Ignoring text such as -scene and -short in tv show filename

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Hello All,

Is there any way to force Plex to match TV Show filenames that contain text such as -scene and -short in them.

I name all of my TV shows as follows:
ShowName/Season.xx/ShowName.SxxEyy-EpisodeName.mkv
For example: Chicago.Fire/Season.04/Chicago.Fire.S04E09-Short.and.Fat.mkv

In the above example, the episode is not matched and does not appear in the season. I believe this is due to the -Short in the filename. (I’ve come across others which contain -Scene as well)

When I find this issue, I simply rename the file to Chicago.Fire.S04E09-**’**Short.and.Fat.mkv which I am OK with, but was just wondering if I can avoid having to do this since I automate renaming, encrypting and uploading to my amazon cloud drive.

I have already disabled the Local Media Assets scraper as well as the “Find trailers and extras automatically” in TheTVDB Settings.

Thanks in advance

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I’d try first to bring my file and folder names into compliance.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows

  • Don’t replace space characters with dots or other characters
  • the separation between ‘show title’ and ‘season/episode’ code is supposed to be space-hyphen-space
  • the same applies to the separation between season/episode code and the ‘optional info’

Chicago Fire/Season 04/Chicago Fire - S04E09 - Short and Fat.mkv

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Thank you. Since I was running Plex on linux, I chose not to have spaces in my filenames. However, I will update my file names to conform to the exact compliance in the article you pointed me to.

Thanks Again

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@ChrisA918 said:
I will update my file names to conform to the exact compliance in the article you pointed me to.

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