Simply go to your relevant content folder, search for *. The good news is, much of this can be done from within Windows itself (I imagine there's a similar method for Linux or OSX, but I don't have a Linux machine at the moment, and will likely never have a Mac). You could also edit it to actually be correct, but if that's your bag, you probably already have the infrastructure in place to do that, and this post isn't intended for you.Īnyway, I decided to put everything I've learned in one place, as there doesn't seem to be anything like this anywhere else on the internet, and this seemed as good a place as any. The obvious solution is to remove the metadata that causes this from the files. As I'm sure many of you know, this means that you're likely to end up with movies being displayed as The.x264.IHateYourOrganisationHaHa. At least, you do according to Plex, and from my brief and non-exhaustive testing, this seems to be the case. This is for one specific reason - in order to have external subtitles properly recognised in Plex, you have to have the Local Media Assets agent not only on, but at the top of the list. I've spent a fair bit of time over the past week trying to fix my content's metadata (not the Plex metadata, the actual files' metadata) so that it doesn't screw with Plex.

Bulk video metadata editor