

You (after naming things appropriately) may need to perform the Plex Dance to get Plex to properly recognize them if you already have tried putting them in Plex. That is the basics of how to fix the problem and make it all work. You can also use this same naming scheme to match TV shows to metadata from TheMovieDB instead of TheTVDB (TMDB has both tv shows and movies, TVDB only has TV), just keep in mind that numbering is not universal, so an episode on each site may have different numbering (depending on how they have named them on their respective websites.) Also, if your show (per what is listed on TheTVDB) has seasons based on year, or episodes based on date instead of numerical order, refer to that article above as the naming will differ. If the TV has a Special (as listed on TheTVDB), substitute a folder called Specials instead of Season #, and the episode numbering as S00 instead of S01. Should you wish it for organizational purposes, or to facilitate using extras, subtitles, or other files in conjunction with the movie, you can put them in a similarly named sub folder: Movies\Movie Name (year)\Movie Name (year).extįor TV Shows, it is similar: TV Shows\Show Name\Season 01\Show Name - S01E01 - Episode Title.ext ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )įor movies, your files and folders must be named thusly: Movies\Movie Name (year).ext These 4 links are your fuckin' bibles when it comes to Plex (unless if you are using another scanner, in which case. These use the naming and ordering that is set up on TheTVDB and TheMovieDB respectively. Plex's Naming Requirements for Movies/Stand Up Comedy/Non-episodic Content

Plex's Naming Requirements for TV Shows/Anime/Episodic Content

The details for how to fix your problem are: A lot of posts on this sub every day attest to that. That is alright, quite literally no one does. In 99% of cases, this issue occurs because you have not RTFM. This guide that I wrote while baked out of my mind will quickly walk you through how to resolve this issue. It seems you are having problems with Plex either not recognizing your files, not ordering them properly, not gathering metadata, or a similar issue.
