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Media Preparation

It’s important that your media files and library folders are named and organized in a way Plex can recognize. This guide outlines how this is done. Plex also has extensive support for automatically fetching and using subtitles.

• Naming your Movie media files

  • Naming Movie files
  • Naming Multi-File Movies
  • Multi-Version Movies
  • Local Media Assets – Movies
  • ISO, IMG, and Video_TS Movie files

• Naming and Organizing TV Shows

  • Naming ‘Series’ & ‘Season’ Based TV Shows
  • Naming ‘Date’ based TV Shows
  • Naming Multi-File TV Show Episodes
  • Naming TV Show ‘Specials’
  • Naming TV Mini-Series
  • Local Media Assets – TV Shows

• Naming and Organizing Music Media

  • Adding Music Media From Folders
  • Adding Local Artist and Music Videos
  • Adding Local Lyrics
  • Identifying Music Media Using Embedded Metadata

• Naming and Organizing Personal Media

  • Personal Media Movies
  • Naming Home Series Media

• Using Subtitles

  • Description
  • Fetching Internet Sourced & Using Your Own Subtitle Files
  • Configuring Subtitle Support
  • Adding Local Subtitles to Your Media
  • Troubleshooting Subtitles
  • On-Demand Subtitle Search

• Excluding Content

  • Excluding New Content with .plexignore
  • Special Keyword File/Folder Exclusion