Dragon Box and 30th Anniversary in Plex

[Jon Jon]

Hi Everyone!

First off, long time no see! It has been a long time.

I hope everyone is doing well .

I am currently on a mission to make my Dragon Ball content playable in Plex.

I just finished backing up my 30th Anniversary Collection, but I want both my Dragon Boxes and 30th Anniversary Collections watchable in Plex. It seems that, due to the limitations of the database management, it is not easy to have multiple variants of the same show in Plex.

Has anyone else attempted this and come up with a good solution?

Please let me know, and thank you!

[KBABZ]

I've only heard about Plex just now, but it's not possible to go with, say, "Dragon Ball Z - Dragon Boxes" and "Dragon Ball Z - 30th" in some fashion?

[Jon Jon]

I've only heard about Plex just now, but it's not possible to go with, say, "Dragon Ball Z - Dragon Boxes" and "Dragon Ball Z - 30th" in some fashion?

To my knowledge, not easily.

Plex references online databases for the meta data for your media to give it that "Netflix" kind of feel for your content. The databases I have seen really only reference one for Dragon Ball Z, and that is for the english episode titles and seasons.

[KBABZ]

I've only heard about Plex just now, but it's not possible to go with, say, "Dragon Ball Z - Dragon Boxes" and "Dragon Ball Z - 30th" in some fashion?

To my knowledge, not easily.

Plex references online databases for the meta data for your media to give it that "Netflix" kind of feel for your content. The databases I have seen really only reference one for Dragon Ball Z, and that is for the english episode titles and seasons.

There's no way to manually adjust the metadata yourself?

[Danfun64]

Do the episode titles for DBZ reflect uncut or cut numbering?

[IAmTheMilkMan]

I've only heard about Plex just now, but it's not possible to go with, say, "Dragon Ball Z - Dragon Boxes" and "Dragon Ball Z - 30th" in some fashion?

To my knowledge, not easily.

Plex references online databases for the meta data for your media to give it that "Netflix" kind of feel for your content. The databases I have seen really only reference one for Dragon Ball Z, and that is for the english episode titles and seasons.

There's no way to manually adjust the metadata yourself?

There is. I think what you're suggesting can be done, it's just going to be a bit of work for OP to get the content to match with the online TVDB for the episode titles/summaries, and then manually adjust the show title.

[Soppa Saia People]

plex always pees itself whenever i use it lmao, and it's kinda notoriously crappy for anime (especially if their longer then 100 eps and not separated by seasons), but you should be able to do it, you'd just need to do it manually and mess around with the title of the files themselves. same with episode titles, it's pretty annoying but not impossible.

[Zeon_Grunt]

Somewhere I actually have some knowledge as I have multiple the dubs on Plex (Faulconer, Dragon Box, and Ocean Dub).

Yeah, it's a pain to host them seperately but it is possible. I currently have each one in distinct folders while avoiding naming them "Dragon Ball Z" except the one I want as the default. So for the Ocean Dub, I have the series folder named "Ocean Dub" and rename the series in Plex as "Dragon Ball Z: Ocean Dub." This doesn't have the proper meta-data, but you can find posters for it over on reddit's PlexPoster subreddit.

For the Dragon Boxes, you actually can get the meta-data by naming it "Dragon Box Z," properly dividing it into the 7 sets, and setting your TV library agent to The Movie Database as they actually have the set separate from the main series.

[Jon Jon]

Somewhere I actually have some knowledge as I have multiple the dubs on Plex (Faulconer, Dragon Box, and Ocean Dub).

Yeah, it's a pain to host them seperately but it is possible. I currently have each one in distinct folders while avoiding naming them "Dragon Ball Z" except the one I want as the default. So for the Ocean Dub, I have the series folder named "Ocean Dub" and rename the series in Plex as "Dragon Ball Z: Ocean Dub." This doesn't have the proper meta-data, but you can find posters for it over on reddit's PlexPoster subreddit.

For the Dragon Boxes, you actually can get the meta-data by naming it "Dragon Box Z," properly dividing it into the 7 sets, and setting your TV library agent to The Movie Database as they actually have the set separate from the main series.

I will give this a try and report back!

Thank you everyone for the suggestions!

[Jon Jon]

So, I was unable to get this done .

It may be a bit advanced for me!

I continue to poke around and think about how I can do this.

I am also with free time trying to get these 30th Anniversary episodes to default to the Bruce Faulconer track (really, that's why I wanted this set. Now I have a perfect Japanese and a near perfect english release of the show).

THAT has been a bit rough trying to figure out how to automate updating the flags in each episode to default to the proper audio track.

[sumpter360]

Check out the free tool MKVToolNix. You drag a file into the program and it lays out all of the streams inside it (video stream, audio streams ((tracks)), subtitle streams, chapter set, etc.) You can select an audio track and tell it you want it set to default. You can also outright remove streams if you so choose. Then it makes the changes on a separate copy of the file, without any re-encoding. You can even set it up batch commands so it takes all files in a directory and performs the same operation to each and places the resultant files in a folder.

Hit me up if you have any questions on it! It's a terrific tool I've used MANY times.

[dubbxyz]

You may want to try adding a separate channel library for plex to pull from. I have the default Movie and TV channel on the left, in addition have added a few others including Anime, Sports and of course a specific Dragon Ball channel, being the dedicated fan and media junkie I am!

With these separate channel libraries you can tell them to grab your media from specific directories. I haven’t directly tried it with two of the same titles with intention, however I know I had my Dragon Ball pulling from my tv channel, up until I had encoded my DVDs and organized it into the dedicated Dragon Ball folder on my computers hard drive, then pulling into my Dragon Ball channel.

[Zeon_Grunt]

So, I was unable to get this done .

It may be a bit advanced for me!

I continue to poke around and think about how I can do this.

I am also with free time trying to get these 30th Anniversary episodes to default to the Bruce Faulconer track (really, that's why I wanted this set. Now I have a perfect Japanese and a near perfect english release of the show).

THAT has been a bit rough trying to figure out how to automate updating the flags in each episode to default to the proper audio track.

I'm sorry it didn't work. I'm not sure why as having the directory folders named something other than "Dragon Ball Z" or "DBZ" should keep them content ID matching with Dragon Ball Z (which is why they stack on top of one another). What does your directory naming look like anyway?

That said, theMovieDB seems to have taken the Dragon Box Z collection down, so you won't be able to find metadata for any alternate cuts of DBZ, only the default one.

You can't chose the default language track for individual shows, you can only change the global language settings which will automatically choose the track for whatever language you picked. To get around this, when I ripped my blurays with makeMKV, I deselected the 1st and 3rd audio tracks and only ripped the 2nd. This way I have a set of the series that only has the Faulconer tracks on it.

[el_santo_eterno]

I had added the Dragon Box collection to themoviedb.org, I even got the series into my plex correctly, but they pulled it down after a day or two, stating that it was a duplicate of DBZ ...If you've got the will to re-add the series, do so, but let us know so we can dd it int our plex. I don't wan to put in the hours it took again, sorry.

[10gigtriforce]

Put them in 2 different libraries. I've got my rock the dragon collection in one and my dragon box remux in another. they both work fine and both pull up fine. I've done the same for japanese sailormoon and dic sailor moon.

maybe an hd anime library and an sd one would work for you?

[TheGreatness25]

*Raises hand in anticipation of showing how much lack of knowledge I actually have*

So... Plex takes your library... and makes it streamable like Netflix? In the same way that Apple Music and Spotify can take your local library and make it so that it matches the other streaming songs you have? Hm... This could be very, very useful...

*Puts hand down to plot*

[el_santo_eterno]

*Raises hand in anticipation of showing how much lack of knowledge I actually have*

So... Plex takes your library... and makes it streamable like Netflix? In the same way that Apple Music and Spotify can take your local library and make it so that it matches the other streaming songs you have? Hm... This could be very, very useful...

*Puts hand down to plot*

Yes!