# How to name Extended Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\ **Created:** [February 14, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424 "2021-02-14T12:49:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![simard57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@simard57](https://forums.plex.tv/u/simard57)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/1 "2021-02-14T12:49:50Z")
I searched the Forum but did not find an entry that matched (maybe my search skills are not so strong). I am ripping my entire DVD Library and found movies that I bought more than once however I also found movies that were Special Editions/Extended Editions/Director Cuts. What is the best practice for naming and matching with the various Movie Database. They currently are treated as Duplicates in the Plex Schema - perhaps that is the correct thing but I do not see how to choose the version I wish to play. How are duplicates managed and how are separate versions of the same move managed? ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/2 "2021-02-14T13:14:49Z")
Plex currently doesn’t support different editions/cuts of the same movie. Plex will treat those as different quality-versions of the same video. Your best shot (as-of-today) is to manually split the movies … you can then assign separate posters and some suffix to the name to distinguish the versions. [https://support.plex.tv/articles/201018248-merge-or-split-items/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201018248-merge-or-split-items/) # Alternatively you can move those alternate versions / edition in a separate library. # There’s a long-running feature suggestion to add support for different editions/cuts to the Plex library management. > [@\[Implemented\] - Multiple Cuts Of Movie](https://forums.plex.tv/t/multiple-cuts-of-movie/20550): > > Expanding the current SD/HD version functionalityW00t first thread in here! I'll copy/paste from a thread elsewhere previously :). What would be great is if Plex lists a movie once, but when you select it it then comes up with all the multiple different cuts that you've got in your PMS. ---
**Author:** ![simard57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@simard57](https://forums.plex.tv/u/simard57)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/3 "2021-02-14T13:28:59Z")
> [@simard57](#): > > They currently are treated as Duplicates in the Plex Schema - perhaps that is the correct thing but I do not see how to choose the version I wish to play. How are duplicates managed and how are separate versions of the same move managed? Thank you for the recommendation - I will consider it. Is there a way to choose which version in the Duplicate is played through the App or is that there for the user to remove duplicates? I suppose I am wonder what the true purpose of Duplicates is! ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/4 "2021-02-14T13:35:27Z")
There’s a `Play version` action if a movie has multiple files linked to it. The dialog will however only show a small set of information – mostly about the video quality (resolution and bitrate). There’s also a feature suggestion to expand that… but currently it won’t be sufficient to pick between different editions/cuts (unless your users check out the technical details of each file beforehand). > [@More Info in "Play Version"](https://forums.plex.tv/t/more-info-in-play-version/312496): > > So my mom was trying to watch Return of the Jedi the other day, and she complained that the version I have is “the one with all the stupid cartoon stuff.” Of course, I know I have both the special edition and the theatrical release, but over the phone I was unable to direct her to the right version. Ultimately I deleted the special edition from my server entirely to avoid confusion in the future, but this presents a problem. The information provided by the “Play Version” modal is not particular… # You can filter your library by duplicates… this can be useful to identify movies for which you have different quality versions. Sometimes Plex will accidentally merge files and treat them as the same movie if your naming is a bit (too far) off. [https://support.plex.tv/articles/202393718-how-do-i-find-duplicate-or-merged-content/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/202393718-how-do-i-find-duplicate-or-merged-content/) ---
**Author:** ![simard57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@simard57](https://forums.plex.tv/u/simard57)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/5 "2021-02-14T13:54:19Z")
> [@tom80H](#): > > `Play version` action where is that action or how is it initiated? I used the Duplicate Filter feature often while ripping movies. I usually remove the “smaller” version. perhaps this is better in a different thread, but I am also creating Collections and I envisioned an Extendeded Edition collection for the movies. I suppose I will have to Split the Duplicates but how do I Match so it avoids recreating the Duplicate? Am I making any sense? ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/6 "2021-02-14T14:03:28Z")
## Play Version ![Bildschirmfoto 2021-02-14 um 14.56.59](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/4/a/4a6b346cabd164c28fa7db62f9db10e69ba5e847.jpeg) ![Bildschirmfoto 2021-02-14 um 14.57.23](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/7/b/7b016f766962062e219e7c778066ba8d64296bb3.png) ## Duplicates Splitting a movie will not unmatched the resulting items. They’re still associated to the same movie – except you’re now able to assign a different poster or to add the version name in the movie titles ![Bildschirmfoto 2021-02-14 um 15.02.46](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/f/4/f4c4af61e9e0ffd6c0c45c31bdd6a6e435ed2746.jpeg) _`Erweiterte Kinofassung`=Extended Theatrical Version, `Kinofassung`=Theatrical Version_ ---
**Author:** ![simard57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@simard57](https://forums.plex.tv/u/simard57)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/7 "2021-02-14T17:09:21Z")
> [@simard57](#): > > where is that action or how is it initiated? Splitting is the way to go… I will start doing that and add new titles to the Collections I am making. I ran into an issue - One of the entries show two files but does not allow them to be split - they appear to somehow be concatenated. ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/1/9/1935843a855fad53b74198eda88110213b935ee0.jpeg) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/3/2/328037d7ead6c86f07650a91adca117ec70d4215.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/8 "2021-02-14T17:32:53Z")
This movie is using so called “stacked files”. The naming is a bit off from the official naming schema though. Stacked files will play sequentially. You can use that if your movies come in multiple parts – e.g. the Lord of the Rings movies that were delivered on 2 discs. See “Movies Split Across Multiple Files” in the support article on [naming and organizing your movie media files](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/). Personally I prefer to actually append (merge) those files as not all Plex players can deal with stacked files. This can e.g. be done quite easily using MKVToolNix (even for non-MKV input files) > [@\[HowTo\]: joining multi-part movies files with MKVtoolnix GUI](https://forums.plex.tv/t/howto-joining-multi-part-movies-files-with-mkvtoolnix-gui/113211): > > The purpose of this HowTo is to join videofiles, when a movie was ripped and split into two or more files. (This happens usually with very long movies [i.e. LOTR] or more often back in the day when we had Video CD or DIVX CDs) The ultimate goal is to have the movie back in one file, so there is no trouble in the various Plex clients which do not support multi-part files. The tool used is [MKVtoolnixGUI](https://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ "MKVtoolnixGUI") it is freely available for all major PC operating systems. Therefore the container format … ---
**Author:** ![simard57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@simard57](https://forums.plex.tv/u/simard57)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/9 "2021-02-14T17:35:07Z")
how can I unstack them? ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/10 "2021-02-14T17:38:07Z")
With stacked files it’s all about your file names. You should be able to achieve this by dropping the “PT 1” and “PT 2” from those file names. That being said… do you really want Plex to show them as individual half-movies? ---
**Author:** ![simard57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@simard57](https://forums.plex.tv/u/simard57)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/11 "2021-02-14T21:38:49Z")
I am unsure how they broke the movie files up from D1 to D2 - does the movie intro begin and I have to carve that out to create the single file? I created a collection for LOTR - the Extended Edition and another for the Theatrical release. Looks fine on my PC Plex App but the Tivo and Vizio Plex apps do not offer up the Collections OR do not show all the collections I created… is there some mojo I need to do to make all the collection follow the movie Library? ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 9:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/12 "2021-02-14T21:58:03Z")
> [@simard57](#): > > Looks fine on my PC Plex App but the Tivo and Vizio Plex apps do not offer up the Collections… Those are indeed not listed as supported platforms for collections [https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/) # I have created my version of the Lord of the Rings Special Extended Edition movies from the DVD boxes. There the main movie is split across discs 1-2. I’ve ripped them using MakeMKV and there were no additional intros on the 2nd disc. The videos perfectly fit together. ---
**Author:** ![simard57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@simard57](https://forums.plex.tv/u/simard57)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 10:58pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/13 "2021-02-14T22:58:32Z")
the movies files are stored on my Synology NAS. Did you run the MakeMKV on the NAS or your connected client? once you create the merged file - did you delete the two copies? ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/14 "2021-02-14T23:01:59Z")
MakeMKV is no server software… you’ll need to run that on a regular computer (not your NAS or a Plex client). Once you’ve merged those 2 files you can replace the original files. Personally I’d check the new file out before deleting the originals – you can e.g. use VLC to just play the file… in particular have a look at the “stitching” to verify there’s no interruption. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-to-name-extended-edition/690424/15 "2021-05-15T23:02:50Z")
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