Recently I’ve been building a library of older cartoons for my daughter to watch. I purchased the Care Bears dvd set from Amazon and so I could just rip it down to mp4 and put on my media server EZ-PZ right? Nope. So far the only match I can get to work is S04E02 Hearts at Sea. If I change the file name to S04.E01 just to see what happens, it just says Episode 1 which hints to me that the lookup is failing.
Now I looked into the metadata process and I can see that it in fact does not use IMDB for shows but rather, it uses “The Movie DB” (IMDB seems to have better matches but OK lets just roll with it). I look up the care bears there and it’s not even close to matching. To be sure I verify my server config in https://app.plex.tv/desktop#!/settings/server/ for “shows” is set exactly the way I’m describing - no imdb, TheTVDB tab only has TheTVDB checked, The Movie Database tab only has The Movie Database checked. No site (listed at least) seems to match what is getting pulled in by metadata .
Ultimately, I just want to know how I can tell what source is being used for the metadata i’m seeing. If I can determine that, then I can just rename all 60+ episodes to get the right titles etc…
If that fails I will try to produce the metadata from what I see on IMDB.com and set up the local media assets.
FileBot (link in my signature) can handle that for you automatically or manually in seconds.
What FileBot can’t do is remove possible embedded metadata in the Title Field of MP4/M4V files. Plex will read this info and prefer it over a perfect file name/structure, but you can combat that situation by moving Local Media Assets to the bottom of every agent list you can find. All tabs in TV Shows and Movies here: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200241558-Agents
Just drag LMA to the bottom of the list and drop it. If you do have embedded metadata this will cure the issue, if you don’t it won’t matter. LMA will do what it has to from the bottom.
Renaming/restructuring is best performed OUTSIDE the library and you may need to write a new bundle for the show or movie so The Plex Dance® was invented:
