I’ve my own naming convention, very consistent, and have had it for years.
There’s no way I can change it.
What are my options to tell Plex what my naming convention is?
I’m ready to code, but surely Plex must offer a way to adapt to an existing library.
Filebot is your best solution
Sorry, it’s not a solution.
I would use a script if I needed to change my naming convention.
I need to be able to use my library with other applications as well.
There must be a way to create an adapter in Plex, that’s a very common requirement. I’d be surprised if they didn’t allow user to create their own naming convention.
That ain’t going to happen. Plex’s naming convention(s) are set and they will not change for one user and they will not provide a way to override those conventions.
The best you can do is use a “Other videos” type of library and then browse by folders.
Plex is not very flexible in their naming.
If you are ready to code, you’ll have to write your own scanner/agent.
Other ppl have done it already, maybe you can find something among the existing projects which fits your use case.
That being said – Plex’s naming schema is one of the best supported and unambiguous ones.
If you stick to very strictly, you will probably have no issues with other media libraries/players as well.
Do you mind telling us your naming convention and what the issues are with standard Plex scanner, as all I get is that you have your own convention you will not change, not telling us what it is nor what issues you have or if you even tried adding anything in Plex… There is documented naming convention which you don’t mention so looks like you didn’t document anything you tried…
Test the Absolute Series Scanner, I wrote it to be the most permissive amongst Plex scanners, support season and absolute numbering as well as transparent folders(ark xxx, saga xxz) and grouping folders.
Thank you very much for these links, these are what I needed.
It’s strange that there isn’t an official documentation easily available on how to code your own scanner/agent. Or at least I couldn’t find one and most related forum posts seem to indicate that there not one clearly identified.
Thanks for caring.
I didn’t realize I could hope for an existing scanner/agent that could cope with my convention.
My naming convention dates back to many years ago, and is based on director as first class citizen. I have very few TV series/shows.
The rational was that in worst case scenario, the file system should contain enough info to let me navigate manually or search through file names.
Movie files are stored in a hierarchy of
country/director (last name, first name, including chinese and japanese characters) - date of birth - (date of death)/year - director name last, first - title in original language (english title)/
Then file naming goes:
year - director name last, first - title in original language (english title) - [format].mkv/m4v
e.g.
2016 - Locy, Joshua - Hunter Gatherer [1080p].mkv
Your README.md is extremely detailed but I doubt AbsoluteSeriesScanner will help for my case.
Good exemple for me though. But your 1040lines AbsoluteSeriesScanner.py seems to be very hard to digest! Hope it’s possible to split the scanner in multiple files before installing in Plex.
All in all makes me want to wade into Anime ! I’m sure you have an amazing collection. Any tips on where to start?
Additionally, being a big fan of Japanese cinema, I’ve always struggled on how to structure file name so that it contains original japanese script for director and title, along with transliteration AND translation.
Is Plex able to support that.
More generally is Plex using any established format that can be read by other apps for metadata?
What about this Dublin Core format? Seems very academic but apparently that’s the closest to anything people can agree on.
No software with metadata agents (Plex, Xbmc/emby, xxx) will support your naming convention, yet all will support producer fields populated from themoviedb…
My agent is for series or movies in series libraries
“Title (year) [tags].ext” is my recommendation for movies to be compliment with everything.
You can do your own movie scanner
My totally impopular Lambda agent stores using xbmc format nfo files (xml).
You want to use a standard for metadata but unwilling to do it for file naming…
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200381023-naming-movie-files/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200381043-multi-version-movies/
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