Please improve reading Episode title from embedded tags

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Hello,



Can you please improve local metadata agent so it reads Episode title from embedded tags ?



I export recorded TV into a folder structure:


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1535263/Screenshots/9.jpg



Title of the show is taken from the Folder name which is okay.

But no matter into what atom I add episode title, it never gets scraped into Plex with current agents.

Making sure Episode title is in all (possible) fields...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1535263/Screenshots/a.jpg


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1535263/Screenshots/b.jpg



Yet PLex does not show episode title

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1535263/Screenshots/d.jpg





Here is the link to sample file


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1535263/Baby%20Jake%20-%202012-12-17%5B1749%5D.mp4.zip
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Looking at the Local Media Agent code, episode titles are already being retrieved from embedded tags. The “title” field is used for the episode title.


http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/3319/18429579.jpg

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Unless iTunes and other apps are reading mp4 tags wrong, artist should not be used for Episode title.



iTunes uses tags : –TVShowName “Some Showname” –TVEpisode “Episode Name″ to read metadata for TV Shows.



I’d suggest using those IF they are available. ( if not for TV Show name which seems to be hardcoded from Folder name then at least for Episode name )



Please see Atomic Parsley manual



If iTunes specific tags ( which seem to have become standard now for tagging TVShows ) are not available it still leads me to believe Artist should not be used for episode title.

Other apps such as JRiver use Artist for TVshow name and Album for Episode name because they dont have Folder name hard coded into TV Show name.



@Sanders1, is this that may be chaned in the near future or should I just modify existing agent ? If so can you please point me where I can change this ?



I’ve tried last night to change line 492 of the PersonalMedia.bundle/Contents/Code/init.py to:



<br />
   #Title from name atom<br />
    try:<br />
      title = tags["\xa9alb"][0]<br />
      item.title = title<br />
    except: pass<br />


But it did not make any difference. Title of the episode was still read the same.


Thanks

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