[Plex] How to handle same movie title, same movie year? Alone (2020)

[image] Naming and organizing your Movie files | Plex Support The scanners and metadata agents used by Plex will work best when your major types of content are separated from... See " Movies in Their Own Folders"

[image] dane22: See " Movies in Their Own Folders" I know that post… Doesn’t say anything about my question…

[image] nydave69: Doesn’t say anything about my question… You can add the imdb ID to the folder and/or filename !

That is what I was thinking but want to use whatever standard that Plex would use. There are a number of movies that fall into that category. I was using the edition tag to separate them and then have Plex split the movies. That is not ideal. Could you put the question to Plex mgmt and see what s…

[image] nydave69: Could you put the question to Plex mgmt and see what standard they are going to implement. Please read the article, where they tell you the std! Like: `/Batman Begins (2005) {imdb-tt0372784}/ Batman Begins (2005) {imdb-tt0372784}.mp4` Also note, that square brackets mean…

[image] dane22: Please read the article, where they tell you the std! I would, where is that article?

Ok found it… I’ve read that article at least 5 time today and didn’t see that part. /Batman Begins (2005) {imdb-tt0372784} Batman Begins (2005) {imdb-tt0372784}.mp4 2 questions, Is the imdb- required? and dose one have to use the { curly brackets verses ( bracket… If I’m going to start renami…

[image] dane22: `/Batman Begins (2005) {imdb-tt0372784}/ Batman Begins (2005) {imdb-tt0372784}.mp4` On a side note, you might let the maintainers of the KB pages know that the ‘/’ between the folder name and the filename is missing: [image]

[image] nydave69: Is the imdb- required? Yes, since can also be tmdb if you use the movie database [image] nydave69: and dose one have to use the { curly brackets verses ( bracket… Yes, as outlined in the article

Thanks, will do, and nicely spotted :wink:

[Plex] How to handle same movie title, same movie year?

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