I have these two movies with correct disk access for Plex:
Plex incorrectly recognises them as a TV-show (travel documentary) called Journey Through Albania (see the title “Alien” on it’s poster) and marks them as Season 2012 (1 ep.) and Season 2017 (1 ep.)
I can’t match them to the correct movie, since they are locked into the TV Show library.
What can I do to fix this?
These have to go in a movie library in their own separate folders with the correct naming
Alien Covenant (2017)
Prometheus (2012)
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/
Well, I use the same NAS-dataset for all video media, which is the Movie folder. That mostly isn’t an issue, although my goal of creating custom sorted collections spanning both movies and series (hi, Marvel Cinematic Universe) is still a challenge.
Is it mandatory to change that?
I think the problem is basically due to your filenames and organization.
I don’t understand why Plex is putting these movies in a TV library, unless your TV library is pointing to the folder where your movies are. This is a big problem for Plex, and will likely cause “unexpected or incorrect behavior.”
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/
I also see some problems with your filenames (also outlined in the above article). The name of the ‘Prometheus’ movie is just “Prometheus,” as far as I can tell from IMDB and other places. The year of the movie should be after the complete title, and in parentheses. So try:
(I replaced the colon in Covenant with a dash, because I think Windows has a problem with colons).
I’m also not sure about having the Alien movies in an “Alien” subdirectory, but I don’t know if that’s a problem.
It is mandatory unfortunately. You cannot mix and match movies and TV in the same type of library or you will always have one or the other being unmatched
On your NAS you should have a minimum of one TV show folder and one Movie folder with the respective libraries linked inside Plex
You can however keep two separate libraries and link collections across those libraries
In both libraries just create a collection with the exact same name
Scroll down to the part where you see Star Wars towards the bottom of this page
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/
Oooh… sweet. Thanks. But this still limits the collection in not being able to custom-sort the movies and series in timeline order. They’re still separately listen. :-/
I’ll probably try to “fake” the series into multi-part movies and force them into a movie library that way and manually try to match them.
Or maybe try to get Disney+ to implement your own custom playlists. That would be the best option tbh.
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