I’m trying to manually add metadata to a set of instructional/workout videos and want to set the metadata on the video files so that if anything happens to my Plex db, my manual work isn’t lost.
I’ve setup my library as a TV Show so I can take advantage of Season detection/organization, but I’m having trouble determining where Plex will pulls local metadata.
Using Subler, I have the following mapping (Plex field: mp4/subler field):
Show level metadata:
Title: TV Show
Summary: ?
Season level metadata:
Title: ?
Summary: ?
Episode level metadata:
Title (and Sort Title): Name
Summary: Long Description
Originally Available: Release Date
Does anyone know if its possible to fill in my missing fields from the mp4?
IIRC Plex won’t pick up season and show information from embedded metadata except show title and season number.
I’ve been playing with a similar use case a few years back and tested out the mappings using a dummy file:
copy or create a small mp4/m4v file
open it in Subler
use the option to add all tags
fill in some identifiable values for all of them (except maybe the iTunes specific ones like contentID, playlistID…); example:
title=title
summary=summary
long summary=long summary
cast=Cast 1;Cast 2,Cast 3 (use different separators to see which ones are supported by Plex to split the string into individual cast members and similar fields)
…
name and add the file as an episode of a new show to your library folder and scan the library for updates
compare where you find the entered attributes in the Plex user interface
