Plex won't use Filebot named files

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I got my NAS install to see series:

No thanks to the support I wasted time on on another thread that was closed on me.

But it still did not show episode NAMES. So I bought FileBot and thought this will fix it. Of course, Filebot works, lmao. It renames stuff right in front of you and you can control its results and review them, unlike Plex which is written to just do what it’s going to do and you can try and guess what went wrong.

Here are my files:

and here’s what it looks like in the app:

That looks like you have some embedded metadata in your files.

Your file names are great - what’s in them isn’t and Plex is bound and determined to prefer the embedded titles in MP4/M4V files - unless…:

Do that - then forget about it.
No more problems.

I moved it to the bottom and told it to rescan the files. No change. Jesus, the file contains the information!! omg, software is a disease…

Do this with the entire show:

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software is a disease

It is

Move the show to temp. Delete it. Empty trash. Copy it back in and rescan. Viola.

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I will make two laps with the electric toothbrush tonight but good god, I finally have episode names:

Thanks guys…

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