This is how SpongeBob Season 1 looks in PLEX: [image] This is how it looks in the folder: [image] Note that SpongeBob doesn’t ever air as multiple episodes in a half-hour time slot. Instead, each episode includes 2 stories. In a standard 20 episode season, you get 40 stories. In this example,…

You can get most of what you request using Plex’s current naming guidelines, which supports multiple episodes in a single file. That approach does have limitations. You’ll have better results splitting the files into individual episodes. Also, Plex uses TheTVDB.com to match episode numbers and na…

Yep. I agree that this is a workaround that works (mostly) with the current version. I know the workaround and have used it in the past. But this is not a support request. Rather, this is a request for a new feature that would help users deal with the mismatch of meta-data and file structure. What …

Match Meta-Data to File Structure

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