The Fabelmans

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I have added the movie “The Fabelmans” to the media library but it is not showing up in Plex. I even had Plex “scan library”, still no Fabelmans”. This is the first time this has happened even after having added 260 other movies to the library.

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based on the little info we have, this could be many things…

  • missing permissions
  • bad naming (file naming, folder organization), resulting in a bad match
  • unsupported formats (e.g. disc images vs. video files)

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https://support.plex.tv/articles/201543057-why-is-some-of-my-content-not-found/

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Thank you for your help. I renamed the file to “ Fabelmans” and then it appeared in the library. Weird.

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If you don’t name your movies with the date in parentheses, you will start getting a large amount of movies that are matched as duplicates
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/

This will get progressively worse as you add more and more movies

The Fabelmans (2022).mkv

The best method is to add the tmdb or imdb movie id number in with the file inside curly brackets

The Fabelmans (2022) {imdb-tt14208870}.mkv

There are renaming programs like filebot or TinyMediaManager that input all of this info automatically. This is a free version

TV show format
Show Name: ${showTitle} (${showYear}) {tvdb-${showTvdb}}
Season: Season ${seasonNr2}
Episode Name: ${showTitle} (${showYear}) s${seasonNr2}e${episodeNr2} ${episode.title}


Movie format
Folder format: ${title} (${year})
File format ${title} (${year}) {imdb-${imdb}}