It seems that the Plex server doesn’t recognize TV episode files which use “PartN” or “Part.N” in their name. But shouldn’t it be relatively simple to just alias this from “part” to “E0N” or “ENN” for matching purposes? It’s natural for miniseries to use a “part” naming convention.
Just follow the official naming convention and you’re all good. If you’re unsure, check the listing in the TV DB.
Also as far as getting the names right: FileBot is your friend. Most of the time, using a Plex format string, FileBot will take a mini-series/series/one time TV movie and name it so that Plex handles it fine if placed to a Show/Season structure.
Well my feature request is about letting Plex more intelligently do the right thing. If it is a TV library, and the file/folder doesn’t show the expected name, but “part[0-9]” is there, then replace that in the string and use that to match the database. It’s a convenience function.
What I’m getting at is that simply replacing the string “part” with “E” seems to fix the problem (actually “E0” in my case). This seems simple enough for software to do without me getting involved.
So it’s not clear exactly from your example but it appears you’re using “part” to mean “episode”.
Unfortunately “part” is already a very specific thing:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200265006-Naming-Stacked-TV-Show-Episodes
If an video file is literally split into two (not a “two part episode”) then part refers to the two files that make up the one episode and are played back to back without a split, or it even asking you to start the next file.
As Elijah_Baley says you need to be renaming your files to explicitly match the naming conventions that have been well defined for many, MANY years now. They’re unlikely to change any time soon.
