# Handle Chapter Text files like srt

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/handle-chapter-text-files-like-srt/808362>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [August 29, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/handle-chapter-text-files-like-srt/808362 "2022-08-29T17:29:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/handle-chapter-text-files-like-srt/808362/4 "2022-08-29T18:28:34Z")

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We just had this very same discussion some months ago.  
This other suggestion is asking for an option to lookup chapter information from the old chapterdb (discontinued platform) where no chapters are available in a file. So you might want to look into that suggestion and comment/vote there in order to avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes.

> [@Chapters for files without the information](https://forums.plex.tv/t/chapters-for-files-without-the-information/791309):
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> Hi All, I was wondering if there was any chance Plex could come up with a solution to add Chapter info to the meta information within the Plex server rather than just using chapter information contained within the file. My content is made up of a number of different file types and qualities and having the ability to pull chapter information from an online 3rd party source (I think this exists) to allow all of my mixed media types to have chapter info would be amazing. Just a thought for us mo…

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Beyond that… as per Otto’s response:  
Chapter editors are available for all kinds of platforms and media formats. It’s fairly easy to do this with MKVToolNix for MKV files. On macOS I’m regularly using “Subler” to edit MP4/M4V files.

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