Is there a way to name Episodes in Personal Media Show?

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Hi all,

I’ve got a lot of various personal stuff arranged in “shows” and “seasons”. Works generally well but I can’t seem to find a way to have episodes named (they all have Episode 1, Episode N names) apart from doing it manually from web front.

Considering that some of those “shows” have hundreds of files, that’s not exactly feasible way.

I made sure Personal Media Shows agent is used and is first in the list for that library.

I tried naming files correctly (e.g. MyShow.S01E01.TheEpisodeName.mkv) but that is ignored as per help page.

I tried setting up Title in metadata, using ffmpeg and using mkvpropedit. This also seems to be ignored, even though players (like VLC or built in Windows player), as well as Windows Explorer show title correctly.

I know there’s plugin for Extended Personal Media but as I’m running PMS on my Nvidia Shield TV, custom plugins are not available.

Is what I want completely impossible using built-in stuff? I thought personal media agent picks title metadata up (and I’ve seen it do so for Movies alright) but it seems to ignore it for shows.

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no out-of-the-box way to achieve what you’re looking for.
the only exception I’m aware of is to put your media in MP4/M4V containers – from those, Plex will read and use the embedded metadata (if configured accordingly).

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@tom80H said:
the only exception I’m aware of is to put your media in MP4/M4V containers – from those, Plex will read and use the embedded metadata (if configured accordingly).

Uh, ok. Thanks mate, negative is also an answer, at least I stop futile attempts :slight_smile:

Cheers!

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Convoluted workaround:
Make Kodi-compatible .nfo files with all the metadata.
Use for instance Ember Media Manager to create them.

Download and install the .nfo importer agents into Plex.

Afterwards, ‘match’ your series with this agent (using ‘Fix Match/Match’)

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@OttoKerner said:
Download and install the .nfo importer agents into Plex.
Afterwards, ‘match’ your series with this agent (using ‘Fix Match/Match’)

It’s currently impossible to install PMS plugins on Shield TV but thanks, good workaround.