First time user. How to start organising movies

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Hey guys,

I’ve just transferred all my dads movies to the Plex Media Server.

The file name for each movie is a little odd.

E.g. some have all the actors names after the title.

I’m completely new to all this.

Do I have to go through each individual file and physically rename it?

Or is there a quicker way to match movies?

Apologies for the stupid question.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Generally you should prepare your files to comply with a naming schema Plex can understand. You can do that manually or by using apps like FileBot (though with very crazy file names those apps might have some trouble too).

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200264746-quick-start-step-by-step-guides/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/

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Both of these are free

For TV shows named according to the TVDB

This does both TV and movies

TV show format
Show Name: ${showTitle} (${showYear}) {tvdb-${showTvdb}}
Season: Season ${seasonNr2}
Episode Name: ${showTitle} (${showYear}) s${seasonNr2}e${episodeNr2} ${episode.title}


Movie format
Folder format: ${title} (${year})
File format ${title} (${year}) {imdb-${imdb}}
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Thanks so much for the quick response both of you!

I’ll get to work on this tomorrow.

Have a great evening.

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