I’ve followed all the instructions for naming multi-part movies. The player seems to recognize they have multiple disks (displays blue icons with the number ‘2’), but I can only play the first disc. I’m on the latest client and server (just upgraded). Any ideas?
a blue number 2 means it thinks you have two copies of the same thing.
for things that need to be separate like harry potter deathly hollows part 1 and part 2 which are actually two separate movies use roman numerals
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I.mkv
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II.mkv
If you want to combine so they play back to back as if a single file, names need to be exactly the same except the “part X” using regular numbers
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.mkv
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.mkv
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In addition, if using the MKV container, you can join them into one file using MKVToolNix.
Changing the names as you stated didn’t fix the problem. It still thinks I have 2 copies. I tried splitting them apart, unmatching, and then matching again but no luck. The file names are currently:
The Fellowship Of The Ring Part 1.mkv
The Fellowship Of The Ring Part 2.mkv
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I’m a bit confuse here cause I always thought multi-parts end in “- partX” (no space) and this is what is explained in the FAQ.
Movies in Multiple Parts
Movies that are split into several parts (e.g. CD-1, CD-2), can be played back as a single item if named correctly. The split parts must be nested inside their own folder, named as usual for the movie. Name the files as follows:
/Movies/MovieName (release year)/MovieName (release year) – Split_Name.ext
Where Split_Name is:
cdX
discX
diskX
dvdX
partX
ptX
…X is the part number (cd1, cd2, etc.), and ext is the file extension.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200264966-naming-multi-file-movies/
So… IS part1 the same as part 1 in the eyes of PLEX?
That’s the format I originally had, which resulted in the system thinking I had 2 copies of the movie. I changed the format following the suggestion above, but no luck. Frustrating to have multiple solutions that don’t seem to work.
Should work either way. I duplicated this 7 minute file and named like so and you can see it is shown as one 14 minute movie.
Movies/
The Fellowship Of The Ring/
The Fellowship Of The Ring Part 1.mkv
The Fellowship Of The Ring Part 2.mkv
@ChromeSurfer Do you have them in a The Fellowship Of The Ring folder?
WOW! Are you kidding. That’s not even the movies name… I guess this is an alias for the original title
Edit Sorry I read that wrong.
The are not a bunch of movies called “the fellow ship of the ring” in the title. the agents can usually figure it out. That is why there is a percentage when you do a fix match. so it can pick the best/most likely one.
but i was trying to show part 1 part 2 works fine to treat as a single file
Lol… It’s like the movie
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Theres a few ways you could name this and PLEX will match it correctly.
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yes, they are both in a directory named the same
You may need to do a Plex Dance.
i give up gonna try to merge them ;]
Sadly only plex can do that.
I used MKVToolnixGUI recommended by @FordGuy61. That seemed to work, although it’s having problems with one of my multi-sets, I successfully merged almost everything I have.
Yes, yes… Outside of PLEX. I see…
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