# Plex does not respect .plexmatch for personal videos

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-does-not-respect-plexmatch-for-personal-videos/810319>\
**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-synology\
**Created:** [September 11, 2022, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-does-not-respect-plexmatch-for-personal-videos/810319 "2022-09-11T06:12:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![peterhessler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/peterhessler/32/287839_2.png) [@peterhessler](https://forums.plex.tv/u/peterhessler)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 6:12am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-does-not-respect-plexmatch-for-personal-videos/810319/1 "2022-09-11T06:12:54Z")

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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/](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:

```auto
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:

```auto
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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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 11:58am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-does-not-respect-plexmatch-for-personal-videos/810319/2 "2022-09-11T11:58:29Z")

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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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**Author:** ![peterhessler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/peterhessler/32/287839_2.png) [@peterhessler](https://forums.plex.tv/u/peterhessler)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-does-not-respect-plexmatch-for-personal-videos/810319/3 "2022-09-11T15:54:03Z")

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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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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-does-not-respect-plexmatch-for-personal-videos/810319/4 "2022-09-11T16:19:17Z")

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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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**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-does-not-respect-plexmatch-for-personal-videos/810319/5 "2022-09-11T19:13:27Z")

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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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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-does-not-respect-plexmatch-for-personal-videos/810319/6 "2022-12-10T19:14:18Z")

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