

While Plex Media Server is easy to use, it takes a little care to set it up properly. By using the recommended format, Plex will look up the needed information then identify the content accurately, helping you a maintain a more organized, useable Plex for music, movies, TV shows, and other content. Many MP3 will include metadata so you won’t have to do anything, others do not. Separate albums and add tracks if they are separate. The same approach applies to music as TV shows. Foo Fighters - There is Nothing Left to Lose When you’ve had your Plex for a while the mislabeling and filing really starts to add up to some confusion and more time than you’d likely want to spend searching for shows and movies.Ġ1 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V).m4a TV shows, movies, and music should always have their own folders and none should appear in the other’s folder to avoid confusion. When uploading media to your Plex Media Server, you need to use a specific naming convention to enable the system to categorize and identify the media correctly. And if the media doesn’t appear there, or is formatted differently, it won’t appear properly in Plex. Plex uses the as the bases for naming shows. That said, Plex isn’t without its quirks and one of them is Plex’s naming conventions for TV shows and movies. Plex is notable as a platform with an intuitive User Interface (UI), delivering nearly seamless performance and streaming. At TechJunkie, we write a lot about Plex as it continues to be an outstanding system for organizing your media library. Plex makes media manageable and does an excellent job of curating content from multiple sources, organizing it, streaming it to a range of devices, making it available for you to enjoy at home.
