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 metadat…

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.

Hi @OttoKerner , apologies for the delay. 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 …

As long as your tv show episodes are stored inside a mp4/m4v file container, Plex should be able to extract and use the Title meta tag from them.

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…

An MKV file is not a mp4 file. Plex can only read metadata from mp4 files.

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…

There are already existing requests to read metadata from mkv file read episode titles from file names

For the kind of content above, you might rather want to add them as local extras. https://support.plex.tv/articles/local-files-for-tv-show-trailers-and-extras/ The workaround to use Season 00 is no longer necessary. Season 00 should be used for actual special episodes.

[image] OttoKerner: read metadata from mkv file read episode titles from file names Thank you. could you link those here? When searching in the forums for those requests I can only find my own.

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 unmatched, prefer local metadata. Else, DON'T

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If unmatched, prefer local metadata. Else, DON'T

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