I’m Almost done Ripping my Blue ray Star Trek TOS collection. and I’m having an Issue getting plex to figure out What to do with 3 versions of the Series Pilot show The Cage. I’ve looked here but that didn’t seem to have any info helpful to my situation https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-…

In my experience, make the specials folder called whatever you want. I split up my specials into folders based on the type (anime “Movies” of an anime shows I don’t like to have near "OVA"s, etc), and Plex picks it up anyway. As long as the episode itself uses the correct “S00Exx” format in its na…

I tried the specials directory inside my ‘Star Trek (1966)’ directory and renamed some of the video clips to match the titles on the movie database site Jaysplex posted. I changed the episode ordering to the movie database (aired). That did not exactly work like I expected at all. it added the sp…

Pro-tip, Filbot is amazing for when you have a lot of episodes to name

You mean this? https://www.filebot.net/ Didn’t know that even existed but man I’ll have to give that a Whirl.

Yes, that. Filebot solves almost every naming issue you can find in Plex, since it draws its references from basically the same areas Plex does. If you dig deep enough into it, you can change how it names things to match your preferred naming convention. I prefer “S01E01” over the default “1x01.” I…

Ok I think some of my issue could be the file names for the special content I name my standard shows like “Star Trek S1E06 Mudd’s Women.mkv” So, should I name the special content like the is for example: “Star Trek S00E09 Life Beyond Trek - William Shatner.mkv” ? I’m putting getting 9 from TMDB…

If you’re going to manually do it, I would suggest using the numbers found on the TVDB. https://thetvdb.com/series/star-trek/seasons/official/0 If what you’ve got isn’t listed here, Plex won’t match it to anything. For those cases, I manually number them above something like 100 and name them. Tha…

Also, Filebot gives you a quality match assessment, if the match is white you got it perfect. I also use the S01E01 over 1x, worth changing the default. After that Plex has always been able to curate the episode for me with no issues.

[image] AmazingRando24: If what you’ve got isn’t listed here, Plex won’t match it to anything. For those cases, I manually number them above something like 100 and name them. That works well enough. I also this page has a lot of the stuff i’ve ripped from my DVDs [image] Specials …

[image] mike4939: I name my standard shows like “Star Trek S1E06 Mudd’s Women.mkv” So, should I name the special content like the is for example: “Star Trek S00E09 Life Beyond Trek - William Shatner.mkv” ? I’m putting getting 9 from TMDB as the episode number. That name style should work. …

How Do I name and Organize Pilot episodes

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skwor01 September 26, 2022, 4:07pm 18

LOL omg, I do the same, I have a staging folder and once Filebot has everything named per convention and then matched with metadata I move it to the live Plex folder. Never have to do the Plex dance then. Have always gotten good matches that way in Plex.

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How Do I name and Organize Pilot episodes

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