File Naming changes

General Discussions
1

So I used to append my 4K HDR files with -4k-hdr. But now all of a sudden those aren’t being recognized. I know there was a recent change with multi-episode files. So did the flag nomenclature change? How exactly do I differentiate my 4k HDR files from 1080 files?

2

S01E01-4 is now a recognized multi episode file format. In that example it would be one file for episodes 1, 2, 3, and 4

Assuming you have named a full file like this Blindspot (2015) S01E01-4k-hdr.mkv that is getting picked up like above, you can either

  1. Put extra info in brackets Blindspot (2015) S01E01 [4k-hdr].mkv
  2. remove the dash immediately after the episode number, put a space there or use some other punctuation after the real episode number. Blindspot (2015) S01E01 4k-hdr.mkv Blindspot (2015) S01E01 -4k-hdr.mkv Blindspot (2015) S01E01.4k-hdr.mkv

if it was not appended directly after the SXXEXX then would need a specific example.

3

OK thanks. I’m using s01e01_[4k_hdr] and that seems to work fine.

4

Hey, if the officially supported format for episode numbers is to include a leading zero, then why does this new extended “multi-episode” format accept single digits as well? The OP’s issue shouldn’t have happened, since “01-4” shouldn’t be valid since Plex should have expected “01-04”.

5

Though it is for sure preferred that one uses leading zeros it has never been a hard requirement afaik. The real issue here was not adding any space after the season episode notation so that it though the 4 in 4k was part of that.

6

Yeah, this is what it said in the logs too.

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7

I’ll pass it along to metadata team though I think you shoud still be putting the additional info in brackets.

8

Oh I am. I made the change in my naming already. I was just illustrating what you said to the other commentor.

9

I didn’t mean to hijack the thread. I’d had to change my episode numbering for one show because I relied on plex NOT accepting a number after a dash as an episode range. So that this behavior coming about despite “best practice” numbering not accepting this format just seemed to me to be an inconsistency.

Ce la vie. It’s an interesting issue though, and I am glad it came up (and been resolved) as I like to know how Plex works.