# Dark Shadows

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/dark-shadows/683744>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-nvidia-shield\
**Created:** [January 28, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dark-shadows/683744 "2021-01-28T02:54:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![myblack2002ws6\_gmail\_com](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@myblack2002ws6\_gmail\_com](https://forums.plex.tv/u/myblack2002ws6_gmail_com)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 2:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dark-shadows/683744/1 "2021-01-28T02:54:41Z")

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Anybody ever put the complete Dark Shadows series on their server and get it to work correctly in Plex?

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**Author:** ![pandas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pandas/32/191216_2.png) [@pandas](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pandas)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 4:00am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dark-shadows/683744/2 "2021-01-28T04:00:20Z")

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You betcha. All 1225.

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**Author:** ![pandas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pandas/32/191216_2.png) [@pandas](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pandas)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dark-shadows/683744/4 "2021-01-28T04:43:37Z")

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[dark\_shadows\_mapping.txt.zip](https://forums.plex.tv/uploads/short-url/nLEqsiH9HwBYV3n9UzfXSXl7ht0.zip) (13.7 KB)

Attached is a list of file and directory names in the 12 seasons. The file naming scheme gives you the key to how to map chunks off the discs to episode files. Getting this together was the hard part. The rest is relatively easy. Here’s what you do.

1\> Rip all the disks from the Complete Original Series

> **[Amazon.com: Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series (Deluxe Edition):...](https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Shadows-Complete-Original-Deluxe/dp/B007PZ6SYK/)**
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> Amazon.com: Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series (Deluxe Edition): Jonathan Frid, Lara Parker, Kathryn Leigh Scott: Movies & TV

2\> All episodes are contained in title 0. Break out each title 0 from each disk into it’s individual chapters. This can be done with an ffmpeg one liner. Each chapter becomes an episode file.

3\> Now that you have the disc number / chapter number of the episode, use the attached file list as a lookup table to obtain the filename. Once all the files are named they are importable into plex.

**File Naming Scheme Explanation**

Example file name:

Dark Shadows - s01e001 - ep0001\_disk001\_title00\_chap01\_19660627.mp4

Dark Shadows : series name  
s01e001 : season / episode numbers in standard plex format  
ep001 : Episode number (absolute number available in tvdb)  
disk001 : disk number from set (used in lookup)  
title00 : title number from rip (will all be 00)  
chap01 : Chapter number inside title 00 (used in lookup)  
19660627 : Air date. Not used but good for reference.

Use the disk number and chapter number of the of the episode file to lookup the final filename.

When all files are renamed, structure them in standard plex naming format, ie. Series Name/Season/Episode and import it into plex, which will match all episodes nicely.

Good Luck!

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dark-shadows/683744/5 "2021-04-28T04:43:43Z")

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