- Follow the naming guide:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/categories/200028098-Media-Preparation
If you don’t name your files properly they won’t match properly. An unmatched file is subject to just about anything bad that can happen. A properly named and matched file is pretty stable.
Examples:
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/333371-valencia - 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
A Movie Library/
…10 Cloverfield Lane (2016).xxx
or
A Movie Library/
…10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)/
…10 Cloverfield Lane (2016).xxx
- If you’re using MP4s and have bogus titles embedded in the metadata…:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200241558-Agents
Move Local Media Assets out of the top slot by dragging and dropping the line down the list to the bottom of all the active agents (dragging it to last place will work - Plex will put it last in list of active agents). Do this in ALL tabs - Movies and Shows. Do not disable (uncheck) LMA - you’ll need LMA for subs, extras, etc.)
What this does is stop Plex from giving embedded metadata (that could be wrong) top priority. If you’re not using MP4 files this shouldn’t matter, but there could be a bug or something… Move Local Media Assets regardless and see what happens.
