I have been placing mini series in the movie folder as a multi part movie…
This has worked fine till recently…
Reading other posts some have had to move these to a TV type library.
So the question?
Plex is it now recommended/required that all mini series be placed in a TV Series folder so it can get matched correctly…
as I don’t what to create this new library Mini Series and move items there and find out they still wont match correctly…
Not directly a Plex requirement per se.
A few months ago, The Movie Database changed its rules, which now require that mini series are handled as ‘tv shows’.
They are no longer allowed to be added as ‘movies’ to TMDB.
Hence why you won’t get a match when you add a mini series into a movie library - simply because there are no metadata available.
@OttoKerner OK…
So should Plex users going forward add these mini series to a TV folder?
And what then would be the file name format to get it to match correctly…
Yes, definitely.
The same rules which apply to all tv shows:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220687-naming-series-season-based-tv-shows/
If you have external subtitles, you even need to use the ‘Season nn’ subfolder - even though your mini series only has one season.
Adding to Otto’s comment…
You can then configure that show to hide the seasons (considering your mini-series only got one). This will make it more easy to navigate
When editing the library, go to Advanced and set the Seasons property to hide.
You better configure this as a library default.
It makes editing each tv show with only one season unnecessary.
Edit your library, go to the ‘Advanced’ tab
true… while the per-show setting only has show/hide as possible values, you can set it to hide for single-season shows … (just updating my own settings 
)
OK, so then I would;
create Mini Series as a TV Series Folder.
set the seasons property to hide.
so what would the fine name look like.
mini series (2020) (E01) (1080p).mp4
mini series (2020) (E02) (1080p).mp4
or do I still need to include a season (S00E01)
Exactly as described in my link.
Including the folder structure!
/ TV Shows
/ mini series (2020)
/ Season 01
mini series (2020) - s01e01 - (1080p).mp4
mini series (2020) - s01e02 - (1080p).mp4
so I do need to keep the season format, but i’m hiding it in Plex,
guess I’ll play with it and see what happens.
Thanks…
I’ve had this frustration with some Stephen King “movies” on disc, that were two-part mini series when they aired on TV (Salem’s Lot - 1979 & 2014, It - 1990, The Langoliers - 1995). Since I wanted them in with the rest of my Stephen King movie collection, had to manually add my own metadata in Plex, and live without the actor info displaying.
Not ideal, but it gets the job done.
You could have used an actual collection to bring together both the movies and the TV shows. Just add both the movies and the TV shows into a collection of exactly the same name.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/
OttoKerner… What I did is create a new library Mini Series configured as a TV library.
I did then added collection tags as required… This gives users the ability to watch a mini-series in order and to find associated movies…
One question, I followed the TV standard and creating the Season 1 folder, did I need to, since it’s the only season…
Thanks for your help with this…
Agreed…
But that would have split them into two groups. I was after everything inline by date in a single group, and was purposely avoiding a separate grouping at the bottom of the page for these movies/mini series.
More than one one option though, which is a good thing.
But how do users find what they are looking for;
By title, actor, director, or movie vs television…
And Plex makes those associations for you…
That’s why I have one library for movies, TV, mini-series and let Plex do the work to find what the user wants…
Yes, always create the ‘Season 0x’ folder. Even if you are going to hide it away later in the Plex user interface.
Thanks…
Good to know…
Side note on the Steven King mini series / double features…
Some of those are also listed as single-instance movies in TheMovieDb.org. So alternative to creating a mini series / tv show you should also be able to list them as multi-part (multi-file) movie alongside your other Steven King movies.
Example:
However that doesn’t work for all of them… e.g. The Langoliers (1995) and It (1990) aren’t listed as movies and therefore cannot be used in this way.
I’m the only Stephen King fan in the family, so only yawns from them on this. Searching by the titles does show the movies in the search results.
In all cases the two-part mini-series had been combined into a single movie on the discs. Didn’t see a need to split them. Thanks for the tip on the features in the TheMovieDb.org.
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