Automatically add movies with a certain word in the file name to a collection?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Is there a way – plugin or otherwise – to get Plex to automatically add movies with a certain word in the file name to a user-specified collection? In my case, I want all movies with “commentary” in the file name to be added to my “commentary tracks” collection. As it stands now, I’m having to do this manually every time I add movies, but it’s time-consuming and I’m sure I’ll miss some eventually. I see in the documentation it’s possible for Plex to auto-add movies to collections, but I don’t see any instructions for how to set criteria for that. Am I missing something?

Server Version#: 1.20.1.3252
Player Version#: 4.30.2 (I think… not quite sure I am looking in the right place for this information)

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This is not possible.
The only way in Plex to automatically add a file into a collection is, to have both below conditions fulfilled:

  1. the file uses the MP4 / M4V container format
  2. the file has an embedded meta tag ‘Album’ which is populated with the desired collection name
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Well, if the file name or path is available via the metadata or the media python object (which I do not know) then it would be very easy to code - and I’d be willing to do it.

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