# Metadata to local file Info "Push" **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [November 6, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-to-local-file-info-push/213217 "2017-11-06T23:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BikeBaMf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/bikebamf/32/24811_2.png) [@BikeBaMf](https://forums.plex.tv/u/BikeBaMf)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-to-local-file-info-push/213217/1 "2017-11-06T23:04:00Z")
I’m not certain if this has been brought up before, i searched and found(what seemed like external ways for this) some scripts alongs with software to do it automatically, but i think it would be pretty cool if plex, after having pulled the metadata and the user having gone through their library, gave you an option in the setting menu that could “push” the metadata to the actual file and rename the file. If this has been mentioned before my apologies. ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-to-local-file-info-push/213217/2 "2021-03-01T21:35:08Z")
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate > [@\[Feature Request\] Metadata Write Back](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-metadata-write-back/119947): > > I would like to see an optional item in libraries to write metadata changes back to the original media files. For my use case in particular my primary interest would be in ID3 tags for MP3 files and iTunes style tags for MP4 files. I have spent quite a bit of time properly tagging my media files and those tags are what allowed Plex to quickly make sense of my collection. So it bothers me that if I make a quick edit in Plex it is permanently locked into Plex’s internal database and not written b… ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/metadata-to-local-file-info-push/213217/3 "2021-06-10T00:43:14Z")