I have a “TV” library where I organize “shows” by year for an activity called drum corps. Every year is a different “season” and I have 12 episodes per year, for the top 12 finalist groups.
Problem is, one show has a date range in its title, so Plex picks up this one file and turns it into 76 episodes. How can I force Plex to ignore that? I want to “unspilt” the episodes or something. I know I could rename the file, but I also have these shows in an FTP and I would really prefer to keep the titles accurate.
How can I do this?
Sorry if this is the wrong section to make this thread. The new forum structure is really stupid. There should be a generic “server” or help forum or something.
An ‘Other Videos’ library is not a ‘tv shows’ library.
A ‘tv shows’ library which doesn’t try to match and find online metadata is also possible: simply Edit your library(s), go to the ‘Advanced’ tab and set ‘Agent’ to ‘Personal Media Shows’
It’s not actually true that naming needs to be that strict. For example, my drum corps library is organized like this:
/Media
/Drum Corps
/2019
/01 Corps Name - Show Title.mkv
/02 Corps Name - Show Title.mkv
etc.
Works fine for the most part. I have to manually add metadata anyway because I use Personal Media Shows as the agent.
Others Videos doesn’t work for me because I do want the library organized by year. Other Videos just throws everything together in a giant mess of video files. For this library, I still want individual seasons for each year, with individual episodes inside ordered by each group’s finals placement.
This is how my videos show up in Plex using a TV Shows library with Personal Media Show agent and the above naming scheme:
I obviously dislike how the shows are listed as “S1E1” and “Episode 1” and would vastly prefer “1st” to indicate placement (or “1st - 99.99” with the score, etc.), but Plex doesn’t seem equipped to give me something like that so I’ve been making do.
As you can see though, 2005 is showing 88 episodes because one of the show titles is “Russia: Revolution - Evolution, 1917-1991” and that is confusing Plex something fierce. I want Plex to somehow ignore that date range so that I can keep the actual show title in the file name.
Is this possible? If not… it really should be. Best case scenario would be a separate library type for sports events. The TV library type isn’t perfect for drum corps, but it’s the best option Plex has.
@OttoKerner I tried to quote your reply as well but I couldn’t figure it out, I actually only managed the above quote on accident. Good lord this forum UI is confusing.
@trumpy81 …so there’s no actual solution, then? You could’ve just led with that.
Very frustrating that Plex still doesn’t have a nice, easy way to organize my drum corps library after all these years. There really needs to be a separate library type for just this type of purpose.
@trumpy81 it’s like you can’t read. Other Videos isn’t a valid option since it offers no way to organize videos beyond a giant gaggle of videos. It’s worthless. Your other “option” isn’t actually an option since the entire purpose of creating this thread was to find a way to keep the show titles in the file names. I obviously already knew I could just change the file names to nonsense and make the content look right in Plex. The issue is the files are also on an FTP so I would like to keep the standard naming convention for musical performances. As I mentioned in the first post.
So you’ve presented no actual solutions that work in my situation. Which is fine, it’s not your fault, you’re just a volunteer. It’s the Plex devs who have failed me here for years now. But you could save a lot of wasted time by just coming out and saying that instead of acting like there’s an actual fix here.
Right. You could’ve just said that then. “No, there is no way to do what you want.”
…because I already knew the other “solutions.” I’ve been using Plex for many years. I posted here hoping for an unconventional fix that I might not know about. Pasting the standard canned responses isn’t helpful.
