Movie extra not showing up ("-interview" tag)

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Greetings fellow Plexians,

I’m trying to get movie extras to appear beneath my movie but am having some difficulty.

The movie I’m looking at right now is “A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).mkv” and the extra in question is titled “Closing with Steven Spielberg-interview.mkv”

D:\Movies\A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)\A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).mkv
D:\Movies\A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)\Closing with Steven Spielberg-interview.mkv

The movie itself appears normally in the library but there is no sign of this extra:

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I’ve already tried the Plex Dance™ but to no avail. Maybe because I’m a terrible dancer?

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Any ideas? :thinking:

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Make sure you have Local Media Assets enabled.

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Check! :check_mark:

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Make sure the ‘i’ in -interview isn’t a capital.

Fordie may trust you, but I don’t.

Show us the file names - exactly - a screenshot…lol

OH hold the presses.

You got no Movie Library Folder off the root - if what you show is what you got.
There’s your problem.

A library can’t be the root of a drive.
and not have issues.
like this one, perhaps.

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I think I’m doing everything right! :joy:

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(Runs back to fix typo in my first post that made it look there was no Movies folder in the root…)

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OK.
Looks good to me.

Just confirming - this is the only ‘Version’ of this movie you have, right?
If not, remove all versions - Plex Dance everything.
Add the movie with the extra FIRST.
Then you can add the others.

Every single step of the Plex Dance must be done - or it won’t work.
Try it once more - this time with ‘feeling’…lol:

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Look who decided to show up!

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So here’s what happened…

I had a bunch of other extras in that movie folder, all still needing to be tidied up as far as naming was concerned. Back when I threw this straight into my library a few weeks ago, I was a total noob and didn’t realize the naming needed to be sorted out first etc.

For screenshot purposes just now, I left only the two files we were talking about in the movie folder and moved the incorrectly named files (still needing tags) out of my library and lo and behold, all of a sudden Plex is showing this -interview extra, with no further help from me. No Plex Dance or anything.

It never occurred to me that incorrectly named/tagged files could actually interfere with other correctly labeled extras and prevent them from appearing!

Basically, it wasn’t my fault… I blame these guys! :wink:

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You could also try the Interviews subfolder (note capitalization and spelling).

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Funny/Tragic story:
I had this big gob of extras with a movie - all different kinds - all added at once.
I have thousands of the things, they all work fine - no extras for this movie would show up.

Finally - I had one capital letter in a tag and it blew every extra in the folder.

Yep - it matters.

Glad it’s sorted.

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Interesting. Sounds like what happened to me just now.

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Yep - exactly.
You won’t forget that I’ll bet.

lol

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Yep. I won’t make that mistake again!

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Yeah. If you have something named wrong, it will appear to PMS that you have 2 movies in that folder. It won’t know which movie is suppose to have the extra(s) so they are left out. This is actually expected so you don’t get them with the wrong movie.

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That’s actually pretty cool.

I had a feeling that it must have been a deliberate design decision but I was having trouble getting my brain around it lol.

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