Not sure if this has been brought up. I know it has recently been added to allow for multiple versions of movies (ie. Theatrcial, Director’s cut). Does this process work the same for tv episodes or would this feature need to be implemented for TV episodes?
Thanks
Multiple editions is only for movies right now. Plex is investigating how to add to TV shows.
Thanks for the clarification. Wouldn’t be common for me to use but would be nice if I can use this with some of Star Trek: TOS episodes (original and HD versions).
Completely agree. I have versions of TV shows that are both DVD quality and also 1080 quality. There is no way to do versioning with TV shows 
It makes a difference which one I want to stream as I don’t want to run into any transcoding issues.
Here’s a thread discussing the same issue and possible work-arounds.
My use case is the Star Trek The Original Series on bluray. They include both versions of each episode, original version and new versions with updated CGI. Both version are in HD. So there is no way to differentiate in plex. (Switching to different version within plex)
Whenever I brought them in to Plex they were offered as two versions of the program. Unfortunately there is no option to describe which version is what so I split them. That worked, I now have an original series and a remastered series.
Unfortunately the episodes in the remastered folder will not update the metadata. In the original series each episode has the correct name. In the remastered option each episode is presented as “Star Trek Season 1: Disc 1” and then “Episode 1” underneath that and progresses up through each of the discs in the release.
My folders are as follows;
TV Shows
-Star Trek The Original Series (1966) {tmdb-253}
—Season 01
—Season 02
—Season 03
-Star Trek The Original Series Remastered (1966) {tmdb-253}
—Season 01
—Season 02
—Season 03
What am I doing wrong? Thanks!
Please provide a directory listing, screenshot, etc showing the file path and episode naming for both original and remastered versions. Include the file extension - mp4/mkv/etc.
Wondering where Plex is picking up “Disc 1.”
I ran the remasters through Handbrake and somehow the “Disc #” is embedded in the More Info → Title field. Not sure how to remove that and if that would fix it?
My process to add them to my library was MakeMKV and then FileBot, other than using Handbrake I can’t think of why the originals don’t have that bit of info and the remasters do. Doesn’t make sense.
Plex is picking up the embedded metadata in the MP4/M4V file.
Two options. Either should work.
Option 1: Tell Plex not to pick up embedded metadata. This affects all shows in the library.
Option 2: Remove embedded metadata.
Both options worked for me. THANK YOU!
Until I figure out how where that “Disc #” came from I’m going to use option 1 for now. Hopefully that doesn’t come back to bite me later when I forgot I changed it. 
Glad you have things working.
Some FYIs:
“Disc #” is probably in the disc name and was picked up by MakeMKV, Handbrake, or whatever application you used to pull the episodes from the disc.
“Prefer Local Metadata” is (or should be) off by default when creating a new Movie/TV Show/Other Video library.
You can use MKVs to avoid issues with embedded metadata. Plex reads embedded metadata only from MP4/M4V containers. It does not read such info from MKV or other containers.
Subler is a very nice program for working with MP4/M4V files. You can also use it to download metadata, artwork, etc from the Internet. I used Subler extensively before replacing iTunes with Plex. It made getting movies and shows into iTunes a breeze after transcoding them with Handbrake.
That’s some good info. Over the last few years I was going back and forth on whether I should take the time to move our disc collection to Plex, or continue using the physical media. We’re now trying to clear up some room in the house so I’ve been giving a more concentrated effort in getting this all working.
Not to derail this thread, but the general practice of MakeMKV to Handbrake is still “a thing” right?
It is for me. 
There are other tools available, but MakeMKV and Handbrake are the ones I use. I’m comfortable with them and it would be a pain to change.
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