How can I prevent Sonarr from changing a specific property of an mp4 when applying metadata.
In my MP4s, Sonarr is filling the property of Title with either the post-processed naming scheme of the file or the downloaded file name. That does not work well with Plex. It doesn’t seem to bother Mediabrowser and XMBC.
Example:
Title: The Blacklist - S01E08 - General Ludd
Plex would grab the metadata of the file but label it as The Blacklist - S01E08 - General Ludd instead of General Ludd
Sonarr doesn’t alter the properties of the file, just filename, can you elaborate on the issue?
What exactly is being altered?
Sure. Maybe I misunderstood the whole concept so I will clarify. I have nzbget transcoding my video files from mkv to mp4. When the file is left as mkv plex has no issue display the right info. When the file is converted Plex pulls the right thetvdb info for the video but display the file embedded metadata instead. When I compare a file i manually converted with one that was converted by nzbget and post-processed by sonarr, the title is the only field that isn’t embedded in both.
Just to give you an update on the situation. Plex has multiple scanners and one of them is for embedded metadata. That scanner if set as primary would always override plex thetvdb data. I was advise to disable it and that resolved my problem. But I never had to do that before when I used to manually convert files. I thought it was sonarr job to apply the metadata to the file. I could be wrong. I just started using sonarr 3 days ago. Still learning.
Sonarr just moves the files from the download folder to the series folder, it doesn’t set any information on the files, optionally Sonarrr can create separate metadata files, but those aren’t required (and still wouldn’t alter the video file).
Breezy,
You are not alone… I actually wish there was a way to have my script, or couchpotato or (not so much an issue with) Sonarr completely remove metadata properties. Even better would be if Plex just wouldn’t pay attention to the embedded metadata at all. The only positive I have to say about having the original file name embedded is when I’m looking for specific subtitles. I would like to note that I also automagically transcode to MP4 so maybe it’s something in the process; either way, I’ve been looking for a work around because I do store artwork, trailers, etc. locally for Kodi and I don’t want to disable the local metadata if I can help it.
@imadunatic Since I couldn’t find a way to do anything about it i decided to just disable the Local Media Assets in Plex. I know something somewhere is writing that information to the file. Just don’t know which app. If you download an mkv file these properties are disabled therefore they aren’t being overriden. I am guessing your are in though spot since in your case you can’t disable the embedded agent for Plex. Sorry to hear dude. Maybe if you can think of something you can ask them to implement it. Something like allow you to select which property the agent can can read from the embedded metadata while ignoring others.