Handling of one movie with different versions

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.29.1.6316
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Good morning.

Can anyone help me further regarding the organization of different film editions? Given is a movie in two different versions. However, the Plex client does not provide me with a way to select the version by name. When I select “Play Version” I just get a dialog that lets me choose between “5.2 Mbps, 1080p” and “5.1 Mbps, 1080p” which is not very helpful.

What I tried so far.

Both versions ins same folder

/moive/movie-title (year)
    movie-title (year) edition a.mkv
    movie-title (year) edition b.mkv

This option represents as one movie in Plex and I can choose between the two versions (“5.2 Mbps, 1080p” and “5.1 Mbps, 1080p”). So it’s luck to hit the right version.

One folder per edition

/moive/movie-title (year) edition a
    movie-title (year) edition a.mkv

/moive/movie-title (year) edition b
    movie-title (year) edition b.mkv

This options represents as two movies in Plex, so that I can specify the respective edition myself in the metadata via “Edition” on both. However, I do not like the representation of one movie as two movies, so I merged them. After I merged the two movies, the edition of one movie overwrites the edition of the other. After that I have one movie in Plex again (which is good), but I have the problem again with the selection of the respective version (“5.2 Mbps, 1080p” and “5.1 Mbps, 1080p”).

What I would have expected
Emby is pretty straight forward with that.

/moive/movie-title (year)
    movie-title (year) edition a.mkv
    movie-title (year) edition b.mkv

This simply represents as one movie in the library with a dropdown-box for the different versions.

Question
Am I holding it wrong or is Plex simply not capable to do that?

Happy to receive some feedback.

Thanks.

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See the file naming syntax here for editions: https://support.plex.tv/articles/multiple-editions/

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Thanks for the feedback.
Looks like I got the documentation all wrong. I understood {edition-Director's Cut} like a “Hey, here comes the name of the version” and not that it actually has to be written exactly like that.
In fact, I think it’s a bit of a shame that Plex requires such a peculiar spelling, as it completly different to Emby. So it looks like I’ll have to slowly decide whether it stays Plex or becomes Emby then.

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You also have the option of just manually editing it inside the web app.

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