What about Filebot? Can it and does it read tag data in order to name video files? How do they deal with a video file that contains everything needed in its embedded tags and that will never be found in any on-line media database? Plex appears to simply ignore it (a BIG problem), what does Filebot do? How does it name the file? How can it, unless it reads the embedded tags? I'm disappointed I have to ask about any of this since the embedded tag data ought to be the FIRST port of call for both Plex and Filebot to do their stuff, but Plex seems remarkably dumb in this regard.
This is my big problem with Plex (and maybe Filebot too, hence the questions).
Anyway, my question about Filebot (and relevant to whether or not it is worth buying) is whether it can use embedded tags in video files that already contain all the required data rather than chasing around the 'Net to find what is already in the files' tags, OR, completely failing to find anything as it's not a commercially available video and hence will NEVER be found, yet the file's embedded tags already contain ALL the data. Although iTunes can allow the files to be anywhere, it becomes harder to maintain. My problem is that iTunes creates one folder/file naming structure and Plex requires something different. Except I am coming to realise that Plex ignores any correct tagging of video files and uses only folder and file naming which is unbelievably stupid, but not relevant here. It does a very good job of this and the media should then be sharable with any other system as every file contains all the identifying metadata. I'm having trouble with this as iTunes maintains the files' tags in sync with its own database and creates logical and appropriate folder and file names for all the media. I'm trying to share media between an existing iTunes system and Plex that I want to be able to use.
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