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I have folders of lectures and each folder has 24 lectures in order. If I add them directly to plex, they don’t show up in order (they aren’t TV shows or movies) and don’t come with any metadata.
In PC, if I am playing them, I can sort by folder and play them in order but on TV, streaming sticks, Xbox, the sort by folder option isn’t there. Am I out of luck?
Name and structure them like TV Shows and put them in a TV Show Library:
A TV Show Library/
......Lecture/
.......Season 01/
........Lecture - S01E01 - whatever.xxx
and so on
Fix Match
Search Options
Agent drop down/Personal Media
Now Plex won’t try to match it and you can hand edit a nice TV Show Style presentation.
Can Lecture be replaced by name of the course?
You can call it anything you want.
A TV Show Library/
......Buck Nekked Lecturefest 2020/
.........Season 01/
...........Buck Nekked Lecturefest 2020 - S01E01 - Meeting The Group.xxx
...........Buck Nekked Lecturefest 2020 - S01E02 - Introducing Your Bits.xxx
...........Buck Nekked Lecturefest 2020 - S01E03 - Exploring the Possibilties.xxx
Invent something you can be proud of…lol
Uh, can I get a copy of that?
This is the one you want:
A TV Show Library/
....The Nekked Beverly Hillbillies/
.....Season 01/
...........The Nekked Beverly Hillbillies - S01E01 - JEEEEEEEEEEEED.xxx
...........The Nekked Beverly Hillbillies - S01E02 - Granny Goes To Town.xxx
and so on...
I each file as you mentioned and they are showing up in order. The show and season name is the lecture name but inside the season it’s showing episode 1, episode2 etc. It’s not showing the name of the lecture file - episode number.
It won’t.
Until you edit it.
You have to edit the episode description anyway.
You’re right there.
Name it.
Oh, you mean editing the title of each episode in PLEX? I thought editing the name of the file in the folder in the given format would name the episode as well.
The ‘Magic’ of Plex leaps off the cliff to it’s death the moment you stop matching and getting all that nice data from the online database.
Now you see everything that comes in automatically - doesn’t - and that’s now your job.
You didn’t think this was going to be easy - did you?
(that’s why we make as interesting as we can)
Once you do a few you’ll have your chops - it’ll come easier and you’ll see things to change to make a nicer presentation.
Yeah, that’s gonna be a massive project with 16 thousand files to edit. Oh well thanks though.
That’ll take you a while - to name 16K files, before you edit them.
There may be a way to get the episode name embedded, but the files will need to be MP4s and you’ll have to embed the data - might as well edit them, eh?
Unless someone knows something I don’t - and we may not have ‘the perfect’ solution yet. Unmark it solved and let’s let it age for a few days.
Also:
You can, through manual intervention, sink those episode names into the file.
PITA?
You Betcha.
use a good file re-namer
If those files are already in the mp4 format, and their file names are already containing the title, this can be quite painless with software like e.g. mp3tag:
@JuiceWSA are you peddling you home video’s again…
my favorite
nope. nope. nope.nope.
Ive used it but find it a little overwhelming,
the easiest I’ve found is Ant Renamer…
Shouldn’t the Local Media Agent use the name of the file as the name of the episode? Does it not work that way anymore?
If it ever did - it doesn’t now.
An embedded episode name in an MP4/M4V is currently the only way as Otto has shown:
