Hello,
I've changed bunch of metadata with my movies (TheMovieDB had wrong info) including movie title. But after some time (library refresh) the titles got changed back to those from TheMovieDB. All other information (sort title, description, etc.) remained correct (the way I've written it), but movie title didn't. The lock icon in edit metadata is locked.
How can I force Plex not to change that movie title?
Newest plexPass version of PMS, Windows 7 machine.
I am having the same issue, but can not find a solution yet.
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I am having a similar issue. This is very irritating, as I update the titles on about 150 items, only to see them reverted back to the original, regardless of the "lock"
By the way, this problem also occurs with my own personal videos (not ones from the movie DB, etc). So the ORIGINAL title generated from the filename returns even if I change it to something else.
I'm on linux / (as a jail in freenas)
please reply if anyone finds a solution.
Same problem here. It's very irritating.
After each scan, the names of some videos – always the same – are reset to the default title generated from the filename.
No idea why there ones and not all. Depends perhaps on the format or wether they contain metadata inside or not.
I locked them all, but it is either ignored or reset.
Two other things:
1. for some of these videos, when I click on edit, I have the right title again in the edits box and all I have to do it just to save. For the other ones, it displays the default title generated from the filename and I have to set the right title again.
2. for the videos that had a sort title, it is cleared out for some of them. No idea why and why not all of them.
Mavericks / 0.9.8.18
Has this ever been resolved?
This is totally unacceptable. I spent hours updating and customizing information both manually and using PlexEditor. Later, I added a few movies to my drive and even though these changes were supposedly "Locked" the $*&$@# thing screwed them all up. Most went back to thinking the movies in question were all from 2014.
When is a Lock not a Lock? When it is a Plex Lock.
Very, very frustrating indeed.
Same problem here . . . . so I guess I'll change the movie files names to match the titles I wish to have ?
Same problem here . . . . so I guess I'll change the movie files names to match the titles I wish to have ?
The answer you are going to get is... follow Plex Naming Convention and everything will work fine. I have learned this.
But it is frustrating to also learn that a "lock" does not in fact, "lock" anything.
I'm running Pelx Media Server on a Win 7 PC.
I changed a file name to "School Of Rock" without the quotes and corrected the Title to read "School Of Rock.
When I ran "Update Library" it changed the title back to "SCHOOL_OF_ROCK_4X3_TITLE1"
So I am still having the Plex problem where the title reverts back - it is not getting that title from the Filename.
I suspect it is a specific piece of meta data. Once I find that - I will edit it so that Plex will still have the title that I want, even if it reverts from the custom title that I've locked.
In fact, if I edit the medta data that the title is sourced from then I shouldn't have to customize the title in the first place.
Point is . . . . I do not want to have to repeatedly correct my titles.
No, I'm not refering to naming conventiions . . . but your comment caused me to research that.
I've paid very careful attention to TV naming conventions, and it has worked great. But I've paid little attention to Movie naming conventions.
I've simply kept them in thier own movies folder - without doing anything to the movie file name itself.
Going forward I'll closely follow the Movie naming conventions - but I don't think it's the cause of this 'title revert' problem.
Here's what I was refering to :
In Win7 Windows Explorer . . . right click on the filename, choose properties - then the Details tab - the Title is shown under the Description section. I believe it is to that Title that Plex reverts back. So I'm going to test my theory.
I have an MP4 file with a filename and title of "SLINGBLADE_SET1_Title1"
I'm going to:
1. Name the filename SLINGBLADE_FileName
2. Name the properties title SLINGBLADE_Win7
3. Name the title in PLEX, SLINGBLADE_PLEX
Then when PLEX reverts the title back, I suspect it will change (as seen in PLEX) from SLINGBLADE_PLEX to SLINGBLADE_Win7
I'll let you know.
If I am right then I'll set the desired Title in the Win 7 properties and never have to worry about this again.
I don't want the extra work - but repeatedly correcting reverted titles in PLEX is worse.
The test results were unexpected.
When I ran 'Update Library' by right clicking the PLEX icon in the Win7 TaskBar - The PLEX title reverted back to the title set in the Win 7 properties.
That's what I thought would happen.
But when I choose the circular 'Update Library' icon from within the Media Manager / brower - the PLEX title reverted back to the filename.
That I did not expect.
Someone may know of a better fix, but from what I've figured out so far - I need to make the filename and Win7 properties title both match the title I want to see in PLEX.
I am running Plex Media Server 0.9.11.1.678-c48ffd2
Someone may know of a better fix, but from what I've figured out so far - I need to make the filename and Win7 properties title both match the title I want to see in PLEX.
If there is a 'title' tag embedded in the file, plex uses it. So make sure, it contains valid content with the pattern:
Title of movie as listed on IMDB (year of first release YYYY)
or clear it completely.
Applies only to mp4 files ATM.
Thanks Plex Ninja,
I'm doing that now - so I shouldn't have any futher problems.
But to be extra sure that I won't ever have to correct the Titles in PLEX, I am using that same format to name the MP4 file, define the Title field in the file properties and as the Title field in PLEX.
For example : Despicable Me 2 (2013)
This is probably over kill - but I just don't want to ever edit roughly 100 titles again.
Should PLEX ever change its' Title to the filename or the Title field inside the MP4 file - it won't matter to me since they all match the title that I want in PLEX.
Thanks everyone for your help - hopefully this thread will help the next person.
I had issues like this with a bunch of rare movies that were not English movies and my Plex is set to English.
When set to English Plex will get metadata from the movie sites and give you the English title.
On some of my movies i had the non English version and wanted the title to be the non English title.
I found that if i named it the way i wanted it and saved it. Then did a "fix incorrect match" and select "search option" select agent "personal Media" and then select the title you had just saved. After that it no longer use the web to update the info of that movie.
If there is a 'title' tag embedded in the file, plex uses it. So make sure, it contains valid content with the pattern:
Title of movie as listed on IMDB (year of first release YYYY)or clear it completely.
Applies only to mp4 files ATM.
Thank you - I discovered this much on my my own, however, even after the title tag is cleaned it keeps the bad tag title after a refresh. Plex WAS using the Movie Database Title and, out of the blue, started using the MP4 tag as the title.
1) How can I tell plex to completely ignore the file-tag-title and always use the movie database file... ALWAYS?
2) How can I tell plex to re-name everything BACK to what it did originally after it picks up a bad title from the MP4 tag?
3) Has the lock issue been reported as a bug?
Has there been any easy fix to this yet? I am still dealing with this issue.
I would really like this issue fixed. I want to be able to have a sort title that isn’t completely the same as the title. I spent a whole day going through my movie titles, making sure the fields were locked after the changes, before I discovered this frustrating problem. I’m not even sure how it’s deciding which titles it will change to. In some cases after updating it swapped the sort title with the title. I would like to be able to group movie series in order without necessarily having to put the series name in the title. I can’t do that yet, with this bug still in place. From the dates of these posts it appears this problem has existed for almost two years. Is there seriously not a way to fix this problem? What’s the point of creating a lock feature, if the lock feature doesn’t work?
I’ve only seen this happen under 3 circumstances.
1 - The movie is unmatched
2 - movie matched manually using fix incorrect match then the file itself was changed (filename, property, etc)
3 - You are using a custom agent which is causing the problem
Do either of these describe your situation? If not, can you provide the xml for one of these movies and I’ll see if I can reproduce.
I’ve personally not had any of my custom edits change randomly on me.
i am having the same problem. i change a movies title and lock it, then it goes back to the original metadata that i changed… SO FRUSTRATING! any ways to fix this?
Nothing? I am having the same problem.
Do any of the 3 scenarios I mentioned above apply to your movie?
