How best to deal with two "multi-part" movies?

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The ‘tag’ is part1 or part2.
the hyphen is the generic separator between sections of a file name.
if you butt the hyphen up against the ‘tag’ - bad things will likely happen… like Plex getting confused thinking -part1 is the wrong tag for a movie extra - or something.

If:

Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith (2008).xxx

is a single movie file, listed once at TMDB and you just happen to have two parts of that listing the name is:

Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith (2008) - part1.xxx
Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith (2008) - part2.xxx

You will NOT get a Blue 2 because it’s just a movie in two parts - part one plays, then part two plays (if your client supports that action). There will be nothing to split:


(named as shown above)

If you have two ‘Versions’ of the same TMDB listing, then you would name them:

Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith (2008) [New Jersey].xxx
Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith (2008) [The Hanoi Hilton].xxx <— or whatever
(Note: whatever is in a [Bracket] is ignored by Plex, but windows isn’t confused and Plex will see them as two ‘Versions’ of the same movie)

Resulting in:

From here you can Split the Merged items and assign different posters with edited descriptions if you want to. They will at that point be two separate items - but… and it’s a big nasty butt… when you play one of them Plex will think you’re playing both of them. Nice, eh?

You combat that situation by becoming a contributing member at TMDB and creating a second listing for your alternate ‘Version’.

Easy…

lol

Note 2:

Since that item has already been matched (a couple of times) and you’ve been fiddling around with it while it’s been in the library you’d better shine up those Patent Leather Dancing Shoes and prepare for…:

The Plex Dance®:

  1. remove show/movie from library
  2. update library
  3. empty trash
  4. clean bundles
    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles
  5. bring names and structures into compliance/ or the ultimate bundle reboot operation
  6. replace corrected show/movie into library
  7. update library

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.

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