This might have been covered, but searching yields all sorts of non-specific cases. I have a multi-disc movie/musical of Steve Vai Where the Wild Things Are (2009). I named the 2 discs files in the folder according to the instructions. This method worked with Gone with the Wind and Dr. Zhivago. How…

How exactly did you name those files?

Dir: Movies\Steve.Vai.Where.the.Wild.Things.Are.2009 Files: Steve.Vai.Where.the.Wild.Things.Are..2009.disc1.mkv Steve.Vai.Where.the.Wild.Things.Are.2009.disc2.mkv If I search “Where the Wild Things Are” in Movie Database agent, it will find a match. thanks!

Ok… Naming for that movie should be: Steve Vai Where the Wild Things Are (2009) For Plex to pick up it’s different parts of the same video, there’s certain prerequisites… e.g. the files being in a dedicated movie folder, the stream types and sequences to match etc… and of course last not least t…

@tom80H appreciate the reply. I followed your recommendation but it still struggled to match. I tried manual and auto using the movie database. When I used the auto match it collapsed them into a single item with the 2 in the upper left corner. Looking at the XML file, the disc2 is first item. I c…

I suppose you could join the two disc together. [image] [HowTo]: joining multi-part movies files with MKVtoolnix GUI Tips, Tricks & How-Tos The purpose of this HowTo is to join videofiles, when a movie was ripped and split into two or more files. (This happens usually wi…

Lose the space after the last hyphen: Plex\Movies\Steve Vai Where the Wild Things Are (2009) Steve Vai Where the Wild Things Are (2009) -disc1.mkv Steve Vai Where the Wild Things Are (2009) -disc2.mkv Or use the best solution, which is to have only one video file: [HowTo]: joining multi-part movie…

Thanks folks. Unfortunately deleting the space didn’t quite fix the problem. However, I used the MKVtoolnix to join the movie. I think there might just be a small gap in function where there are multi-discs AND the scrapper doesn’t pull the correct information. Not a big deal for me. Learning that M…

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I suppose you could join the two disc together.

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