Plex Scanner / Agent - ignore MP4 tags?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I am using the “Plex Scanner” and “Plex Agent” for my movies library, but where do I find the setting for this?
In the server config for agents I only see Plex Scanner (legacy) as a Plex related option.

The problem I am having is when MP4 files have embedded metadata Plex seems to be using it no matter what I do.
As an example the film & the file after named as “My really great film (2020).MP4”
Plex gets the film, gets the synopsis etc from the web, but shows the title in the library as “My.really.great.film.(2020).h264.wilecoyote” and this seems to be because the MP4 had it’s own metadata that indicates this is the title.
I have repacked these files in the past to remove the metadata, but its a pain - is there some way I can tell Plex to just ignore this data?

Thanks!

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The newer agents are managed per library. You should find those under … > Manage Library > Edit… → Advanced (from the library‘s context menu).

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Perfect, thankyou! - I’d been in there but hadn’t realised that was different to the other agent configuration page (and also hadn’t spotted the box for not using local assets!)
Will save me a lot of time!

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