Use filenames as title of last resort for TV Episodes

Feature Suggestions
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I know this has been discussed in other suggestions, to no avail for specific situations. I encode in MKV format, so metadata is not available. I meticulously enter the TV show title as the filename for every TV episode I import into PLEX, but routinely, the TV show episodes are not retrieved from the TVDB (or other DBs), so my episodes are named Episode 1, Episode 2, etc. WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE to default, when no other episode names are found online or via metadata, to USE THE FILENAME?

Thanks for listening (again!). I’ve been using PLEX since it was in beta, and really like it and depend on it for my TV/Movie library, Please keep up the good work, and please consider implementing this suggestion!!!

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As you pointed out… there’s already an existing suggestion discussing such an option. I recommend you comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes. Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread as a duplicate.

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tom80H: Thanks for the suggestion, but all of the requests I checked have already been locked.

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The one I’ve linked above isn’t. The closed ones should contain a similar link.

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tom80HPlex Ninja: OK, I missed that (open) one! Thanks. I’ve voted for it, so you can close this one.

Thanks!

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2023 clean-up: duplicate