Possible to mass edit filenames?

Neil_Jones

Plex does "just work".

If you have to bodge the arrangement of your files to get Plex to register what it should be seeing then it may interest you to know TVDB is a legacy scraper for Plex and the more recent one uses The Movie Database (which will return TV shows never mind what the title says).  You may want to change your scraper.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200241558-agents/

B0bbyEwing

facade said:

I've been wrestling with the vagaries of plex for a few months now

It is very annoying when you are lead to believe that it just works.

I usually end up over at tvdb to get the number codes for some series to add to the folder names in an effort to get them recognised.

Their special episode numbers S00E01 etc. are usually one out compared to plex too.

The latest annoyance is I sometimes get a pop-up dire warning that I'm trying to play an HDR file, and it is transcoding to deliberately make the colours wrong (but I can buy a plex pass to change the colours back).

It is annoying because 1) my TV can do eye searing HDR so it doesn't need to transcode 2) the shield can output HDR 3) the file isn't HDR in the first place!

Ahh another Shield user.

Wonder if they'll replace/upgrade it with anything. It's been a while now.
Very happy with  my Shield. I had to send the first one back because it went duff after only about 2 months. IIRC it just wouldn't turn on & all their tech support wouldn't turn it on either.

This second one has been fine except for needing a new power supply less than 12 months in. Aside from that, it will randomly hang from time to time so I'll need to unplug & re-plug.

But it does what it does well.

fenlander_uk

FreeCommander XE - a free 2-pane file manager for Windows - makes it straightforward to do just about anything with filenames, including all the multiple renaming you describe above. I say 'straightforward' rather than 'easy' because there is inevitably a learning curve, but it's well worth the effort.