I am using Plex as a plugin on FreeNAS, not that this really matters in the scenatio.
I have downloaded a playlist from YouTube and have named them in the following way:
GTA V - S01EX - Prologue.mp4
Where X is the episode number and then ‘Prologue’ is the unique title for each video.
I have added all these videos to the folder and created a Playlist and Plex has seen the Season and added all of the downloaded playlist together. This is great until I go to find a video and their titles in Plex are ‘Episode 1’ rather than ‘Prologue’
How can this be resolved so I have the names of the episodes displaying in Plex?
In there, grab the line ‘Local Media Assets’ with your mouse and drag it downwards, so it ends up being at the bottom of the stack of active agents.
Repeat the same under
Settings - Server - Agents - Shows - TheMovieDatabase
Settings - Server - Agents - Movies - Plex Movie
Settings - Server - Agents - Movies - TheMovieDatabase
Afterwards, ‘Refresh Metadata’ for the whole series.
You are probably misunderstanding what this configuration change does.
I assume that these titles ‘Episode 1’ and so on, are embedded into your files as ‘meta data’.
Plex’s default is to prioritize these embedded metadata.
My suggested change will give the online metadata sources (like TheTVDB) priority instead.
I understand that, there are no metedata tags in the files themselves as I have checked. Giving TVDB priority will not solve mt problem as the TV Show is custom. Not a mainstream TV Series
A ‘custom’ tv show is a challenge indeed.
Plex does not read the title of the episode from the file name.
However, since you have these files in .mp4 containers, you can embed the episode titles yourself and take advantage of Plex’s ability to read the embedded meta data from mp4 files.
You need a way to automatically read the episode titles from the file names and embed them as meta data into your mp4 files.
On Windows there is mp3tag which can do it.
It has a feature ‘Convert > Filename-Tag’
If you use the pattern %dummy% - %dummy% - %title% you will get exactly what you need.
Although I recommend to make the configuration change anyway.
Some software out there embeds pretty silly titles (I’m looking at you, Handbrake!) and you don’t want them to appear in Plex if the online databases are able to deliver correct titles.
If the files didn’t have meta tags before, mp3tag must re-write the complete file to make room at the beginning for meta tags. It can’t be avoided.
The good thing is that you can also use mp3tag to optimize these files for streaming, which I definitely recommend (at least if you want to use the ‘remote access’ feature of Plex).
I don’t know any other method.
I mean you don’t have to sit in front of the computer while it is chewing away on these files.
Just start the process and then go to bed or to work.
