Plex Guide

Fixes — Problem of manually navigating to the file in mind, or worse - having to use File Explorer to search it.

This software collects all your filenames/folders into a clean list that you can easily lookup, right click and open to path. Once you start using this you can't go back.

Fixes — Problem of manually having to name each file.

You want Plex to match whatever media files you have when you scan them. This tool allows you to rename movies to a Plex acceptable format, as well as TV episodes in bulk.

• My Movies FileBot syntax: {n} ({y}) [{vf}]
  • Output:
    • Avatar (2009) [2160p]
    • The Fast and the Furious (2001) [1080p]
• My TV FileBot syntax: {n} ({y}) - {s00e00} - {t} [{vf}]
  • Output:
    • Rick and Morty [1080p]\Season 01\Rick and Morty - S01E01 - Pilot [1080p].mkv
      • Batch job per season
    • BEEF (2023) [1080p]\Season 01\BEEF (2023) - S01E01 - The Birds Don't Sing, They Screech in Pain [1080p].mkv

Fixes — Problem of no metrics and centralized dashboard

You don't really have statistics on your Plex server other than the live chart and total play time.

Tautaulli gives more analytics on playback devices, and your library's top played. It is also is a clean dashboard to live view if your users are buffering.

Fixes — Problem of large file transfer jobs (ex. queue large file transfer while you go do something else, come back and see it crashed)

I've had this issue where I would queue many File Explorer boxes with pending cut and paste files task. Sometimes they would run simultaneously, sometimes one at a time, and sometimes it crashes in the middle of the transfer and File Explorer restarts. It doesn't undo the transfers that it did so far, but it require you to re-initate the task.

Avoidable if you use TeraCopy. It will queue one job after another.

Fixes — Problem when downloaded media has a mismatch. (For example some anime on TMDB have S01e01-S01e20 (20 eps) but your download has S01 Part1 E1-10 + S01 Part2 E1-10 (20 eps) and its the same thing). Or when I do a large MKVToolNix job that leaves me with a bunch of "(1)" files I have to remove.

This allows me to fix some of the default names before running them into FileBot. This is a pretty unique problem so I wouldn't download it until you see that there is a use for it.

Fixes — Problem of having to physically be at the server in order to work on it.

Fixes — Problem of unsure internet status for the server.

Its a free remote desktop application. All you need is a Gmail account and you can access your server from any other PC in the world, so why not? This is also your internet outage indicator as it should always be available. Your server is on ethernet, right?

Fixes — Problem of validating questionable drives

Gives you hard drive health data. You can confirm a dead drive through this.

Fixes — Problem of file transfer requiring direct server access.

If you ever need to file transfer to your server, you should have a conduit. That is all.

Fixes — Problem of movie playing and it's in the wrong language or defaulted foreign subtitles you don't understand.

You can reselect the default tracks if they are not in your language and re-encode it. You can also find new subtitle tracks online and add them here to encode them into the single .mkv file.

Fixes — Problem of using Windows Media Player which is really slow and difficult to navigate.

With VLC you can clearly see all audio/subtitle tracks by just right clicking the screen. You can also validate new subtitles downloaded online without re-encoding the video as long as the .mkv and .srt/.pgs/(subtitle file) share the same name.