Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker metadata not updating

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
1

For some reason, the latest Star Wars movie is not having it’s metadata updated on Plex. The file has the same naming convention as the other 100+ movies on the server. Not sure why it’s not scrubbing it.

Screen Shot 2020-03-26 at 2.31.20 PM
Screen Shot 2020-03-26 at 2.31.20 PM883×566 46.8 KB

2

If you try a manual match it returns Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

Try renaming to Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker (2019), w/o “Episode IX” in the title.

You may have to Plex Dance after renaming.

1 Like
3

I don’t know if this matters but the title you have is not the same as IMDB they show: “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” no ‘Episode IX’ so you’re not getting a match.

Got to the vertical … (more) and fix match. It should find Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and match too it. Your data will come in.

1 Like
4

This is very common with some groups. If you set up your “Local Media Assets” as the primary information type in Settings–>>Agents, then hte Metadata will be taken form the details in the actual container of the file (.avi/.mkv/.mp4/etc.).
Check you settings and/or right click on the file in windows, go to Properties, then to the Details tab. There, if the Description section has something, you can remove it manually, or with third party tools.
This, for example is the embeded info on the latest episode of Picard.
picarderror

5

That’s not entirely correct.
The behavior you describe only applies mostly only to mp4/m4v files. Plex isn’t reading embedded metadata from mkv.

6

Well, for me, if it shows up in the description that is the description that gets shown in Plex. I can disable the local media assets or move it to the bottom of the list, but then other personal videos that I do have tagged that way show wrong data, so I have spent quite some time removing the embedded tags of lots of movies and shows to avoid this. And yes, mp4 and mkv are the majority of my files.
Now since you seem to have a different take on this (more knowledge), please share so that I can avoid doing this in the future.
Thanks in advance

7

Thanks! This worked :slight_smile:

8

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.