In the below screenshot you can see that plex only identified one of my movie files correctly, while it renamed all of the others with the unexpected title names, and used generic thumbnails instead of downloading the movie posters.

Look ugly- it also interfered with Plex's ability toĭownload relevant data for most of the films, particularly the movie In most cases, Plex's renaming behavior didn't just cause the titles to These changes were confounding, because I followed Plex's instructions for naming and organizing movie files, but the Plex Media Server was clearly ignoring my effort and replacing my tidy titles with. For example, Plex renamed 'The Sinister Saga of Making the Stunt Man (2000)' to 'SINISTER_SAGA.Title1' and renamed 'Inspector Morse: Cherubim and Seraphim (1992)' to 'DLT16013.Title2'. Only something annoying kept happening to my uploaded movies as soon as the Plex Media Server added them to my Plex library: Instead of using the nicely-formatted, correct titles that I assigned each of my movie files before copying them to the NAS, Plex consistently replaced their entries in the library with ugly and sometimes meaningless titles instead. It seemed like the perfect solution: All I had to do was copy my properly named and organized movie files to the NAS and Plex would serve them up to the Roku devices in my home.

I first discovered Plex Media Server when looking for a way to stream backed-up copies of my DVD collection from my Synology Disk Station Network Attached Storage (NAS) device.

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