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31 How To Label Tv Shows For Plex

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Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Choose movies as the type and browse to the movies folder.

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How to label tv shows for plex. By default plex uses a tool known as a scraper to scrape. In this video i explain the methods i use to rip copy my tv series dvds so that they can be read into the plex media server. You can adjust the sort label accordingly but still have it displayed correctly with the proper label.

Multiple episodes in a single file. Plex can automatically label your media and apply artwork to it but sometimes theres no substitute for your hand picked movie and tv show artwork. Inside your movies folder put your movie files you can even put each one in its own folder inside the movies folder.

And if the media doesnt appear there or is formatted differently it wont appear properly in plex. The show will be available to play in a plex app but wont have any special metadata gathered such as a summary. Next click more button the ellipses in the top right corner of the screen.

That said plex isnt without its quirks and one of them is plexs naming conventions for tv shows and movies. Go to your plex media server web app page and add a new library collection by pressing the plus button. If this is an individual episode or a movie you can edit the individual shows or movies and you have a label and a sort label.

Click on a movie or tv show that shows the wrong metadata be sure to click on the poster itself and not the play button or any of the settings buttons. Luckily theres a workaround. Thankfully you can easily use your own media assets with your plex collection.

If a single file covers more than one episode name it as follows. If this is an entire tv season then im not sure how you would do that. The plex media server is smart software that makes playing movies tv shows and press j to jump to the feed.

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