I’m not super organized and I’m new to Plex. I have a giant USB drive that contains all of my “Video” stuff (a mixture of Movies and TV stuff) I’m trying my best to better organize, categorize, and rename moving forward.
How do you suppose I would categorize and name this DVD I have? If I put it in Movies, it doesn’t show all the episodes. If I put in TV Shows, the folder contents are empty.
I have other titles similar to this where they don’t seem to qualify as a TV Series, but they have more than one title.
Sometimes those kind of DVDs can be tricky… they can contain movies associated to a show which occasionally can be organized as specials of a show, while sometimes they’re actually independent movies.
In your case, you seem to have gotten a DVD of independent episodes of that show (I guess they’re related as in being related to some kind of water rescue )
Plex will ignore files in a tv-show type library that don’t contain the season/episode information. So naming the files like this should do the trick:
TV Shows <- the folder linked to your tv-show library
Fireman Sam (1987)
Season 06
Fireman Sam (1987) - s06e10 - Stranded.ext
Fireman Sam (1987) - s06e14 - Pirates of Pontypandy.ext
Fireman Sam (1987) - s06e18 - Sailor Steele.ext
Fireman Sam (1987) - s06e24 - Norman's Ark.ext
Season 07
Fireman Sam (1987) - s07e15 - The One That Got Away.ext
Fireman Sam (1987) - s07e16 - Dinosaur Hunt.ext
Where .ext is a placeholder for the actual file extensions. The release year is optional but can help with getting better matching results.
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