# Auto create chapters if missing **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [January 31, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auto-create-chapters-if-missing/177865 "2017-01-31T00:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![reven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/87869e/32.png) [@reven](https://forums.plex.tv/u/reven)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auto-create-chapters-if-missing/177865/1 "2017-01-31T00:09:09Z")
currently it can be real slow to fast forward/rewind on some clients but the chapters make this a lot quicker. which is fine for files with chapters, but often they dont. can an option be added to auto generate chapters (user defined interval, suggestion default 5mins) to ease this? ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auto-create-chapters-if-missing/177865/2 "2022-08-29T18:23:47Z")
2022 clean-up: duplicate > [@Chapters for files without the information](https://forums.plex.tv/t/chapters-for-files-without-the-information/791309): > > Hi All, I was wondering if there was any chance Plex could come up with a solution to add Chapter info to the meta information within the Plex server rather than just using chapter information contained within the file. My content is made up of a number of different file types and qualities and having the ability to pull chapter information from an online 3rd party source (I think this exists) to allow all of my mixed media types to have chapter info would be amazing. Just a thought for us mo…