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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 Stacked or Multi-Part 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 'Stacked' 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

Excluding Content

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

In this Section

  • Naming your Movie media files
  • Naming and Organizing TV Shows
  • Naming and Organizing Music Media
  • Naming and Organizing Personal Media
  • Using Subtitles
  • Excluding Content
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