STar Trek Picard S00E01 Short Trek is appearing as Star Trek Voyager S00E01

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STar Trek Picard S00E01 Short Trek is appearing as Star Trek Voyager S00E01. I have triple checked the naming convention and everything is correct, and the Picard S00E01 is in the Specials Folder in the Picard - 2020 folder, but in Plex it just keeps appearing in the Voyager section under their Specials folder. Any thoughts?

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Shouldn’t the naming be:

TV Shows
  Star Trek Picard (2020)
    Season 00
      Star Trek Picard (2020) - s00e01 - Short Trek.ext

As per Star Trek: Picard - Aired Order - All Seasons - TheTVDB.com (e.g. not Picard - 2020 or Star Trek Picard - 2020etc.)

Edit:
if the Plex is matching Picard as Star Trek Voyager this implies you might deal with embedded metadata (assuming your files are mp4/m4v)

Edit 2:
Star Trek Picard should do the job as well (instead of Star Trek Picard (2020))… so will Specials instead of Season 00
:wink:

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Thank you very much, this is the first time the “Star Trek - Show - year” convention hasn’t worked for me. but your convention worked. I have all of the other shows and their specials as well and none of them overlap. Again thank you for the help!

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not so much “my” convention but the Plex naming schema / convention :wink:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/

Bonus remark:
you should check out your file Star Trek - Voyager - S01E01&E02 - Caretaker.ext… Plex wants your & to be a -!!

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Sorry wasn’t trying to imply, but this is the convention they have been working with for the four years I have been running my server. Have they changed it? Will I have to go through and rename every episode of shows that I have?

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It hasn’t changed. But even when deviating from the schema you can run lucky… until you don’t. :wink:

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I know that :slight_smile: that is why I have have been using the schema that Plex put forth, and if Plex is now saying that & have to be - , then the schema has been changed because that’s what I used to use when I started out with my plex server, it screwed up everything and I had to go through and ampersand the dashes. it was a three month nightmare.

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You could check out FileBot.
I take it from your screenthos that you’re on a Mac… you could also check out the built-in mass-renaming feature in Finder:

  1. Mark all files in that folder
  2. Click Rename X Files from the context menu
  3. select Replace Text and go for Search = Wrong Show Name S01E and Replace by Correct Show Name (Year) - S01E`
  4. Click Rename

In subsequent folders, Finder rememberers your settings… so you only need to adjust e.g. the season number. Helped me to fix my file names within a few minutes (which would have been some hours before).
Don’t forget to Plex Dance when done :wink:

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Lenovo, WIndows 10 build, is there a good cheap (or free) software recommended for PC use? I use Media Monkey for most of the tag/labelling it has some tools that help but yeah my library has gotten big enough where if Plex makes a change in schema it will be a weeks or month long renaming project. Also, I tried finding the page I used to refer to for Series naming and it now longer exists ( Naming ‘Series’ & ‘Season’ Based TV Shows – Plex but the schema that I have used all these years came from there.

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And what is “Plex Dance”?

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Sorry… my eyes apparently are on strike after my day at work :stuck_out_tongue:
FileBot should be able to do that for you on Windows.

“Plex Dance” is a term of making Plex forget that it already knows your files and force it to actually rescan / rematch the files.

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Ohhhhh!! I have been doing the Dance for so many years and never even knew it had a name LOLOL Thank you Tom!!

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