Server Version#: Version 1.19.1.2645 Player Version#: Version 4.31.1 As per Support article, a single file with multiple episodes should be named as follows: Multiple Episodes in a Single File If a single file covers more than one episode, name it as follows: /TV Shows/ShowName/Season 02/ShowNa…

I would try this tutorial from Otto. [image] [HowTo]: splitting multi-episode files with MKVtoolnix GUI Tips, Tricks & How-Tos The purpose of this HowTo is to split videofiles which contain more than one episode of a tv show into single-episode files. So they show up indi…

What OS is this running on? You’ve picked 3 different tags. [image] rjblake: S03E11-E12.mp4 Where’s the show name?

@anon18523487 - its the folder name (e.g SEAL Team -> Season 3)

@SE56 - thanks. Seems that this is the only real fix. Plex Scanner used to work correctly, but no longer it seems

If I may add here? Multiepisode notation as shown by MovieFan.Plex above Full proper naming. [chuck@lizum SEAL Team.358]$ ll total 40 drwxrwxrwx 5 chuck chuck 4096 Oct 2 2019 ./ drwxr-xr-x 45 chuck chuck 4096 Mar 30 01:57 ../ drwxr-xr-x 2 chuck chuck 4096 Aug 3 2019 Season 01/ drwxr-xr-x 2…

@ChuckPa - thanks for the detail. As mentioned, I have renamed all sorts of combinations for the files (including spaces, dashes, periods, show names, etc.) as per the support page. None of these have worked with the latest versions of the Plex server for me. I have also done the ‘Plex Dance’ of rem…

@trumpy81 - thanks. Did a DB check, dump, re-import and then copied a folder to create a new Test library too. Oddly enough, it adds Episodes 1->5, but misses Episode 6 as below images show [Screenshot 2020-04-15 at 17.06.40] [Screenshot 2020-04-15 at 17.09.34] [Screenshot 2020-04-15 at 17.09.58] …

I smell the need for an LMA Hack…: [image] Video File Naming Desktops & Laptops 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 instruc…

[image] JuiceWSA: [LMAHack-Year20] …and I think you might have hit the nail on the head! All my MP4 files have metadata; however it was disabled and moving/enabling still hasn’t sorted things (perhaps need a restart). I’m going to create a set of small ‘dummy MP4’ files and see if this still …

If refreshing the metadata at the show level doesn’t do the trick - Plex Dancing the show will (probably): [image] The Plex Dance ™ Tips, Tricks & How-Tos The purpose of this is to remove all cached metadata and xml data for an item that Plex usually keeps. This helps whe…

Multiple Episodes in a Single File (naming) -not working

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SE56 April 14, 2020, 12:15pm 2

I would try this tutorial from Otto.

Available on MacOS also

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Multiple Episodes in a Single File (naming) -not working

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