I cant get my Titles to stay. When I rename a Title of a movie I rename both the “Title” and Sort Title" headings and Im sure to always lock the Title and Sort Title. When I come back to Plex the next day a great many Titles are back to their original, as if I had never changed it.
Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks for that.
My problem isnt with “unmatched” movies. These are matched, just named wrong or sometimes they have wrong dates. Or my ripper outputs the movie in.a.form.that.adds.dots.between.the.title.words.
I go in and manually change them (yesterday I spent all day just to be sure what I thought was happening was actually happening) by the end of the evening I had “fixed” every single title on my PC. This morning I open Plex and hundreds of titles are right back to where they were.
Kind of a waste of time.
What I mean by that: are they technically matched, in the sense of “has Plex found a matching entry for this movie in one of its metadata sources?”
You can tell if you take a look into the ellipsis (...) menu. If there is a menu item ‘Fix Match’, then the movie is matched.
If there is merely ‘Match’, then it is unmatched.
Another possibility is this: if your media storage is not inside the Plex server machine, you must never activate this checkbox:
Settings - Server - Library - ‘Empty trash automatically after every scan’
When I click on the ellipsis menu while perusing Movies I see a variety of menu offerings, about half have "Fix Match…"along with “Unmatch”. About the other half of my library has no reference to “Match” at all and has instead a “Refresh Metadata” offering in the menu.
My storage is on the same machine (PC) as the Plex server. Clearly there is some automated process that is doing this but its so random its hard to pin down.
Not ob the main page of Plex web.
Always click through to the preplay page of the movie. Only then you’ll see the whole menu.
Could you post the Plex XML info of one or two affected movies?
Really everything seems fine relative to matching. This is about the title.
As an example I have a file correctly identified as “Siam Sunset”. Everything is correct on the preplay page. The correct cover art is there, cast info is correct, theres also ratings and a bunch of other info, all correct. When I click on “Get Info” the menu that appears indicates where the movie resides and correctly identifies the movie: "Letter of Drive:\Movies\Recent\Siam Sunset 1999.mp4 " But what it displays as its name on the prelay page is “Siam.Sunset.1999.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC…” I edit that on the preplay page…I click on “Edit” and I change the name to “Siam Sunset (1999)” and it accepted the overwrite and correctly displayed this info. I come back to it the next morning and the title has reverted to “Siam.Sunset.1999.1080p.BluRay.H264.AAC…”
Everything else is correct and has always been correct, just the title reverts to…
I suppose this has to do with the file itself and embeded info somewhere that Im not finding.
In the end though Im not sure how important this is. Its just frustrating.
These appear indeed to be caused by embedded metadata.
You could clear those out, prior to adding the files into Plex.
Or you do this:
Go to
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
Afterwards, ‘Refresh Metadata’ on the affected movies.
Was having the same issue and after doing these steps my library is back to normal, though I can’t say exactly which part did it. Only thing I did different was “Refresh All Metadata” on the sidebar so I didn’t have to go through and individually refresh the million movies that were affected.
Thanks!
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