I think if you sent the files to me it would show my details there, not yours.

If you're on Windows 7 you could also try and use some PowerShell trickery to remove the info.ĮDIT: I'm not 100% sure if the 'Date Created' 'Date Modified' 'Owner' and 'Computer' are transferred, that is, I think it is the date/time, owner of the file and computer that is transferred to. You can choose what to remove, either some or all of the properties. TL:DR All I want to do is remove any title, so VLC tells me the show title & episode number, as listed in the filename - not who helpfully ripped it so I didnt have to rip all my. This is for one specific reason - in order to have external subtitles properly recognised in Plex, you have to have the Local Media. So I run my ffmpeg command above to clean the metadata then I can use another tool to pull in the correct (curated) metadata from say thetvdb.I'm not sure how to remove subfolders worth of information, but you can select all the files in a folder, or a single folder, and if you right click and choose 'properties' on the file, then choose the 'details' tab there is an option to 'Remove Properties and Personal Information'. Prompted by the answer to Any way to edit metadata of MKV files (without re-encoding) it appears I should be able to do this with mkvpropedit, part of MKVToolNix. Ive spent a fair bit of time over the past week trying to fix my contents metadata (not the Plex metadata, the actual files metadata) so that it doesnt screw with Plex. Right-click one of them and choose Properties. After I've renamed the file into my prefered format Name - Season - EpisodeNN - title format, I'd like the metadata to be cleaned to be the same as the renamed title and not 'Name - Season - EpisodeNN - title - Pa55ed thru XXXHub. In Windows Explorer select all the video files you want to modify (you may want to do it in a few sets if youre dealing with 1000s of files). Sometimes the tool can only obtain an episode by searching the darker bits of the internet and then often the file has passed through multiple sites and the meta-data in the file has become mangled or links to porn sites added. I get my content from a variety of places, mostly usenet using SIckchill / Sabnzb that usually do a good job of sanitising filenames. I mostly play media via Kodi/Elec or VLC or whatever media player is available. If you are using VLC, then you might find a setting for that too. >:?: Why are removing embedded media titles? What software are you using? If you are using Plex, then you can just Disable Local Media Assets to make Plex not display the embedded title.

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