Plex Naming Schemes

[rednoah]

Plex Naming Standard

Plex has strict standards for naming and organizing your media files.

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Movies/Avatar (2009)/Avatar (2009)
TV Shows/Alias/Season 01/Alias - S01E01 - Truth Be Told

The {plex} binding which will give you the appropriate Plex path for movies, TV episodes, Anime episodes and music files:

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{plex}

Since the {plex} binding will give you a File object, it's easy to reuse some path components and omit others. {plex.name} and {plex.tail} are particularly useful if you want to rename files in place or if you want the {plex} path without the top-level Movies or TV Shows folder.


e.g. Avatar (2009)

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{plex.name}

e.g. Firefly/Season 01/Firefly - S01E01 - Serenity

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{plex.tail}

e.g. Firefly/Firefly - S01E01 - Serenity

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{plex[1]}/{plex[3]}

e.g. Movies/Avatar (2009)/Avatar (2009) by James Cameron [720p, x264, AC3]

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{plex.derive{" by $director"}{" [$vf, $vc, $ac]"}}

Kodi Naming Standard

The {kodi} binding (requires FileBot 4.8.5) and the {plex} binding work exactly the same, with slightly different implementation details, e.g. SxE formatting and multi-episode formatting.



Custom Naming Schemes

If you need to make very specific customizations to the standard Plex naming scheme, you'll want you write your own format expression so you have full control over all the bits and pieces. You can get started by copying the following examples and modifying them to your liking.

Movies

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Movies/{n} ({y})/{n} ({y}){' CD'+pi}{'.'+lang}

TV Series

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TV Shows/{n}/{episode.special ? 'Specials' : 'Season '+s.pad(2)}/{n} - {episode.special ? 'S00E'+special.pad(2) : s00e00} - {t.replaceAll(/[`´‘’ʻ]/, /'/).replaceAll(/[!?.]+$/).replacePart(', Part $1')}{'.'+lang}

Anime

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Anime/{primaryTitle}/{primaryTitle} - {sxe} - {t.replaceAll(/[!?.]+$/).replaceAll(/[`´‘’ʻ]/, /'/).replacePart(', Part $1')}

Music

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Music/{n}/{album+'/'}{pi.pad(2)+'. '}{artist} - {t}

[Gruff10]

Hi,

NOOB here

Using

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{plex.derive{" [$vf.$vc.$ac]"}}

I find that the TV series 24 (Twenty Four) fails because the fullstops in its episode titles are being replaced (see output below).

https://ibb.co/87vTcrF

How can I get around this?

Thanks.

[rednoah]

Yes, the {plex} format does indeed strip trailing "." characters from the Plex path. In your case, that's unnecessary, but the {plex} binding can't know that.

e.g.

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$ filebot -list --q 24 --format {plex} --filter "s == 1 && e <= 3"
TV Shows/24/Season 01/24 - S01E01 - 12.00 A.M. - 1.00 A.M
TV Shows/24/Season 01/24 - S01E02 - 1.00 A.M. - 2.00 A.M
TV Shows/24/Season 01/24 - S01E03 - 2.00 A.M. - 3.00 A.M

If want to preserve the trailing "." then you can use a full custom format such as this:

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TV Shows/{n}/Season {s.pad 2}/{n} - {s00e00} - {t} [{vf}.{vc}.{ac}]

[Gruff10]

Thanks. That worked, though the ":"s in the episode titles are a pain as well. At least the Validate button clears them

[rednoah]

Additional customizations like this will do the job:

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{n.colon(' - ')}

The {plex} format does take care of these corner cases already, and if you need all of those but if you want more control, then you can start with a format such as this, and then modify it to your needs:

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TV Shows/{n}/{episode.special ? 'Specials' : 'Season '+s.pad(2)}/{n} - {episode.special ? 'S00E'+special.pad(2) : s00e00} - {t.replaceAll(/[`´‘’ʻ]/, /'/).replaceAll(/[!?.]+$/).replacePart(', Part $1')}{'.'+lang}

The .replaceAll(/[!?.]+$/) bit is responsible for removing trailing !?. so you could just cut that bit.

[Kopernikus]

Hi,

If I use:

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{plex.derive {" [$vf.$vc.$ac]"}}

I get

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/volume1/video/Movies/xXx (2002)/xXx (2002) [480p.x264.AC3].mkv

but how to I get

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/volume1/video/Movies/xXx (2002) [480p.x264.AC3]/xXx (2002) [480p.x264.AC3].mkv

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/volume1/video/Movies/xXx (2002) [480p.x264.AC3]/xXx (2002).mkv

I want to use the Plex format, but to now the video format so I now for example when I replace a SD by HD version of the same movie.

Thx

[rednoah]

There's no convenience method for this particular use case.

You'll either have to
(A) write your own custom format without using the {plex} binding at all, or
(B) write your own custom format using bits and pieces of the {plex} binding as necessary.

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Movies/{plex[1]}{" [$vf.$vc.$ac]"}/{plex[2]}{" [$vf.$vc.$ac]"}

Either way, you'll no longer be strictly adhering to the Plex naming scheme, although it'll probably work.