New Plex naming convention as of Plex 1.2x
Posted: 08 Oct 2020, 22:22
Plex has changed their naming conventions.
Because of this change I had to change the file names of all of my movie files to remove a hyphen that was causing an issue. When I did this I ran into the same old issues I have been struggling with when using the {Plex} binding and was wondering if anyone had suggestions on how to avoid those in the future.
First Issue. I keep multiple versions of the same movie in the same folder. One may be dubbed and the other original language. One may be Directors Cut and the other Theatrical release and their subtitle files, etc.
Because I use the {Plex} binding to rename these files there can be an issue when I have to rename in bulk where those folders that have more than one copy of a movie or subtitle are appended with CD1 CD2, etc. This isn't an issue when my torrent app runs the post download script because my script will add an index number when files are downloaded at different times, but the GUI sees these files as movie parts every time even though their filenames are different. If I add those "duplicate" movies and their subtitles separately to the GUI then everything works swimmingly and they are not seen by filebot as movie part files.
Anyway, I want to avoid these files being seen as movie parts when they are not and it's difficult to know which folders contain more than one .mp4 or .srt since I have many folders. The advantage of doing this with filebot is its bulk processing capabilities and speed. Looking manually though the renaming results runs counter to that.
Second issue. Plex allows users to add a sub folder under the main movie folder for "Featurettes" "Interviews" "Deleted" movies. I have created sub folders and renamed movie files to conform to Plex's convention but when I am bulk renaming those folders are deleted and those files are renamed according to the main movie and again appended with CD1 CD2, etc.
I have to revert this and it's painstakingly slow. By finding all of the CD1 appended files and looking at their extended attributes and renaming them manually and recreating the sub folders.
It would be helpful to know how the {plex} binding decides what a movie part is and isn't. The only way I have figured out how to get around it is to just not process multiple sets of .mp4 and.srt files from the same folder at the same time. I wish there was a toggle for this multipart movie handling feature that didn't affect other aspects of movie renaming.
Because of this change I had to change the file names of all of my movie files to remove a hyphen that was causing an issue. When I did this I ran into the same old issues I have been struggling with when using the {Plex} binding and was wondering if anyone had suggestions on how to avoid those in the future.
First Issue. I keep multiple versions of the same movie in the same folder. One may be dubbed and the other original language. One may be Directors Cut and the other Theatrical release and their subtitle files, etc.
Because I use the {Plex} binding to rename these files there can be an issue when I have to rename in bulk where those folders that have more than one copy of a movie or subtitle are appended with CD1 CD2, etc. This isn't an issue when my torrent app runs the post download script because my script will add an index number when files are downloaded at different times, but the GUI sees these files as movie parts every time even though their filenames are different. If I add those "duplicate" movies and their subtitles separately to the GUI then everything works swimmingly and they are not seen by filebot as movie part files.
Anyway, I want to avoid these files being seen as movie parts when they are not and it's difficult to know which folders contain more than one .mp4 or .srt since I have many folders. The advantage of doing this with filebot is its bulk processing capabilities and speed. Looking manually though the renaming results runs counter to that.
Second issue. Plex allows users to add a sub folder under the main movie folder for "Featurettes" "Interviews" "Deleted" movies. I have created sub folders and renamed movie files to conform to Plex's convention but when I am bulk renaming those folders are deleted and those files are renamed according to the main movie and again appended with CD1 CD2, etc.
I have to revert this and it's painstakingly slow. By finding all of the CD1 appended files and looking at their extended attributes and renaming them manually and recreating the sub folders.
It would be helpful to know how the {plex} binding decides what a movie part is and isn't. The only way I have figured out how to get around it is to just not process multiple sets of .mp4 and.srt files from the same folder at the same time. I wish there was a toggle for this multipart movie handling feature that didn't affect other aspects of movie renaming.