About movie names and library

General Discussions
1

Hi all, I have 2 questions on movie names

  1. I have found and read with interest the below article:
    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200381023-Naming-Movie-files

Thanks, but I really don’t want to rename my media (for different reasons).
I currently follow a different naming convention for folders e.g.

English name (optional original name) [year]

Feeding my videos to the PLEX library, they are automatically imported as (literally):

English name optional original name

I would expect this to be handled by a glorified regular expression within the code. Can anybody help me to follow my stubborn approach in understanding where to look if I was to modify this behaviour so that Plex behaves the way I want rather than all the way around? Perhaps of interest for other users too? A possible plug-in idea?

  1. I have .nfo files in the same folder where the media is stored.

    root@nas:/mnt/movies/Avatar [2009]# cat Avatar.ECE.2009.720p.BrRip.nfo
    [InternetShortcut]
    URL=http://imdb.com/title/tt0499549

I have read somewhere that Plex uses these .nfo files but it appears like it doesn’t in my case. Is this a default behavior or something that needs to be enabled?

Thanks
:slight_smile:

3

To make sure enclose the original name in [brackets]:
English Name (YEAR) [Original Name].xxx

Plex absolutely ignores all that is inside brackets - and the (YEAR) being in there definitely makes the file name invalid.

4

thanks both but as you can read from my OP I’m not willing to rename my media.
I’m looking to have PLEX learning and understanding me and not all the way around.

Can the .nfo file as per my point 2) do any good?

Thanks

5

There are some community created agents that support NFO files, you could try one of those and see if they work for you. You’ll need to ensure that your NFO files contain all the data those agents require, not simply a pointer to the IMDB entry.

6

I don’t know how well PMS uses the nfo file with the standard agents, but you may have the format wrong for the NFO. Try something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <movie>
	  <title>English name</title>
      <originaltitle>optional original name</originaltitle>
	  <year>XXXX</year>
	  <id>ttXXXXXXX</id>
  </movie>
http://www.imdb.com/title/ttXXXXXXX/

I have not seen the “url=” on an .nfo file, but it may be valid. If so try:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <movie>
    <title>English name</title>
    <originaltitle>optional original name</originaltitle>
    <year>XXXX</year>
    <id>ttXXXXXXX</id>
  </movie>
  url=http://www.imdb.com/title/ttXXXXXXX/

You could probably leave out everything between the <movie> and </movie> tags. I don’t think the standard agents read that information anyway.

If your stubborn approach (as you called it) would allow a slight modification of the naming structure to change the square brackets around the year to standard ones, and put the optional title inside of square brackets, you may have better luck. Plex ignores everything in square brackets. Putting the year inside square brackets forces Plex to make a guess on that information so your chances of a match are less.

English name [optional original name] (year)