'Long' Shorts & behind the scenes?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I have some ‘behind the scenes’ like the Alien Antology 'the beast within, making alien, that are over 2 hours long.
If I put them in an ‘extras’ folder it doesn’t show up in plex. (Shorter clips do). Is there a max length on featurettes?
If so, why or can it be increased?

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I’m not aware of such a limitation and used to have a longer Matrix documentation listed as an extra for some time with no issues.

How did you name / organize this particular extra?

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A folder named Extras is not supported.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/local-files-for-trailers-and-extras/

4

Hi,
Sorry for not being clear. I meant a directory of one of the supported types.

  • Behind The Scenes
  • Deleted Scenes
  • Featurettes
  • Interviews
  • Scenes
  • Shorts
  • Trailers
  • Other
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Length shouldn’t be an issue. I have a 90 minute documentary (Karen Blixen: Storyteller) alongside my Babette’s Feast rip, tucked into the Other directory.

I generally prefer using directories rather than inline naming, and as Plex does not recognize Extras as a directory, I follow the naming scheme and load contents according to my best judgment.

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This is how I named it AA01 - The Beast Within - Making Alien

7

Please show the whole subfolder of this movie.

Which metadata agent is used for the library? This will only work if you use “Plex Movies”.

8

Keep your file names short and sweet.
Anything that resembles the naming of an episode of a tv show could be ignored in a movies-type library.

9

Got it working now, must have been the filename

10

I seem to be getting away with some long titles here, in the extras. Luck of the Irish, I suppose.

11

I’ve found, lately, that the extras don’t always get picked up in the pass that picks up the movies. They do follow along eventually, though, especially if you do a metadata refresh on titles missing their spiffs.

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A long file name is not preventing the file from getting picked up. It’s just that you won’t see this long title in full in the user interface of many Plex clients.

That’s technically because extras are handled by the metadata agent, while the initial scanning is done by the scanner. The agent does its thing only after the scanner has finished. If you enter the preplay page of a new item too early, the agent may not be finished yet.

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Oh, understood. Looking at it, it doesn’t take many words to end up with a title trailing into the void. May we not have many Ray Denis Steckler styled titles.

The extras usually show up within a few minutes. Once or twice it’s taken slightly longer.