Just finished ripping 500 DVDs into Plex then spending hours editing the movie titles. I liked the software and have now signed up for Plex Pass. I access Plex today and it has changed most of my movie titles back to the unacceptable title that I started with. FRUSTRATED. What did I do wrong. Not that computer literate. I am not going back to edit file names again til I find out what went wrong. Seems like i am seeing that is a known problem with Plex for the last few YEARS!.
Show me some of the file names you have. (partial screen shot will do)
If it’s obvious, I’ll point it out… If not, we’ll figure it out
I add the year after & I check spelling @ imdb.com
Sample of my layout:
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).avi
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010).avi
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011).avi
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).avi
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009).avi
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).avi
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).avi
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001).avi
I also put the movie title followed by the year in parenthesis. Plex replaced the spaces with an underscore which I prefer not to have. I went in and edited the Title and Sort Title into what I wanted to see and how I wanted it to sort the movie. In sort field I did not put all the title sometimes. On movies such as all the James Bond movies that I have I listed the Sort Title as James Bond 1, James Bond 2 etc. I was trying to get the to appear in order of release on the main page. Even though I removed all the underscores and edited the Sort Title Plex has reverted the Title and Sort Title to Movie Title_(Year). I spend several hours changing Titles and Sort Titles and all that work is now gone.
Have you looked at the metadata on the actual file? I know in the past, some of my movies have had a weird title embedded in the actual file. Once I’ve removed that, Plex used the title I gave it.
I use CouchPotato to rename to a format that Plex likes and puts each into individual folders named correctly. I think at one time years ago I had my Plex Agents listing in an incorrect order and it kept using a title from the metadata of the file or something strange like that. Once I set the order correctly it hasn’t happened again.
If you have a LOT of files to rename, i’d just set CouchPotato to look at that directory, and tell it where to rename and move them to. If you need screencaps of CP showing this, let me know.
ryry46d9,
I’ll just add that you should move away from AVI files as fast as possible. Rip to MP4 with H.264 and save yourself a lot of grief.
I ripped my DVDs to .MP4. Not that computer literate. Where do i find the Meta data on the movie file.
Here is a quick how-to if you’re using Windows - https://www.digitalcitizen.life/what-file-s-metadata-and-how-edit-it. Pay special attention to the Title and Name fields. That’s usually where something creeps in. Give it a try on a couple of problem videos and see if that helps.
Ok so do I need to go in and remove the title metadata and the go in and edit the title and sort title on the 500 movies files I just ripped. Will that mean all this work will not be overridden again?
I would try maybe 5 movies and see if your changes make a difference and to make sure nothing gets overridden again. If those 5 work, then yes you will have to do the 500 files. But again, I would do them in bunches just in case.
BigGDallas:
The james bond’s “files” need to be labeled as, with .*** being whatever format you encoded in.
Dr. No (1962).***
From Russia with Love (1963).***
Goldfinger (1964).***
Spectre (2015).***
I have never seen Plex add “_” to a file name, I know FTP clients can do that.
I think what you need to do is make playlists and change your view from “title” to “year”
cayars:
I used to rip my DVD’s with DVD::RIP (Linux program) with a Xvid codec . Now I use Handbrake with H.264
And to be clear on directions… for the metadata field “Title”, all you should do is delete anything in it. Do not feel that you have to “correct” the title entry, you don’t. Just erase it entirely.
