Plex Documentation → Your Media
→ Naming & Organizing Your TV Show Files
→ Naming & Organizing Your Movie Files
Why is some of my content not found?
Per Plex docs, “The most important bit in the file name is the appropriate season and episode number notation s02e17, which in this example means Season 2 Episode 17 It does not matter if you use dashes, dots, or just spaces.”
You need to follow Plex naming and organization requirements. Otherwise, Plex may not correctly recognize your media files.
After renaming/reorganizing the entire show, Plex Dance the show. That removes any incorrect information from the Plex database.
Example
/volume1/Media/TV Shows <-- folder added to tv show library
/Cheers (1982) <-- show name (intro year)
/Season 01 <-- "Season" in English, two digits for number
/Cheers (1982) s01e01 Give Me a Ring Sometime.mkv <-- sXXeYY notation
/Season 02
/Cheers (1982) s02e01 Power Play.mkv <-- episode name optional
Here’s a shortlist of tools that can help with renaming. The free version of Tiny Media Manager works for most people.
Many people use Filebot. It is quite powerful and can rename an entire library in minutes.
Tiny Media Manager is also very useful, and free.
Example TMM Renamer Patterns:
- Show Name:
${showTitle} (${showYear}) - Season:
Season ${seasonNr2} - Episode Name:
${showTitle} (${showYear}) s${seasonNr2}e${episodeNr2} ${episode.title} - Movie Name:
${title} (${year}) {imdb-${imdb}}
PowerRenamer in Microsoft Power Tools is helpful for simple renaming with pattern matches or regular expressions. It makes quick work of tasks such as adding a year to file names, removing undesirable text from multiple files, etc
