Hello, I’ve been trying to find where Plex is adding Karate Kid - Part 2 and Karate Kid - Part 3 but they seem lumped under Karate Kid - Part 1. I would like to split them out into their own movies as they are, but there is no option apparent for this. How do I force Plex to treat these files each as individual movies, not the same film?
As you can see from the above screen shots, there’s no stacking icon with which to separate them, nor menu option to perform this function. It seems like plex wants to stack them but doesn’t quite really believe that it’s stacked them, when it surely has. Thoughts?
Edit: I’ve already tried renaming the files, and they always end up stacking in this way.
Ok but I’d rather not change this convention as it applies to my entire library, multipart movies are all like this and for the other films which follow this way, there was an option to “Split the stack” so to speak (I forget the official terminology)
How can I force Plex to split this stack? I’d rather not rename my entire library to fit this different convention and I have OCD and cannot have just one title using mismatching conventions. IF I have to rename my entire library, that will be a different project as I have over 1000 films ripped from Blu on this server now.
Is there no way to take the 3 files which are listed in the first screen shot and split them using that same functionality that I’ve used across my library of other titles?
Ok. Weird, I recall having truly multi-part movies (LOTR, Ben-Hur) which would not stack using Part 1, Part 2, but instead had to be “pt1 pt2” specifically, as I had turned up for google. It’s hard to tell what Plex expects since it doesn’t seem uniformly applied across the board.
I’ll keep fiddling then. Thanks.
Edit: (The reason I’m so opposed to renaming them the way that was suggested above, is that now the file listing by filename order will be out of order, and that is my primary source of truth. For example, my primary playback is via Infuse on AppleTV (Non-transcoded, full blu-ray quality,) which goes by filename order, so to have “Item I” and “Item II” they will be in backwards order.)
I’ve solved the issue both in Plex and while conforming to my filename restrictions for my primary application (Infuse), by inserting the years into the filenames. This both aligns with my naming conventions, keeps them in file-order correctly as well as allows Plex to split them.
I will plan then to update my entire collection with years in the filenames. (Hoo-boy.)
I guess you could just try adding the years to your current naming and see if that works, or remove the hyphen, but don’t know if either of those will suit your OCD
Yep - adding the release years into my current filename conventions works on all levels. I’ve just got to go thru some 1,018 titles now and add years into the filenames, and re-fix the metadata for both Plex and Infuse. Fun times. I appreciate your help & time!!
