TV Shows Folders

General Discussions
1

I have all The Big Bang Theory episodes on my hard drive that is synced with PLEX, but when I go to the folder it is showing all The Friends episodes. When I look in my hard drive, I see the Big Bang Theory shows. What the heck is happening? I have never downloaded The Friends episodes.

2

Due to improper naming and folder organisation, your files were identified as belonging to ‘Friends’.

Preparation if you use mp4 files:
Go to Settings - Server - Agents - Shows - TheTVDB
In there, grab the line ‘Local Media Assets’ with your mouse and drag it downwards, so it ends up being at the bottom of the stack of active agents.

The guide to add tv shows into Plex in full and to ensure future proper ‘matching’:

  1. Look up your show on TheTVDB
  2. Take the title as it is used on TheTVDB. If there is something in parentheses, take that too. If the title contains invalid characters (depends on your file system), like § : % *, simply leave them out.
  3. Check the naming and the folder structure of your show. Name the top folder of the show exactly after the title on TheTVDB. No abbreviations. No additional subfolders. No aliases.
  4. Name the episode files according to the above linked naming guide. Use the same title as for the top folder. Show's Title - s01e01 - additional info.ext (’- additional info’ can be left out)
  5. After you corrected the naming and folder structure, perform the Plex Dance with all files for this show.

Filebot supports you renaming a full show’s worth of files and folders.

3

Wow. This seems so out of my realm of expertise. I guess I should have looked at this forum before putting down $149.

4

Don’t be intimidated. It is easy, once you get behind it:

TV Shows /
   The Big Bang Theory /
      Season 01 /
         The Big Bang Theory - s01e01 - Pilot.mp4
         The Big Bang Theory - s01e02 - The Big Bran Hypothesis.mp4
         ...
      Season 02 /
         The Big Bang Theory - s02e01 - The Bad Fish Paradigm.mp4
         The Big Bang Theory - s02e02 - The Codpiece Topology.mp4
         ...
      ...