Plex does not respect .plexmatch for personal videos

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.28.2.6151
Player Version#: 1.53.1.3225-c0bc6cc4 (Plex for Mac)

Hi there, I tried to use plex to organize learning materials and I do not want to change video filenames. I learned about .plexmatch from https://support.plex.tv/articles/plexmatch/ , but got no luck after a few trials.

There are some verbose info:

Library Type: TV Shows
Agent: Personal Media Shows with Local Media Assets(TV) checked

Here is the video files structure I created:

demo_show
└── Season 01
    ├── .plexmatch
    ├── AVL Trees & Rotations.mp4
    ├── All Nodes Distance K In A Binary Tree.mp4
    ├── An InDepth Algorithmic Analysis of Bubble Sort.mp4
    └── Asymptotic Bounding.mp4

Here is the .plexmatch I created:

Year: 2022
Season: 1

ep:s1e1:AVL Trees & Rotations.mp4
ep:s1e2:All Nodes Distance K In A Binary Tree.mp4
ep:s1e3:An InDepth Algorithmic Analysis of Bubble Sort.mp4
ep:s1e4:Asymptotic Bounding.mp4

And Plex does not recognize this show (demo_show) at all. Don’t know what’s the issue.

Thank you in advance!

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Only the Plex TV Series agent considers .plexmatch files. It’s supposed to help matching content – not to organize an unstructured list of files. If you want to organize that personal media show, you might want to look into maintaining some embedded metadata.

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Thank you for pointing it out.

BTW, is there any doc about the embedded metadata that Plex will respect?

I do embedded title in videos and Plex can recognize that as expected. I don’t know what’s the correct metadata for Season and Episode for Plex.

Thank you in advance!

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I’m not aware of a conclusive document. IIRC there’s been a few threads where users pointed out which fields they set using specific apps. Some years ago I filled all supported metadata fields in a metadata editor with some recognizable fake data and checked which fields showed up in Plex.

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To add to Tom,

I’ve had best success when:

  1. I remove all embedded metadata
  2. I use a naming tool (FileBot, TheRenamer, TinyMediaManager, etc) and name the directories and files to what PMS expects.

When my names are perfect, which the tools can do for you, I’ve never had a miss.

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