Hello everyone,
sorry guys, it may have been already answered, but still I could not find a precise answer on the forum after my research.
Can anyone tell me how to embed manually entered metadata with plex onto files?
If I move my files rearranging my library, any time I still loose proper association, thus film info, artwork… anytime I have to manually re-enter wrong files association that plex does onto some files.
Thank you!!!
Using the plex metadata editor does not embed any data into your files. Plex will never write information to your files. It stories the entered data into its database. Then if you move stuff around it maybe the equivalent of a plex dance depending on what you do which is like creating the entry again in the db from scratch.
You would need to use an external tool to embed metadata into your files but be aware using embedded metadata with plex can be swamped with problems unless you absolutely know what you are doing.
ohh that’s great, thank you!!! My main pourpose, since I’m rebuilding my server/home theatre, building up hardware would be to avoid plex to reassing wrong metadata/connection to the files.
thank you for your time and support!!
I’ll let others respond to your questions. I don’t use embedded metadata for my movie or tv media. I actually scrub my files to remove all embedded data before it even gets to plex. I use EasyTAG and mkv tools to do that depending on the file format.
I typically contribute to tmdb and update where I can to ensure the metadata is as good as it can be.
Best way to achieve that (avoiding mismatches, bad metadata assignments) is to make sure your files are named according to the naming schema used by Plex.
With proper naming, and by disabling the empty trash options I can and do move files around without loosing anything on them.
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