So I have a Library containing about 20 Videos that is currently a Home Video Library, and I have used local assets to align each Video with an appropriate Poster.jpg and Fanart.jpg, and everything is perfect... except... now I would like to move this Library over to my TV Shows Library and simply have it show up as a TV Show with multiple episodes underneath it (then ultimately get rid of the top level Library).
Of course it has no naming convention that my current TV Shows scanner and agent (theTVDB) would find or understand. But I was hoping that I could just copy the folder over into one of my TV Shows folders that get scanned regularly and simply correct "that portion" of the library by either unmatching, or scanning that "TV Show" with "Local Media Assets." Assuming that once corrected, any future Library updates would just skip this folder for future matching.
So I have copied the files over, done a update on the TV Shows Library, but it won't identify the new folder or even one file (the videos within are .mpg's) so it won't even create a "wrong" TV Show that I can then manually correct.
Any thoughts here by the experts? Perhaps I need to go ahead and give them SxxExx type filenames to get the scanner to at least screw-up and then change them?
If you just copied them over, are they already named like a TV Show?
The TV Show scanner is designed to ignore things that specifically look like movies (among other things) so if it does not see a S01E01 etc it won't add the files at all.
For that I use another program called ReNamer Lite which allows you to serialize and insert text to a number of files. So in your case I would add 3 rules:
Insert .
Serialize xx
Insert Disney Extinct.S01E
This will add the S01EXX starting at whatever number you pick to the end of the list for all the files you drag in.
Forgot to mention, you're basically creating your own TV Show. Plex will attempt to match it still to theTVDB but won't find anything. At that point your show will appear and if you have the local media assest enabled for the agents it should pull your artwork automatically. I have had some hit or miss uses with custom artwork though.
You confirmed my thoughts, I need to go ahead and give them Season and Episode numbers even if they are false. Until I do, they won't even be identified by TheTVDB agent to even get passed on to the local media assets.
There aren't that many that I should need a renaming tool, I'll just change them by hand and let you know how that worked (for the record).
Thanx for the assist.
[OMG, I can't believe after almost 30 years, I still remembered how to use the rename command in a DOS prompt]
In order to get the result I wanted however, I needed to name each Video as a separate "Season #" and name all of them Episode One (SxxE01). Then refresh and go in an update the poster for each Season as the poster (which I had made earlier), for each individual title because they all defaulted to the TV Show, main poster. Lastly, I had to manually name each "Episode 1" (within each season) to the name of the video (since I had forgotten that the TV Show scanner only understands and lists them as Season X, Episode Y. Glad there were only 19 of them because it was kind of a pain. I assume that if I had embedded the actual name of each video into each .mpg file as metadata, it might have done that last step automatically, because it wouldn't pick it up from the actual file name.
I'm not quite sure the best approach... Maybe you should send me your "My Adult Clips" and "My Adult Movies" folders so I can better help you find a solution! :-)
The TV Show scanner is designed to ignore things that specifically look like movies (among other things) so if it does see a S01E01 etc it won't add the files at all.
J_McKee,
I assume you have a typo in the above statement.... I believe you mean to say that if the scanner does "not" see a S01E01, etc... it won't add the files.
At least that was my interpretation.
Am I correct here?
I assume you have a typo in the above statement.... I believe you mean to say that if the scanner does "not" see a S01E01, etc... it won't add the files.
At least that was my interpretation.
Am I correct here?
You are correct, I thought I corrected that typo, but must have missed.
I have fixed it now though for anyone coming back in to read it later ;)
