Movie name instead of filename and local subtitles

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Running Plex as a package on my Synology DS1019+ version 1.16.0.1226
Server Version#: 1.16.0.1226
Player Version#: n.a.

In the agents settings, for example for Plex Movie I can either set Local Media Assets on top or OpenSubtitles.org. In both cases I will have them both enabled.

What happens is that if I have Local Media Assets on top then the subtitles that are in the folder with the movie will work. I can select them. (Sometimes the added subtitles work while the opensubtitles ones are not available or are not ok)
The problem is, when I have Local Media Assets on top then the name of the movie is sometimes the filename of the movie instead of the actual movie name. That is really annoying.

If I set OpenSubtitles on top then the names are all ok but the local subtitles are not available. (I can’t select them)

How can I get both local subtitles to work (preferably together with the ones of OpenSubtitles) and also have the actual movie names as found with the scrapers?

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This is caused by embedded ‘Title’ meta tags in your files. (Only in mp4 / m4v files)
Remove them. (On Windows, you can use for instance mp3tag to do it. )

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Yes, thank you! I can use mp3tag to easily find all the files that have the title tags filled in. The mp3tag app is a little slow to edit them though (it copies the complete file which is slow over my current wifi) so I use windows explorer to go to the properties of the file and remove the title. This is relatively fast and works. :slightly_smiling_face:

Would be nice if there is a automated way in synology or plex but for now this is good enough. (I only have a few files with the title tag)

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