I have a 2 Disc Ghostbusters set that I ripped and both Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2 were matched to the same tile. The file they ripped to were generic names so I changed them to be Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters 2. Plex thinks they are duplicates but that is not the case. Can I add a Ghostbusters 2 entry manually?
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How exactly are those files named/organized?
Movies <- the folder linked to your Plex movie library
Ghostbusters (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984).ext
Ghostbusters 2 (1989)
Ghostbusters 2 (1989).ext
Where .ext is the file extension of your videos (e.g. .mkv).
Should work fine that way and create 2 separate movie items in your library (also if you name the 2nd video Ghostbusters II (1989) instead).
they are all in a single directory.
Are the files named the way @tom80H showed, with the year included?
I just renamed them with the year in it but not the directory structure. will it correct it automatically?
It should. What is the directory name?
they are all in a Movies directory on the Synology. I had no structure before I started to use Plex and just let it ingest it. I started to rip movies again using Win-X and output to the network share.
Should be fine.
Did both movies show up?
They did - thanks everyone for the help.
I started using Plex with over 300 movies ripped and I am not up to over 500.
restructuring the directory structure would take a long time - additionally, my eyes are not what they used to be and finding Movie release Dates on the DVD cases is next to impossible - I could look each up on IMDB or such to get the release date but that just adds to the task…
I have used Win-X and let it default to what it does and I then use Plex to tidy up mismatches – I will certainly look into separating the media from the Plex once I understand what you suggest… time to read the help you linked
one of my DVDs was a TV Miniseries so I added a TV Shows Library and moved the two DVD images to the a folder using the naming conventions I read on the Plex site – maybe I did not understand it because they are not showing up. I pasted image of the location of the files. Is this a permission issue or am I doing it wrong?
With tv episodes, always go for 1 file per episode. Then you can easily name the files in accordance with Plex’ naming schema for tv-shows:
TV Shows <- the folder linked to your tv-show library
Dinotopia
Specials <- alternatively use "Season 00"
Dinotopia - s00e01.ext
Dinotopia - s00e02.ext
Dinotopia - s00e03.ext
Season 01
Dinotopia - s01e01 - Marooned.ext
Dinotopia - s01e02 - Making Good.ext
Dinotopia - s01e03 - Handful of Dust.ext
Dinotopia - s01e04 - Contact.ext
Dinotopia - s01e05 - The Matriarch.ext
Dinotopia - s01e06 - Big Fight.ext
Dinotopia - s01e07 - Night of the Wartosa.ext
Dinotopia - s01e08 - LeSage.ext
Dinotopia - s01e09 - Car Wars.ext
Dinotopia - s01e10 - Lost and Found.ext
Dinotopia - s01e11 - The Cure (1).ext
Dinotopia - s01e12 - The Cure (2).ext
Dinotopia - s01e13 - Crossroads.ext
Where .ext is the file extension (e.g. .mp4); the episode titles after the sXXeYY pattern are optional and will be ignored by Plex.
that was a quick response. I have a 2 Disc Set and each is about 240 minutes long - do I have to rip it by episode or can I just let it stay as 2 discs and use it that way?. I am unsure which files are for which episode
well… that’s the art of ripping your tv-shows 
if you want to keep them as “full show” chunks, your best shot will be to handle those as an “other video” type library.
If you want them to be recognized as a tv-show, you’ll need to split them – or at least you’ll need to know which episodes are covered on which disc. With that you can name the files like this:
TV Shows <- the folder linked to your tv-show library
Dinotopia
Season 00
Dinotopia - s00e01-e03.ext
Season 01
Dinotopia - s01e01-e07.ext
Dinotopia - s01e08-e13.ext
Again… for that to work you still need to know which episodes are on which disc. This kind of multi-episode files will not give you a perfect experience on all clients.
Personally I simply rip my shows in individual files and briefly open them in VLC to see which is which (episodes tend to display an episode title at some point during or after the titles).
I will see what I can do that way
Can “Other Video” folders use the TVDB or IMDB to draw in the other metadata?
It can’t.
How could it anyway if it doesn’t know what it’s looking at
I figured I could Match it manually
I am unsure how to split the file apart - this is what WinX shows and all episodes are in the one large file. The episode information might in in a DVD Menu file but I do not know how to access that.. Perhaps I will have to use a Movie Editor to split it - that will be a project for another rainy day!!
Thank you for all the help -
PS - if I try to edit a Plex tile and get a message that says it cannot save it, why might be the cause and how to correct it?
You could try ripping it with MakeMKV to see if that’ll give you the full breakdown.
Alternatively I suppose the big file might have chapters per episode… I’m not sure if you can split by chapter using WinX – you can always fallback to MKVToolNix for that.
