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Re:Plex Security Incident by unethical_ban on Monday September 08, 2025 @06:53PM (#45175169)
Soemtimes I have needed to rename files, but to me it is both sensible (how else to recognize a show, maybe a metadata file) and totally worth it.

I don't want to need to have a centralized account to access my media library on my device.

I don't want to have to pay monthly to enable hardware transcoding.

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Re:Plex Security Incident by gchamonlive on Monday September 08, 2025 @07:41PM (#45175568)
I can't because most of my media is in an off-site server and the mount point is readonly
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Re:Plex Security Incident by theshrike79 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:49AM (#45195871)
Then rename them at the off-site server?

There are very specific and common standard on renaming video files to contain "metadata" so that every single tool doesn't have to use ffmpeg to investigate and try to guess the exact movie/tv show from the title.

The Plex naming guidelines are pretty good: https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-...

Some people like to add resolution and audio track information to the file name too.

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