Movie title not updating despite "Fix Match"

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Hello there, how’re you doing guys?

I’m facing a really odd situation here and would like to hear from you what could possibly cause this. As you can see, for these particular movies (twilight saga) plex insists using this title. I tried refresh metadata, tried fix match and it doesn’t change. I could adjust manually of course but should it be fixing already?

Status page (after fix match)

1179×341 301 KB

Library: (one these five twilight movies seems to act this way)

Folders: (my movies folder)

483×293 11.9 KB

Files: (the movie filename structure)

Title: (the title page)

Edit:

Oh, I think is important to show that the fields are not locked.

Thank you all!

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Due to the uploader hauling out his junk and scent marking all his media by wizzing all over it - and injecting his urine stains into the Title Fields of MP4 files - you’ll need to take some steps to properly Dee-Pee it.

FileBot (link in my signature) can handle the file naming for you automatically or manually in seconds.

What FileBot can’t do is remove possible embedded metadata in the Title Field of MP4/M4V files. Plex will read this info and prefer it over a perfect file name/structure (you don’t have any of those yet), but you can combat that situation by moving Local Media Assets to the bottom of every agent list you can find. All tabs in TV Show and Movies here:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200241558-Agents
Just drag LMA to the bottom of the list and drop it. If you do have embedded metadata this will cure the issue, if you don’t it won’t matter. LMA will do what it has to from the bottom.

You could go through all your MP4s and remove those pee stains by hand, but the above is much easier - I’d still take a shower afterwards. That’s nasty.

Renaming/restructuring is best performed OUTSIDE the library and you’ll need to write a new bundle for the show so The Plex Dance® was invented:

The Plex Dance®:

  1. remove show/movie from library
  2. update library
  3. empty trash
  4. clean bundles
    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles
  5. bring names and structures into compliance/ move local media assets/ check, double check for accuracy
  6. replace corrected show/movie into library
  7. update library

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.

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Dragging the ‘Local Media Assets’ downwards
and then ‘Refresh Metadata’ on the movie(s) should be enough in this case.
So I’d try this first.

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@JuiceWSA said:
Due to the uploader hauling out his junk and scent marking all his media by wizzing all over it - and injecting his urine stains into the Title Fields of MP4 files - you’ll need to take some steps to properly Dee-Pee it.

FileBot (link in my signature) can handle the file naming for you automatically or manually in seconds.

What FileBot can’t do is remove possible embedded metadata in the Title Field of MP4/M4V files. Plex will read this info and prefer it over a perfect file name/structure (you don’t have any of those yet), but you can combat that situation by moving Local Media Assets to the bottom of every agent list you can find. All tabs in TV Show and Movies here:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200241558-Agents
Just drag LMA to the bottom of the list and drop it. If you do have embedded metadata this will cure the issue, if you don’t it won’t matter. LMA will do what it has to from the bottom.

You could go through all your MP4s and remove those pee stains by hand, but the above is much easier - I’d still take a shower afterwards. That’s nasty.

Renaming/restructuring is best performed OUTSIDE the library and you’ll need to write a new bundle for the show so The Plex Dance® was invented:

The Plex Dance®:

  1. remove show/movie from library
  2. update library
  3. empty trash
  4. clean bundles
    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles
  5. bring names and structures into compliance/ move local media assets/ check, double check for accuracy
  6. replace corrected show/movie into library
  7. update library

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.

Sir, You rock! Moving the “Local Media Assets” to bottom and trying again “Fix match” did the trick.

Thank you so much, still on my first steps with Plex but really enjoying and tempted to learn more.

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@OttoKerner said:
Dragging the ‘Local Media Assets’ downwards
and then ‘Refresh Metadata’ on the movie(s) should be enough in this case.
So I’d try this first.

Yes, it was in fact enough. Thank you very much and sorry my late response.

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Dragging the ‘Local Media Assets’ downwards
and then ‘Refresh Metadata’ on the movie(s) should be enough in this case.
So I’d try this first.

This is all I had to do. Thanks.