Plex Documentation → Your Media → Naming & Organizing TV Show Files
It is a naming convention issue.
- 01x01 is not supported.
- Plex ignores information in square brackets
Rename per Plex documentation:
/TV Shows/Young Rock (2021)/Season 01/Young Rock (2021) s01e01 Working the Gimmick.mkv
You may have to Plex Dance the series after renaming.
From Naming & Organizing TV Show Files
Standard, Season-Based Shows
Most television shows have episodes organized into seasons. To name season-based shows create files with the season and episode notation sXXeXX:
- /TV Shows/ShowName/Season 02/ShowName – s02e17 – Optional_Info.ext
This is only an example. 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 It does not matter if you use dashes, dots or just spaces.
Helpful tools:
Many people use Filebot. It is quite powerful and can rename an entire library in minutes.
Tiny Media Manager is also very useful, and has a free version. 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.
