Local extras not displayed under multiple versions of a movie, i.e. theatrical and director's cut

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Once upon a time I was able to have multiple versions of the same movie, theatrical cut, director’s cut, etc. and each version would display the local extras associated with that movie. That no longer seems to work. Was the function removed or is there a new way to make the work? I recently had to change my method of metadata collection and use The Movie Database instead of local media assets. Could that be the cause?

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If you have both of your movie ‘versions’ in the same subfolder
and one of the files is matched against Freebase, while the other is matched against TheMovieDB, then Plex sees them as two different movies and will ignore the local extras.
All you can do is to separate the versions each into their own subfolders and duplicate the local extras files (if you want them to show up in both versions).

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OttoKerner, thanks for the info. Do you know if this is new from an update or is it due to me needing to switch from using internal metadata to TMDb? Up until recent I would add my own file info with iDentify and only use that to populate fields in the library. Because Plex is now having trouble reading that data I changed the Agents list to use TMDb. I guess what I’m wondering is if it’s from the change in Agents or from a change in the system. One I can try and fix, but the other I’ll just need to deal with.

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I am not sure about htat.
I assume iDentify writes metadata into your files, right?
If so, it may be, that Plex sees two different movies “matched” to the Local Media Assets agent as two different movies.
You can verify that by going into the mediainfo XML of both ‘versions’ of your movie.
Compare the value of the guid= property. If they’re different, Plex sees them as two different movies.

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Thanks for the help OttoKerner, I marked your first post as the answer. I guess, for now, I’ll just use the Scenes folder option and store the other versions as Local Extras. At least that way I can access them and keep everything together. I’m hoping they’ll make some changes to the way multiple versions are displayed, maybe I’ll write out a feature request. Anyway, thanks again.

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@OsBerg said:
Thanks for the help OttoKerner, I marked your first post as the answer. I guess, for now, I’ll just use the Scenes folder option and store the other versions as Local Extras.

Keep in mind, that you can only use either the ‘Extras subfolder’ method or the filename ‘-appendix’ method within one movie.
So

Main Movie (2016) /
   Main Movie (2016).mp4
      Scenes /
         scene1.mp4
         scene2.mp4
         scene3.mp4
      Theatrical Teaser-trailer.mp4

won’t work.

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Thanks, I only use folders. It’s easier for me that way. The first post from another question shows an image of my file structure if you’re interested.

forums.plex.tv/discussion/222133/plex-displaying-file-name-instead-of-title/p1

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Understood. All good in this case.