This results in Plex showing the episode with the appropriate title. The Extended Personal Media scanner and agent allow the user to specific an index number after the date to specify that the episode is different.
The Plex Series Scanner will see these as the same episode and will give them the same episode title. An example of where this might be used in storing multiple NFL games in a directory with the same date. With this plug-in it is possible to have multiple shows on the same date. The season number, episode number and episode title would be parse from the names. The above example would result in shows with Christmas and Grandma as the show titles. Grandma - Grandma's 75th birthday party.m4v Grandma - Grandma's 77th birthday party.m4v
What this means is that you could put all of your files in the same folder as long as the file name format looks like the following: The season number, episode number and episode title would be parsed from the names.Īdditionally the scanner and metadata agent also support unstructured content as well. The above example would result in a show with Christmas as the show title. If the season title is specified it should go in the season description. If an index value is not specified then a one (1) is automatically appended to the end of the episode number.Ĭhristmas - 01-07-2010 - Getting Ready.m4vĬhristmas - Stuffing_the_Stockings.m4vĬ.m4v
The episode number is the day of the year in which the episode is dated plus the optional index value. This results in it being sorted correctly in all Plex user interfaces. One major difference between the Extended Media Shows scanner and the Plex Series Scanner is that the Extended Media Shows scanner creates episode numbers for all of the date-based media. The agent expects the files to follow the naming conventions for personal media that are outlined in the Plex documentation. The meta data agent sets the summary details on the episode. It works in conjunction with the Extended Personal Media Scanner to scan personal media shows. This is a Metadata Agent for personal media files.
See the instructions on this page for installing the scanner. This metadata agent should be used with the Extended Personal Media Scanner found here.