Hi, all,
I just started with Plex, thinking it may be a great way to move my TV content from iTunes onto my FreeNAS system and play it on my Apple TV 4 without resorting to an iPad and Airplay or similar means.
So, I have this collection of TV series, where I legally own the respective DVDs and ripped them all for convenience, watching while traveling etc. I meticulously tagged all the files manually with MetaX, now MetaZ. This includes episode summary, cover art, cast, director, year of production etc. … everything 
To my big surprise Plex doesn’t care about all that information that is already there and instead reaches out to Internet databases based on the filenames - what the …? What kind of a concept is that? I mean, works (sort of) for more or less mainstream stuff, but guess what happened when I added my files of the 1978-1980 TV series “Battlestar Galactica”? Right, it shows arbitrary metadata from the current TV show, which I am not at all interested in.
So, two questions: how do I get the metadata that is already in the files to be shown in Plex? And how can I disable all other agents? I don’t want any “automatically” downloaded information from the net.
Any hints greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Patrick
My opinion? Make sure your files are named correctly (use "filebot** if you need to) and the metadata that Plex will pull down should be more complete and better than what you have. Yeah It’s a bit of a change in thinking, but TRY it.
Adjust the agent list so local media assetsis listed first.
Ref:https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200241558-Agents
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Too much work, too little time to toy with Plex. Well, thanks. But I did put the “local media assets” on top, still the ID3 tags that are inside my media files are not read. From what I found the “local media assets” agent uses metadata in separate files …
I’ll keep on trying …
Patrick
@pmhausen said:
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Too much work, too little time to toy with Plex. Well, thanks. But I did put the “local media assets” on top, still the ID3 tags that are inside my media files are not read. From what I found the “local media assets” agent uses metadata in separate files …
I’ll keep on trying …
Patrick
It simply doesn’t work. It thinks all the 616 movies in my library were made in the last three years, including the silent films. Lead actors listed in the casts of the embedded metadata are ignored in favor of randomly chosen 5-and-under bit players. The most annoying part of this is that many of the synopses on sites like The Movie Database and IMDb etc. are seemingly written by people who are barely literate, either did not comprehend or have never seen the films they’re supposed to be describing & whose synopses sound as though they’ve been bounced through the blender of a dozen different language translations before making it to “English”. Sometimes, Plex will parse my genre fields, but not the release year or actors. Sometimes, it will parse, my synopses but nothing else. Sometimes, it’ll mismatch a movie entirely & even change the poster art to something wrong. This software seems to be built less for people with a ‘film collection’ than those who grab anything they can torrent & who couldn’t care less about any of the metadata since they don’t even know what they have.
