Title cards for TV series

Plex Media Server
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I am wanting to do title cards for my tv series… I see a bunch from reddit that I’d liek to use.

1). I used filebot to rename my files > Arrow - 3x01 - The Calm
2). the title card if named: Arrow.S03E01.The Calm-thumb
3). I placed the title card in the same folder as my season 3 files
4). use personal media as the scanner,
5). did a metadata refresh, but does not auto show the title cards still shows the screenshots

Have I missed something??

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Plex should be able to obtain those titles automatically from its metadata sources, but if they don’t exist or you want to add personalized titles make sure you have MP4 containers and use the software called MP3tag to add those titles to the files. After that in your library advanced tab check Prefer local metadata and refresh metadata.

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And if you want to add show/season/background/etc artwork:

Plex Documentation → Your Media → TV Show Files (Naming and Organizing)

Example:

/Arrow
../show.jpg
../Season 03
..../season03.jpg
..../Arrow - s03e01 - The Calm.ext
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not working…
here are the screenshots:::

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I do a metadata refresh…does not shw-up..what am I missing

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Edit your library and in the advanced tab enable Local Assets

6

Use Plex recommended naming.

Use the new TV Show scanner.

If you are using the old Plex TV show scanner, then migrate to the new scanner: Migrating a TV library to use the new Plex TV Series Agent/Scanner

This works for me:
Picture size obviously needs some work. I used Windows Paint and made two JPG files, one with “Season 01” and the other with “Episode 01” on blank white backgrounds.

Plex Media Server 1.23.5.4862, Windows 10

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I have done this…I see the title card in the selection, but I still have to manually add it…my settings are same as yours

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I’m having the same issue. I could see it and add it manually. So I manually did it for several shows, and now the plex tv series agent upgraded and all that manual work is down the drain. UGH!

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I found the issue and managed a fix.

  1. Copy the images from the server to the computer, then chmod 664 all the images and copy them back to their respective folders.
  2. Then, in your server, in the parent directory of the TV Show, create a file called .plexignore, and add that TV Show’s folder path to that .plexignore file.
  3. Next, go into the plex app, scan the TV show’s library, and that TV show should disappear.
  4. Then, go into Settings > Troubleshooting, and click the button Clean Bundles.
  5. Remove the TV Show path from the previous steps’ .plexignore file.
  6. In the plex app, scan the TV Show’s library again.
  7. Now all images should show correctly.

I’m going to be writing a script to do this for me. I just did it for one of my TV show’s and it’ll be a hassle to do it for all the others manually.

Hope this helps. Cheers!

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That’s basically verifying the file access permissions (only applicable on Linux-based platforms)
followed by the Plex Dance in a slightly different manner.

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Yeah, it is similar to the plex dance. However, I found that changing the file permissions is what allowed it to work. Correct me if I’m wrong :slight_smile:

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This might very well be the case. After all, the Plex server needs to have access permissions to those local assets.

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