Over the years I have used a wide variety of jukebox systems, all of which used my titles. I am building a media server and my favorite jukebox has been abandoned, so I discovered Plex.
After taking a lot of time naming my folders and file names after the “proper” IMDB titles. I was dismayed to see so many tiles were incorrect. Based on the format, it seems the titles are coming from meta values embedded in the videos when they were digitized. In a lot of cases, Plex recognizes the movie, but in either case, it overrules the title with the meta title. I want the titles to be displayed as I titled them.
In my attempt to find an answer to the question I saw where the bad title could be coming from the meta, but none of the possible answers seemed to fit or to solve the problem. I am happy to let Plex grab posters, etc., although 90% of my movies already have the right poster file named the same as the movie. A lot of the folders also contain NFO files with correct info.
I suspect there is a simple setting I am missing and will “correct” this issue?
Thanks in advance!
Lew
What is probably happening is the Local Media Assets agent is seeing the embedded metadata and using that. You can set it to a lower priority (or turn it off) in “Setting -> Server -> Agents”
REF: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200241558-Agents
REF: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220677-Local-Media-Assets-Movies
additionally to what @hthighway has said above:
Setting the priority of an agent is by dragging its line higher or lower in the screenshot above.
For your particular issue, you want to drag the ‘Local Media Assets’ line downwards, so it sits below ‘Freebase’ and ‘TheMovieDB’.
Afterwards, you want to perform the Plex Dance with all the movies which have a bad title or are ‘mismatched’.
Thanks for being so prompt and thorough. Since is just my first folder of movies, only 1100 movies, can’t I find and zap the database and just start over. Seems simpler than trying to go through multiple steps to get there?
Thanks so much!
You can delete the library as such. The result is the same.
But you then have to endure the long-ish matching and metadata download process again for 1100 movies.
It seemed I would have to do the “plex dance” which sounded WAY too complicated to clean out the database…as it is, even after uninstalling the server, deleting all folders I knew it created, it still retained info…must have been in the register. It has completed all the matching. Now I am mainly dealing with ones it couldn’t find. Some are not in either dBase. They are in IMDB. My previous program allowed entry of the IMDB #.
Part 2…if I am accessing the content from a Windows Media Server and a ReadyNAS. Will the corrections and changes be stored in the movie folder for access by both, or would both need to be corrected?
Thanks!
OMG…was editing the movies that weren’t matched or were miss-matched. Have no idea what I did, but all of a sudden all of the art was lost. OK…after looking further, I have two “Movies” directories and neither one looks like the one I was working on which seemed to be OK other than a few problems. Now I have one with no art, and one with some art but a lot of problems…
where is the delete everything button…?
Sorry for being a nuisance…found the delete library step which I did for the two libraries…I appreciated all the other tips a lot!
Another helpful (albeit too late now) tip is to use tools such as Filebot, https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/191687/plex-naming-schemes-for-filebot - for easier renaming. Remember also that Plex checks the movie database, not imdb (afaik).
Thanks Ninja Peter… I have used renamers in the past but have forgotten which ones, but they work similarly, but maybe not with settings for Plex. Really appreciate it!
