Naming & Organizing Your TV Show Files
Follow Plex naming requirements, then Plex Dance the show.
/TV Shows <- Folder added to TV Show library, name does not matter
.../King of the Hill (1997) <- Show_Name (year)
....../Season 10 <- "Season" in English, two digits for year
........./King of the Hill (1997) - s10e01 - Hank's on Board.mkv <- sXXeYY required
From Naming & Organizing Your TV Show Files:
The most important bit in the file name is the appropriate season and episode number notation s02e17 which in this example means Season 2 Episode 17.
If you need to rename many files:
Many people use Filebot. It is quite powerful and can rename an entire library in minutes.
Tiny Media Manager is also very useful, and free. I’ve used it on several movies with the pattern ${title} (${year}) {imdb-${imdb}}. You can easily set a pattern for TV shows that matches Plex’s naming standards.
PowerRenamer in Microsoft Power Tools is helpful for simple renaming with pattern matches or regular expressions. It makes quick work of tasks such as adding a year to file names, removing undesirable text from multiple files, etc. Simple example: Rip a TV show with MakeMKV and all the episodes have _tXX at the end. You can remove it from all episodes in just a few seconds.
