Server Version#: 1.40.0.7998
Player Version#: 4.123.2
Hi
Sorry if this has been answered and I didn’t see it.
But how do you get Plex to stop cropping movie titles. I find movies with A or The at the beginning are getting cropped and I don’t want that.
I’m not familiar enough with the behind settings to fix this, provided its possible
See the option ArticleStrings in this support article .
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201105343-advanced-hidden-server-settings/
Thank you but sadly I do not understand what it all means. I am not registry editing savy. I thought there was a setting i didn’t check or something
The setting is not in the interface it is only accessible via the advances settings which for Windows is stored in the registry. There is a link in the article @tom80H on the basics of using the registry editor to change a value.
Okay I looked at it and I get how to find and create it, I’m just confused on what i’m supposed to enter. Is it what said at the top to create or the articlestrings.
sorry i don’t want to mess things up
In this case you want to remove the current values that it has. the, das, der, a, an, el, la
So that it does not remove them from the Sort Title.
after you do that refresh metadata for the library
To add to BigWheel, if ArticleStrings doesn’t exist in your registry (it didn’t for me), you’ll want to create a new “String Value” and leave it blank if you don’t want Plex ignoring any words when creating the sort title:
Running the following from a command prompt will work as well:
REG ADD "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Plex, Inc.\Plex Media Server" /v "ArticleStrings" /t REG_SZ /d ""
No, it will only work if Plex server is running as admin as well – and that is bad practice.
Good callout, I forgot that HKCU can be modified without elevation. The command should work as long as it’s run as the user Plex runs under I think.
HI DTR
I created ArticleStrings, left data blank and i updated my libraries but nothing has changed. All my media hasnt updated to the change
What do you mean by „updating libraries“, did you refresh their metadata?
AFAIR this only affects newly added items, and Plex danced ones.
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