show up on plex. I have the files named, I also have the “title” tag named via mp3tag as well. However it’s not working. Any ideas?

Just let me get this straight…

  • you’ve got a bunch of instructional videos organized as a tv-show in a personal video library
  • the videos are all mp4/m4v files
  • the files have embedded metadata (e.g. episode name, show name, season, episode)
  • you have configured your library to prefer embedded metadata
  • after adding the files, Plex recognized them as the respective show but won’t display the embedded title – instead showing the files as Episode 1…?
  • Yes
  • Yes
  • As far as metadata they have Episode name as the “title”, Episode number as the “track numer” and artis/album artist is the guy who made the instructionals. I can add Season as the disc number or album name I guess?
  • By preferring embedded metadata how do I do that? Is that setting agent to “Personal Shows”? if so then Yes
  • Yes

So bit of an Update. Somehow, forced metadata refresh pulled file names for 2 other instructional sets. But the one I posted in the OP.

This one works

As you can see it’s got identical naming scheme and the metadata according to mp3tag is identical

Check the library context menu: > Manage Library > Edit...Advanced

Right, I have it set to “Personal Shows” already on there. What am I supposed to change it to?

The personal shows agent should already look for the embedded metadata.
Can you double-check what information you have stored in those files?

Side note:

If you want Plex to properly recognize your files, best use the correct naming schema with the episode files being named like Show Name - sXXeYY - <optional title>.ext (where XX is the season number, YY is the episode number and .ext is a placeholder for the actual file extension).

I tried that as well, all it idd was change the titles on plex to be the date. Again though I have 2 other series with exact same naming scheme and metadata filled out and they’re pulling titles just fine

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