Movie names beginning with number show up as weird TV shows (and as movies)

[tebishop_me_com]

Server Version#: 1.18.7
Player Version#: 1.6.3

Media file contents:
Movies/9 to 5 (1982)/9 to 5.m4v
Movies/12 Angry Men (1957)/12 Angry Men.m4v
Movies/13 Hours (2016)/13 Hours.m4v
Movies/84 Charing Cross Road (1987)/84 Charing Cross Road.m4v
Movies/2001 A Space Odyssey/2001 A space Odyssey.m4v
TV Shows/1600 Penn/Season 1/s1E1 - Putting Out Fires.m4v

Result in Plex Player:
Movies all show up correctly.
TV Shows have 1600 Penn Season 1 shows correctly
A second TV show called “Home Movies” has 4 episodes in season 1:
“9 - Episode 9” 1hr 49 min show I can’t identify (poster is a clip from scene)
“12 - Law and Boarder” is actually 12 Angry Men movie
“13 - Brendon’s Choice” is actually 13 Hours movie
“84 - Episode 84” is actually 84 Charing Cross Road movie
Note that I have no TV or Movie the corresponds to “Law and Boarder” or “Brendon’s Choice”.

My question is how do I name movies that begin with a number so they don’t show up as extraneous entries in the TV section of Plex in addition to correctly showing up in the Movie section of Plex? Thanks!

[JuiceWSA]

Rename/Restructure your Movies:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/

Rename/Restructure your TV Shows:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/naming-and-organizing-tv-shows/

Set Local Media Assets so as not to destroy your Plexiverse
(when you use MP4/M4V files):

Video File Naming

With LMA in priority, Embedded Titles within MP4/M4V files are preferred - even over a perfect file name. Local Media Assets should - AT ALL TIMES - remain enabled (unless specifically instructed to turn it off). Local Media Assets should be ‘Demoted’, to the bottom of the stack of active agents under ALL tabs in Shows and Movies, but should NOT be disabled. Local Media Assets is needed for many things - it doesn’t need to be given Tip-Top-Priority (as Plex has so hatefully placed it as it’s …

You MUST put TV Shows into a TV Shows Library Type
You MUST put Movies into a Movie Library Type
Period

[Havohej]

How is this relevant? The problem is with movies which name starts with a digit. I have the same problem.

[tebishop_me_com]

@JuiceWSA

https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/naming-and-organizing-tv-shows/

Movies and TV Shows are set up in separate folders under Plex Media Folder.

I put “Local Media Assets” at the bottom of all the Show and Movie tabs, closed Plex and Plex sever and restarted both. Results unchanged.

[JuiceWSA]

@Havohej

How is this relevant? The problem is with movies which name starts with a digit. I have the same problem.

It can’t be any MORE relevant.

A Movie Library\
.......12 Angry Men (1957)\
..........12 Angry Men (1957).mkv

A TV Show Library\
....1600 Penn\
........Season 01\
............1600 Penn - S01E01.mp4
............1600 Penn - S01E02.mp4

FileBot

[JuiceWSA]

@tebishop_me_com

I put “Local Media Assets” at the bottom of all the Show and Movie tabs, closed Plex and Plex sever and restarted both. Results unchanged.

You MUST name and structure your files properly - if you expect Plex to work:

https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/

Then you MUST Plex Dance:

The Plex Dance ™

The purpose of this is to remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item that Plex usually keeps. This helps when you want to “start from scratch” for particular item move all files for the media item out of the directory your Library is looking at, so Plex will not “see” it anymore scan the library library (to detect changes) empty trash clean bundles (in menu next to server name, when accessed under ‘More’) double check naming schema and move files back scan the library Support articl…

https://www.filebot.net/ <—Veterans Agree: Filebot is Cool.
(Veterans also know how much of a PITA it is to fix stuff - Veterans use FileBot BEFORE stuff goes to the Libraries - no ‘Fixing’ Required)

[skwor01]

Ansolutly agree. Filebot is the way to go. I use Filebot to name everything in Plex before it even gets to the media folders.

[pshanew]

@tebishop_me_com

Movies and TV Shows are set up in separate folders under Plex Media Folder.

In case it wasn’t clear from the others’ posts, it’s not enough to simply have your movies and TV shows in separate folders. Your Plex libraries must point to those folders. For example, if you have:

Media/
     Movies/
          Some Movie/
          ...
     TV Shows/
          Some TV Show/
          ...

In the Add Folders section of your Movies-type library configuration, it must point to /Media/Movies. And in the Add Folders section of your TV Shows-type library, it must point to /Media/TV Shows. Neither of them can point to /Media directly. This is just an example, your actual paths are likely different. But what you’re describing sounds exactly like what we’d expect to see if you had movies in your TV shows library path.

[tebishop_me_com]

I do have the Movies library pointing to Media/Movies folder and TV Show library pointing to Media/TV Shows folder. But thanks for making that clearer for all.

Now I just have to figure out this “Plex Dance” to get rid of the cached information. On that count, I’m not sure about the reference to “clean bundles”?

[tebishop_me_com]

OK, I followed your instructions to remove all cached metadata etc. That didn’t quite do the trick. I also had to delete the errant TV Show (Home Movies) manually from the Plex library and once again empty the trash. Then the movies and TV shows all look as I expected.

So I think this particular issue is resolved.

I’m sure I’ll be back with more (unrelated) questions as I delve deeper into Plex. Lots of homework to do before I can go “live” with this system!

Thanks for your help.

[JuiceWSA]

@tebishop_me_com

That didn’t quite do the trick.

“The Trick” is to follow The Plex Dance Instructions, exactly as they’re described, in the order they are listed, in their entirety.

Glad it’s sorted.