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Edit Metadata On A Movie

Provider data is usually good enough, but sometimes you want to change a value: fix a translated title, correct a year, rewrite an overview, or lock a field so a rescrape never touches it. This recipe opens one title and walks through editing it.

Before you start You need at least one title in your library. If your library is empty, run Add your first folder first.

Step 1: Open the title

Open Library and select the poster of the movie you want to edit. The movie's own page opens, with its artwork, details, actions, and files.

Library grid with poster cards.
Library: select a poster to open its page
A movie's page: backdrop, poster, title and year, the Play and Edit buttons, the ⋯ menu, the overview, cast, and the file with its resolution and codecs.
A movie's page

Step 2: Open the editor

Select Edit at the top of the page. The editor opens over the page with the tabs Details, Artwork, Subtitles & trailer, People, Translations, and Files. Details holds the fields this recipe edits: title, year, overview, tagline, runtime, content rating, genres, and the rest. See Pages: Library.

The editor open on the Details tab: fields with their source and lock, and Cancel and Save at the bottom.
Edit › Details

Each field shows where its value came from, such as the provider or an NFO file, and a lock.

Step 3: Edit a field

Select a field and change the value. As soon as something changes:

  1. Unsaved changesThe bar at the bottom says Unsaved changes and Save becomes active. If you try to leave, MetaTana asks first.
  2. Your edit is keptA value you type yourself is kept on every later rescrape: your value wins over the provider's.
  3. Lock it if it must never changeSelect the lock next to the field. A locked field also can't be filled or cleared by a scrape, a refresh, or a bulk edit, and it reads as read-only until you unlock it.
A lock stays until you remove it A locked field stays locked across scrapes, refreshes, and bulk edits until you unlock it. Use it when your value is correct and nothing else should ever change it. See The metadata editor for how edits and locks work together.

Step 4: Save

Select Save (or press Cmd + S, Ctrl + S on Windows and Linux). The change is saved in MetaTana's database right away. The title's NFO is marked out of date, so it shows under Library › Needs attention › NFO out of date until it is written again. In a folder where Write NFO files is Always, saving also rewrites the NFO. Any follow-up work, such as NFO writes or server refreshes, shows up in Activity.

What success looks like

  • The movie's page shows your new value
  • A Saved. toast confirms the edit
  • If you locked the field, its lock shows as closed in the editor

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