Hello,
I am trying to organize my TV show library and for some reason I have a show with 4 season and they are showing up under 6 folders. How do I make it so there is 1 folder for the show with the 4 seasons?
Thank you for your help!
What is your folder structure like?
Did you follow the correct naming convention?
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/
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This is how I have my TV files names and stored.
F:\Shameless\Season 07\Shameless.S07E01
So where is the tv show file?
Show the entire path including the video files.
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you mean this?
F:\Shameless\Season 07\Shameless.S07E01.avi
You should have a top level for TV Shows and use this when adding the Library, so it should be something like this:
F:\TV\Shameless\Season 07\Shameless.S07E01.avi
although your actual file naming is a bit off, something like this.
Shameless - S07E01.avi
would be better
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My F: drive is dedicated to TV shows that’s why I don’t have it in a F:\TV folder. But I guess I need to move all my TV shows into at TV folder, it won’t work without all the shows being in a TV folder?
While it MAY work occasionally, best practice is to organize like @blim5001 states.
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Ok I will give that a try and see how it goes. I have a lot of shows to go through. Thank you all for your help.
filebot should make it easy to rename your files, just search the forum for more info
Hello! This topic just caught my eye. As I don’t have much time right now, I thought I’d give a brief overview on how I solve this problem. If there is interest in how I do this, please let me know and I’ll try to provide more details. Also I’m not sure if I’m allowed to mention other third party tools on this forum directly by name or not. Just to be on the safe side, I’ll describe how I am doing it in general terms.
In the context of TV Shows.
My operating system running plexmediaserver_plexpass is running on FreeBSD.
Inside of FreeBSD I have created separate jails, one jail is used for the tool I run to organize my media. It sits there and watches websites for new episodes. Which I then obtain, from sources such as purchased DVD’s which are ripped converted to an applicable format and imported into a folder. The tool then imports the episodes and moves them to an archive folder. This is one giant general folder titled archive sitting on a zfs storage pool.
Now it would be enough to point plex to this archive folder. However I go one step further. The organization tool, allows api access, It also monitors an online tv database and checks to see if the show is continuing or ended. I can hook into its database via scripts. I have written a script that when executed looks at every show in the database. The tool looks for several conditions. First condition, is the show continuing or ended, if the show is ended, do I have all the episodes in that show. The script then creates hard links in another directory for each episode placing the show in its appropriate folder and category. The script is run periodically via cron, and several other hooks. I can even type an alias at the shell “upln” and it reorganizes my library.
Plex then has three television library’s each pointed to their appropriate hard linked folder. This allows me to sit down and watch an ended show, a continuing show, or a show that is ended but I know I’m missing episodes for. I’ve tried several other organizational methods in the past this one seems to work the best for me. I’m not opposed to sharing my script, I’m even open to feedback. If there is enough interest, and I find the time, I’ll throw up the script on github with a description of my setup in more detail. Including the script logic.
If anyone does anything similar I’d love to hear about them. Maybe we can get a few iterations of this script written for different programming languages, so its widely applicable to different setups and not just freeBSD.
Let me know if there is any interest.
I downloaded Filebot and did one of my shows. I created a new TV show library on the plex and added just the show I changed and now I get 3 icons labeled with other shows.
Example, the show I edited was Animal Kingdom to F:\TV Shows\Animal Kingdom (2016)\Season 03\Animal Kingdom (2016) - S03E01 - The Killing.avi
This is what i get now
When I play the episode it plays the Animal Kingdom show.
Any ideas how to fix this?
That seems a bit strange… to say the least
So in your new tv library you set the the library path to F:\TV Shows
Did you edit your tv show library and told it to look in F:/TV Shows and not just in F:
I set it to just the animal kingdom(2016) folder since that was the only show I edited. i wanted to make sure it worked before I went and changed all my other show.
Ok, so if you want to set it up a new TV Library as test…
create a new folder at the top level of your F Drive
e.g TV2
Put the new stuff in there, like this
F:\TV2\animal kingdom(2016)
and then set the path in your new TV Library to
F:\TV2
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That did the trick! Thanks for all your help!!
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