Server Version#: 1.19.5.3021 Is there any way to have files I add to library use the naming convention for TV shows and have the episode name appear when I add a file? I saw the notice in https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265256-naming-home-series-media/ that shows are currently only named Episo…

There is - but the PITA factor is such that’s it’s EASIER to simply edit the item when it’s aboard. In order to make it work - your files must be MP4 files and you must embed the metadata within them so they contain the info - and I’ll tell ya right now it’s easier to edit that in a few seconds whe…

[image] j_hizzal: (ex: Teaching Lesson - S2007E01 - Introduction.mp4) If all your files are already named that way, you can use a tool which scrapes the episode title from the file name and writes it into the mp4 files as a ‘Title’ meta tag. (works only with mp4/m4v files, unfortunately) On…

Sadly these won’t be in TVDB or TMDB. But thank you for the insights. I don’t want to but maybe editing meta data in the long run would be a good thing.

Great insights. Thank you for linking to mp3tag. I’ll take a look at it.

The feature is named “Convert: Filename → Tag” and the format string %dummy% - %dummy% - %title% should work for filenames which look like your above example. [grafik]

Tested this just now with a shared folder to my Linux box. Seems to be working. Takes a few minutes to covert the larger file sizes, but I think that’s a fair trade off.

If you want to do it “right”, you also need to re-“optimize for streaming” these files (usually most of them). Which requires reading and re-writing them in full. Can also be done in mp3tag. (right-click on the file, then “Utils”)

Having Plex use naming convention for Personal Media Shows Agent

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