Plex don't automatically pick up externally added subtitles

[pshanew]

@JuiceWSA

Let’s hope he responds well to this one.

We’ll see.

@Dragonsider

But the following command causes Plex Media Scanner to refresh the whole section (library) instead of just the directory path.

/path/to/Plex Media Scanner --scan --refresh --force --section ## --directory /my/directory/path/

So is there any way to automatically pick up new externally added subtitles for a specific show?

Instead of specifying a directory for it to refresh, try specifying the show’s item ID. You can find the Id by doing something similar to the following:

Plex Media Scanner --list --section XX

This will list all the shows and their item IDs in that section. You could then do something like:

Plex Media Scanner --refresh --section XX --item YY

This should cause the metadata for the specific show to be refreshed. You can try adding --scan and --analyze in there too, but I don’t think they should be necessary.