It’s my understanding that currently there is only an option to prioritise local metadata for EVERYTHING in that library. This is a pain for those of us with large libraries where we are unsure as to what files may have incorrect/unfavourable local metadata, but we want Plex to utilise local metadata for e.g. individually unmatched episodes.
Use case:
Personal Media
Custom Shows you have put together-
Tutorials etc.
Episodes missing on locked shows on TheTVDB
Further Consideration:
If this feature was implemented, as Plex stands currently it would only work as intended if you had an MP4 file with the title tag information set as the episode name.
Below are two feature requests that would resolve that issue:
To clarify, the above linked features would currently only be beneficial if the ‘Prefer Local Metadata’ option is switched on, which then applies to everything in your library. Hence, my suggestion to prefer if e.g. episode is unmatched.
It’s doing that anyway. As soon as you unmatch a file, Plex will fall back to embedded metadata (if present) because there is no other metadata source.
It doesn’t do it for tv show episodes in my experience?
I appreciate it will use the title for e.g. a movie & perhaps an image for the poster, but when it comes to TV show episodes, it just lists the episodes as ‘episode 01, episode 02’ etc. Regardless of how you name the file or any tags you put in.
I find this to be the case regardless of whether it’s a TV show that’s matched but I’ve added extra episodes to (e.g. dvd specials, or missing episodes on a locked series on TheTVDB), or whether it’s something I’ve put together myself that isn’t (and doesn’t belong) on TheTVDB.
It would be good therefore if I were to name the episode of my unmatched show as:
My Unmatched Show - S01E01 - Pilot
Plex would then follow suit and list the episode name as Pilot instead of just Episode 1.
If my terminology is wrong here at all, apologies!
Hi. Thanks again for taking the time to reply.
This doesn’t seem to be the case for me, and others in various places online seem to think this isn’t an option also.
What you’re saying is how you’d expect it to work, and how I am wanting it to.
I’ve attached screenshots below for your reference. I added the tags to these episodes a moment ago, completed the plex dance in full, and the episode titles still don’t show.
Ahh misread your response, good to know moving forward.
In that case my original post still stands then.
My original post lists ‘or by grabbing the information from filenames that are named according to the naming scheme’ as an option too.
MKV files are incredibly common, and I imagine a majority are likely using h264 mkv.
Hi there.
Thank you, yes I’m aware of that and just hadn’t gotten round to it for this season yet. I just knew this was one I had in my library I could use for testing purposes for this issue
If a show is matched and an episode isn’t (e.g. like in my Parks & Rec example), and prioritise local metadata is NOT selected, will Plex match the matchable episodes to it’s TV agent, and only use the tags for the unmatched episode?
Or is it an all-or-nothing scenario? (i.e. all of them use the tags, or all of them don’t)
So I’ve tested it with an mp4 and turns out my initial suggestion is still an issue, I’ve just merged multiple issues into one post unknowingly.
Adding the MP4 as an additional episode to this matched season with the tag information doesn’t pull in the episode name from the tag.
This would work with the Prefer Local Metadata option turned on, however this would apply globally to the library and affect matched content where I would NOT want to prefer local metadata.
Therefore my suggestion of ‘If Unmatched, prefer local metadata. Else, DON’T’, is appropriate and separate to the other issues raised. I’ll update the post accordingly to clarify
