It is a foreign show which is probably why it wasn’t classified as a TV show instantly like other shows I have uploaded, but I’m not sure how to label them so I can have each season with one thumbnail, in the TV show section, or in the worst case just be under one thumbnail with the ability to see and select different episodes after the initial click.
I’ve read around but I can’t find an answer. Any help would be appreciated as it really clogs up my library and makes looking through content kind of a pain.
I had a similar issue with a show that had episodes show up in the movie library, but I just selected them and merged them and they went to the tv section, but for whatever reason, this show refuses to do the same.
Please share how you have the files organized and named, including file extension (.mkv/.mp4/etc). A directory listing, screenshot, etc.
Movies and TV Shows must be kept in separate directory structures and separate libraries. Do not point a movie library at a directory with TV shows or visa-versa.
ok, let me explain. When i first moved everything onto plex I had a full season of Archer downloaded, I downloaded them one by one as they became available from different sources. They all showed up in my movies library. But when I selected and merged those episodes they vanished from the movie library and showed up where they are now in the TV library and I can click on it and choose which episode to watch.
But when I try to do that with Ranma 1/2 it does not act the same way.
If I’m understanding what I read from that link I should type out in the sort title
Ranma 1/2/Season 1a/Ranma 1/2 – s01e1.ext
for each episode and it will reorganize into the format Archer did? Is that right?
It was Archer. but once I merged the individual episodes it instantly went to the TV library. But earlier i had all 130+ episodes of Ranma 1/2 clogging up my movie library and I’m trying to work that into something more manageable and functional
it sounds like you have everything on one big folder and made both libraries point at the same folder. as fordguy mentioned above put movies in one folder and tv shows in another. each show should have it’s own folder in that. and each episode file of a show needs the S01E02 notation.
Where do I type that? Do I edit it in the sort title or main title on Plex, or do I edit the actual file name?
I didn’t have a directory structure (that I know of), I just synced my NAS and everything was all over the place so I merged some episodes and then they vanished into my TV library and others didn’t. I’m not sure why it worked with some but not others. I haven’t really organized it manually in any certain way up to this point. other than playing with the sort title, but I’m not sure how to test if that was working
That’s the weird thing. Archer was set up with each episode in it’s own individual folder because that’s how I downloaded them and added SRT to. But Ranma came in one big file (per season) with all the episodes inside.
I didn’t purposefully make the libraries point at the same folder. Everything that happened did so without me really doing anything other than selecting and merging
ok, so I’m editing the actual file name and not the sort title, right? That would probably be easier than having to edit every single sort title anyways.
Its ok if I leave the title of the episode in the option info since that doesn’t effect sorting, right??
That makes sense because each episode of Archer was in it’s own folder and I think it had S00E00 in each file name. So that’s probably why it worked out that way.
The work you put in up front will save headaches down the road.
Take a look at Filebot, https://www.filebot.net/. It can help if you’ve a lot of movies/shows to rename. It has templates that conform to Plex naming requirements. I do not use it, but those who do swear by it.
Don’t hesitate to post on the forum if you run into any issues. Plenty of folks here willing to help.
