Another extras naming question

[Chiefmas 40]

I'm re-configuring some of my movie extras in a way that I think, based on reading another pretty recent thread, and the wiki, will work, but I'm not clear on a part of it.

So first up, all my movies are collected in a movie per folder. For extras and such, I used the Plex appeneded names, not the subfolders. Since subfolders seem to be the supported mechanism covered by both, I'll move to those as I find them. The other thread, Luke mentions that naming extensions are supported, but only if the movie is in it's own folder(which mine are). It wasn't clear if that meant that the extra itself still had to be in the proper subfolder, or if it could be next to the movie, with the naming extension and it should work.

Right now, since I'm using extensions, and movies are grouped by folders already, it doesn't seem like adjacent works...

so, under Emby, which of these is valid:

A:

movie\movie.mp4
movie\bts-behindthescenes.mp4

B:

movie\movie.mp4
movie\Behind The Scenes\bts-behindthescenes.mp4

C:

movie\movie.mp4
movie\Behind The Scenes\bts.mp4

The other thread, it sounded like A and B might be valid, but the wiki suggests only C is valid.

B sorta works I guess, or rather, it works because it's in the folder structure. The name extension isn't removed like I would want, though, so it looks funny in the UI...

Thread I am referring to:

By the way, the goal here is to get things laid out so Plex and Emby both handle them properly (I'm still running in a SxS configuration for now). It seems like C is the way? I've got a lot of renaming ahead it that's the case, and re-scanning my libraries every time to test changes is kinda painful.

Thanks!

Edited August 20, 2020 by Chiefmas
clarify goal; additional detail

[Carlo 4561]

Hi,

There is likely no difference in B and C except the name for B is redundant with the folder name but likely won't hurt anything.

I myself would use format C as I think it looks cleaner.

Edited August 20, 2020 by cayars

[Chiefmas 40]

I think you posted while I was making a clarifying edit.

So, check the screenshot...see how it doesn't hide the "-featurette". I agree type C is cleaner, it's just more work for me, as type B will be closer to the Plex naming convention I've been using for a  long time...well...maybe time to sit down and write a script to clean it all up for myself. This is not helping me be lazy! I wonder...meh...do I need a trailing space between the name and the "-extension". Maybe that's why it shows as part of the name, or is that just going to work that way...

so not so much that name extensions are supported, as they don't cause a problem. Hmmm...I think I'm just going to have to trim all the extensions now and move everything to folders to have this work the way I want.

 

 

Edited August 20, 2020 by Chiefmas
clarify issue

[Carlo 4561]

What you could do is try a few different things on different movies and just keep track of what you're testing.  That way it's just one scan for each system to see what works best.  Then just fix those other test entries and of course everything else.

I've often found for me anyway, when I'm going to do something manually library wide I'll create a new mount point (library path) and slowly move all edited contend from the old location to the new location as I go.  This way it's always clear what still needs to be adjusted/processed but since both the old and new location are setup as library mount points the data stays available to the media servers.

[Luke 42079]

B is valid as well, we just don't currently strip anything off of the filename.