Why are so many of my shows/movies not appearing in Plex?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: DSM 7.1-42661 Update 4
Player Version#: Version 4.89.1

I have about a hundred media files that are inconsistently being omitted or wrongly displaying on my Plex server.

Take for instance Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan [1980]

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Until I manually edited the title on my Plex server, it was showing up as the TV Show Miss Marple. And while I manually edited the Plex server info, it still only shows that I have four episodes instead of 13.

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Many other shows just plain won’t show in Plex. How do I correct this?

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Plex uses a standard naming format.

When adhered to, PMS will get it right every time.

You probably have some work to do. An automated renaming tool will help you a great deal if you have a lot of media (we all get to that level at some point :slight_smile: )

The articles below show the details.

The short form TL;DR is:

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TV Series:

Series Name/
   Season 01/
     Series Name - S01E01 - optional title here.ext

S01E01 stands for Season 1 - Episode 1 . It is an unambiguous defacto standard for media servers.

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Movies: (you store the extras, interviews, behindthescenes, etc with each movie)

Movie (Year)/
  Movie (Year).ext
  Some_extra_here-TypeOfExtra.ext

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If you want to save yourself a lot of time I would recommend using Download - tinyMediaManager and use :

Episode format:
${showTitle} - S${seasonNr2}E${episodeNr2} - ${title}

Folder format:
${showTitle} (${showYear}) {tvdb-${tvShow.ids.tvdb}}/Season ${seasonNr2}

FYI using Part X in a file name plex things they are parts of the same episode. Not different episodes.

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Thanks. Is there a crawler function that automatically renames the media, or would I still have to manually identify each folder or file?

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I use FileBot. It’s a paid program.

There are others . I believe some use " Tiny Media Manager"

As long as you set the renaming templates (rules) to Plex standard, you’ll be in good shape.

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These are usually drag & drop. You have to verify the results offered match what you have. If it were totally automatic then Plex would have been able to match.

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@ChuckPa I’ve used TMM to embed metadata and jpgs. But still some items are not showing on Plex. Here are several more items I found that are not appearing in Plex.

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I am going to also show some of the folders here so you can know what’s going on. Take First Civilizations.

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TMM provided metadata for that show:

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Yet it doesn’t appear. Why?

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Should be named

(TV folder)

First Civilizations (2018)

Season 01

First Civilizations (2018) S01e01 – War [720p HDTV].mp4.

First Civilizations (2018) S01e01 – War [720p HDTV].jpg

First Civilizations (2018) S01e02 – Religion [720p HDTV].mp4

Ect….

Plex doesn’t like the “PBS” or the “Series 1 Part 1”

It needs to be s01e01 format

If named properly all the metadata in that folder you have will be pulled automatically by Plex

The date (2018) isn’t always necessary but it’s a good practice to follow. The square brackets [720p HDTV] let’s Plex know to ignore that information so it doesn’t conflict with the name of the actual show

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