The_Lanbone
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I'm having some trouble getting some of my stuff to show up in my Plex media library, I'm wondering if anyone can help me out. I've got a pretty big library of movies, tv, and racing (F1 & WEC...it's a bit of an obsession). My movies and TV shows are all fine, Plex found them without issue, but my racing folders are an absolute mess and I can't figure out why. I've spent the last few days on the Plex forums and reddit threads that discuss the specifics of how Plex needs files named, formats, etc. but I'm still at a loss as to why I can't get these files to show up.
Here's an example I was trying to work on last night: I have the complete 2008 season as well as the complete 2009 season. Both seasons were "acquired digitally"... and not renamed at all. The complete 2008 season shows up just fine, but none of the 2009 races show up in the Plex library.
I've tried changing the media agents for both whole library, and just the 'Racing' folder from Personal Media Shows to both TheTVDB, and The Movie Database. Neither of these seemed to do anything so I changed them back to Personal Media Shows.
This is what the file structure looks like on my PC
And this is how it appears on Plex
This is what both the 2008 and 2009 folders look like, as well as what Plex shows for the 2008 season
And finally just for reference:
Inside the 2009 season folder I tried creating individual folders for each race, exactly how the 2008 season folder is setup, but this did nothing. Late last night it hit me that the big difference between the 2 folders is that 2009 is all .ts files while the 2008 folder is all .mp4 files. I threw a few 2009 races into Adobe Media Encoder and converted them to .mp4 files thinking that would solve the problem, but I was wrong again. I'm officially stumped. Can anyone help or offer suggestions?
Here's an example I was trying to work on last night: I have the complete 2008 season as well as the complete 2009 season. Both seasons were "acquired digitally"... and not renamed at all. The complete 2008 season shows up just fine, but none of the 2009 races show up in the Plex library.
I've tried changing the media agents for both whole library, and just the 'Racing' folder from Personal Media Shows to both TheTVDB, and The Movie Database. Neither of these seemed to do anything so I changed them back to Personal Media Shows.
This is what the file structure looks like on my PC

And this is how it appears on Plex

This is what both the 2008 and 2009 folders look like, as well as what Plex shows for the 2008 season


And finally just for reference:

Inside the 2009 season folder I tried creating individual folders for each race, exactly how the 2008 season folder is setup, but this did nothing. Late last night it hit me that the big difference between the 2 folders is that 2009 is all .ts files while the 2008 folder is all .mp4 files. I threw a few 2009 races into Adobe Media Encoder and converted them to .mp4 files thinking that would solve the problem, but I was wrong again. I'm officially stumped. Can anyone help or offer suggestions?