How is pattern matching for SEE filenames is supposed to work?

Plex Media Server
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Continuing the discussion from Plex Media Server:

I tried every possible combination I could understand from the support article but nothing works.

How does the .plexmatch is supposed to look for telling Plex, that the files in the season directory have SEE numbering?

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It doesn’t. The statement says you’ll need to use the regular plexmatch hinting approach to tell Plex what show/season/episodes each of those files are because it won’t recognize them based on their file names.

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lol what?

But what does this statement mean then?

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The support article from which you’re quoting describes how to use .plexmatch files to give the scanner hints on how to match certain files.

Initially those files focused on hints for individual files.
With PMS 1.30.0, Plex introduced an option to specify a pattern to specify where in a file name to find information for season/episode etc. – those patterns also support an option to specify see style notations.

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Yes, but how does this work?

The artile doesn’t explain that in detail. I made a .plexmatch with different pattern variations including {see}, but it simply doesn’t work.

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Let’s take the example from the support article.

You’ve got your files organized like this, with 24 episodes of season 1.

TV Shows
  Show Title (2021)
    Season 01
      Show Title 101.mp4
      Show Title 102.mp4
      ...
      Show Title 124.mp4

You’ll place a .plexmatch file in the Season 01 folder. This file should contain the following information (I’ll ignore the comments from the example to make it a bit more lean):

Title: Show Title
Year: 2021
Season: 1
Pattern: Show Title {see}.mp4

Assuming your files are in proper order, you shouldn’t need any of the additional information in the curly brackets.

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Ok, I already tried exactly that, BUT I used an asterisk, like its explained and shown in the article.

But *-{see}.mkv doesn’t work, only the exact filename works. Not quite what I would understand under pattern matching, and the examples also shows different, or I’m still not understanding them.

EDIT: Alright, * only works trailing after the {see} term.

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