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It's the auto-generated season cards from Plex. I think it gets them from TheTVdb.com or somewhere.
https://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=212171&seasonid=372011&lid=7
Tomorrow night's:
> In a futuristic society, all sarcasm has been eliminated except for the occasional use of the phrase, 'oh, do you think so?' by Nether-Zone outcasts.
You can see the descriptions for most older episodes on the TVDB.
2021 F1 season would just be a season, then each episode inside it.
You would need to name your directory Formula 1, then seasons would be Season 2021.
Formula 1/Season 2021/Formula 1 - S2021E01 - Testing (Day 1).mkv
Here is the full list of each episode in the 2021 Season so you can rename the files properly. This should help Plex find the correct data. https://thetvdb.com/series/formula-1/seasons/official/2021
Sites like theTVdb that compile metadata.
https://thetvdb.com/series/american-dad
if you look they list season 11 as 3 episodes, and 12 as 15 episodes, rather than season 11 as 18...even though it's chronologically and production wise all season 11.
and that's fine, whatever it doesn't matter...except that other sites list it all as season 11. so episodes are out in the wild named all kinds of messed up.
Their subscription plan site is still up: https://thetvdb.com/subscribe
I’ve been scraping different TV shows from TheTVDB since the beginning of October and just checked in Kodi that TheTVDB is still set as scraper for TV shows. Did I miss something and they withdrew their plans? Or did OSMC (the OS of my Kodi device, Vero 4K) negotiate something so its users get free access to the TheTVDB v4 API?
They do now, but its just a mirror of TVDB, so any issues w/ naming/numbering conventions remain.
Like my Animaniacs is real bad, S01 is 65 files and 160 episodes... https://i.imgur.com/8r7skaD.png
How does that even make sense https://i.imgur.com/dy3fxdR.jpg, theres the Animaniacs intro, theres the Animaniacs credits, just because a segment has a title card doesnt mean its ever aired apart for the exact same segments before and after it...
Look at the airdates https://thetvdb.com/series/animaniacs/seasons/official/1 just why‽
Probably put the mini series in a season 0 folder and name the files appropriately, e.g.: s00e01_mini series 1
Or something like that.
https://thetvdb.com/series/battlestar-galactica-2003/seasons/official/0
The TVDB or similar source is where Plex will pull info from quite a bit of the time. Make sure your source is set to it, name the files and enjoy some cylons.
I was recomended the episode order listed on thetvdb.com. I’ve been watching Kim Possible using that list as a guide, and it’s been really helpful :)
https://youtu.be/7yU55PUls2c?t=18m30s (This is the exact frame from the song)
Bob Ross - Nature's Paradise (Season 9 Episode 11) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yU55PUls2c
Found by searching here until I found a match - https://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=79167&seasonid=188731&id=1691581&lid=7
https://thetvdb.com/series/community/episodes/3713171
Not according to TVDB.
But they removed Advanced Dungeons and Dragons from streaming services. So my guess is they just moved all the episodes down a number on Netflix.
I don't know where the app gets its information from, but if it's from TVDB which many programs scrape information from, it might not be accurate as anyone can submit information there. Trakt also scrapes information from theTVDB.
As with every post like this - check TVDB for proper naming convention
https://thetvdb.com/search?query=the+office
(and use fix match if you still can't match)
Your naming is incorrect.
take yourself along to TheTVDB.com and look up Doctor Who, make sure to get the right Doctor Who for the Original series (start 1963 end 2013 I think it is listed as) that has all the episodes there.
Going on your listing they should be
S01E01 - An Uneaqrthly Child
S01E02 - The CXave of Skulls
S01E03 - The Forest of Fear
S01E04 - The Firemaker
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Plex uses TheTVDB.com listing as a default for all TV Programmes for future reference.
TheTVDB will follow whatever the network has listed as the order. In this case The History Channel has "After the Rescue" listed as season 1 episode 8.
https://play.history.com/shows/alone/season-1
In Plex you have the choice of TheTVDB or The Movie Database episode ordering. Both TVDB and TMDB have the same episode ordering. Wikipedia is irrelevant. You have to reorganize your files.
You still haven't named the Show folder correctly.
The Office is the UK version.
The Office (US) is the show you have.
You can also try The Office (US) {tvdb-72344}
Which metadata provider are you using? It's probably related to the fact that on netflix there are "4 parts" but on some metadata providers there are "2 seasons". The moviedb has two seasons, the second one being chapter 21 to chapter 36. TV maze has 4 seasons, season 2 being chapter 12 to chapter 20. The TVDB has both options, depending on if you pick standard order or netflix parts (with the same episode counts, respectively), but I don't know if the jellyfin plugin can use anything other than standard.
So my guess is you have your files named as 4 seasons but the metadata is only expecting 2. So just rename you files to match what it expects.
Season 0 is where you can put TV show special features including movies and OVAs. You can look at lists to determine what to label your OVA. For instance, if I was to add the 3 Gundam OVAs to my Mobile Suit: Gundam series, I'd look on the Specials page for Mobile Suit: Gundam on thetvdb.com.
Here, I'd see the OVAs are listed as episodes S00E01, S00E02, and S00E03 respectively. So I'd label the episodes that way, and plop them in a folder marked Season 0 in my MS:G folder. Scan them in and enjoy!
Let me know if you need any clarification and have a lovely day.
If you want metadata, see how TMDb and/or TVDb have them set. If you can do a direct pull from one of them, your life's a lot easier.
For instance, TVDb has them this way: https://thetvdb.com/series/looney-tunes
So if you want them as a series, match them that way.
You could put them all in as movies, since they're all in TMDb that way, and create a Collection to hide them from the library if you're worried about them clogging up the view.
Ancient Aliens has been on for like 12 seasons, i bet theres an episode about that.
EDIT: 15 seasons, and there was! S07E09.
No worries. I would recommend checking thetvdb.com, it's pretty much the standard that most people go by, especially in the piracy scene.
Does TheTVDB.com show 5 seasons? If so, thats the problem. If it shows 6 seasons there, then refresh the series in Sonarr. If it still happens, reply back and let us know the show name.
Look up how the site of your scraper for TV shows names it in the language you have set for scraping.
In the example of The Office on thetvdb.com, the British original is simply named The Office:
https://thetvdb.com/series/the-office
while the US version is named The Office (US)
https://thetvdb.com/series/the-office-us
This might differ from scraper to scraper. There’s no naming convention which will work for all shows on all scrapers since site operators have different opinions on how to name shows.
Some also include the year of the first release/broadcast in parentheses after the title and a space like done with movies.
Thank you for the reply and info. I suspected the data was from that website.
I suppose the best thing I could do is register and assist thetvdb.com with keeping things up to date.
> Plex has agreements in place with the metadata sources.
I'm sure they have API agreements, but copying the data goes against the business model.
> What's your point? There's no Plex based solution to bad data.
You're misunderstanding. The data on TVDB is good. The data on TMDB is good, but generally different or has a couple of mistakes. Plex's programmatic merging of the data on their mediaverse, is atrocious.
For example:
TVDB: 2 seasons, first is split cour. Good images representing the seasons / cours
Plex Mediaverse: Take the set union of the above, for whatever reason. Then prefer the TMDB images. This results in a duplicate 12 episodes in season 1
I explicitly provided this as an example before, and was told to go get the two other services to sort it out. Instead of Plex realizing that their hard and fast programmed rules just doesn't work yet for all, or even most, TV. Plex caused the bad data. The other two services have different rules for how shows are set. Plex does a union, instead of an intersection + a union of the odd ones out. Plex also appears to blatantly prefer TMDB images, and while their movie images are great, I can't say the same for television.
They're defo into "so bad they're good" territory.
Some kind soul compiled a full list, and you can find most on YouTube.
I hope you like Nazis, sex, sunken ships and serial killers!
The show title for the pre-reboot show should just be "Doctor Who", not "Dr Who (1974)". Everything with the first 7 doctors is "Doctor Who", the modern series is "Doctor Who (2005)". The file structure would be Doctor Who - Season 12 - Doctor Who S12E01 Robots (1), or something to that effect. TVDB listing is here.
Thank you very much! I only had lower quality versions of these. (I love BBC Mysteries)
The only suggestion I would make is to use the naming convention from TheTVdb.com (https://www.thetvdb.com/series/miss-marple).
Series Name - s01e01 - ShowTitle.ext
It's not a huge big deal, it just makes it able for media servers/players (like Plex) to look up show information.
The default scrapper for the TV library is thetvdb.com
That site doesn't allow movies. Emby is searching "movies" on that site. When you do, heres the results: Search - TheTVDB.com
Specifically Emby associated that folder to this "series" ***MOVIES ARE NOT ALLOWED*** - TheTVDB.com
So yes, you have the right info. Your folders are not in a proper order to do whatever it is you're trying to do.
Enter it as S24E01. TVDB updated season 24
Edit for whoever downvoted my comment lol, last night's episode is included in season 24 on TVDB
I can answer this since I already went through it!
You're naming the Specials as Specials based on Aired Order right now (so, for instance, Christmas Invasion is S00E02). This doesn't work for DVD Order.
You need to name the Specials as episodes based on the DVD Order list.
So Christmas Invasion should be S01E14, Runaway Bride is S02E14, etc.
This also means for S07, you'll need to rename everything after "The Snowmen" to add one more number, because "The Snowmen" is S07E06 in DVD order. "The Bells of Saint John" is now S07E07, and so on.
Best thing to do is to move the whole Doctor Who (2005) folder out of your library folder, rename the episodes to match the DVD Order List (should only have to worry about renaming the Specials themselves since they all get added to the end of the previous season as opposed to the DVDs themselves putting them at the start of the next one - except for the aforementioned S07 issue since "The Snowmen" is in the middle of the season), then move the Doctor Who (2005) folder back into your library folder and re-scan, making sure you have it set to "DVD Order." Refresh metadata a couple times if necessary and it should all fall into place.
For Plex's purposes, they are listed as they are intended to be kept: Exactly how TVDB/TMDB has them. Main show is Power Rangers. Each subsequent show is it's own season within.
The 2017 episodes of Twin Peaks is listed as season 3, so your files must be names as such, and everything will show up under one show (the 1990 version).
https://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=70533&seasonid=696307&lid=7
And tvdb have just removed Dexter season 9 and spun it off into a new show as Dexter New Blood season 1.
https://thetvdb.com/series/dexter-new-blood
TVMaze also now have it as a new show which pretty much guarantees all further teh scene releases etc will have the new title.
You'll need to readd the new show title to Sonarr.
hold on I just checked again. It's now back to "continuing": https://thetvdb.com/series/sweet-home
I genuinely thought it was cancelled, last time I checked it said "cancelled" so.. maybe they changed their mind? hopefully.
If you're library is using the new Plex TV Series agent, that will be the only option in the 'Fix Match' dropdown. To search for a TVDB entry specifically, you have to search for its TVDB id, e.g. tvdb-76666 for Dragon Ball. Though to actually pull in metadata from TVDB you'll have to make sure the series is using TVDB ordering of some kind (under Edit > Advanced > Episode ordering).
To add to this for OP and anyone else interested, AJW Classics is a 1-hour television series on Samurai TV that is a compilation of matches from the promotion. While unfortunately, many of the top top AJW matches are found on major shows like Dream Slam, Queendom, and Destiny that have their own DVD releases (and easily found online), this TV series has some good matches and helps you follow long running feuds. Watching Crush Gals blow the roof off of Korakuen Hall and feuding with Dump is a joy and a wonderful start to the series.
If you're really serious about watching a ton of AJW, this is a must watch/have. There are some obstacles though so here's the deal:
- AJW Classics is STILL running! Yes, it started in 2007 and with an average of 1 show per month, the latest episode is 206. Complete TV listing here.
- The episodes, THANKFULLY, seem to be running matches in sequential order which makes it so easy to follow. The first episodes begin in 1983 and the newest episodes are at the end of 2002 which is when the Fuji TV time slot was taken away. I don't know when the series will end exactly but Google next month I guess.
- The legit way to watch this series is to tune into Japanese TV station Samurai TV somehow (if you can even do it legally) and tune into the monthly shows but probably not the previous episodes.
- The other, more convenient method you can guess. If not YouTube, Dailymotion is absolutely a great place to wink wink find info wink wink on previous episodes but even NEW episodes. The most convenient information is that several folks have the first 190+ episodes to start. I'd begin looking into that and that's all I've got to say about that!
I think your extras need a S00E00 as well. You can check them on the tvdb.
So try to name your extras as your other episodes like "S00E00 - episode titel"
What it also could be, seems you have all your episodes in the same folder. Put every season in a folder like the extras. So you have a folder Extras, Season 01, Season 02,...
Van Helsing season 5 is missing episode information in the TVDB, it's probably related to that. Perhaps at one point ep1 had data that is now removed. And though it is probably fine and unrelated, I'd remove those backticks in the filename for 4x09.
You should follow the way TVDB names them (https://thetvdb.com/series/looney-tunes), combined with Plex's general rules for naming and organizing TV shows.
So each season should be its own folder, but with 'Season' prepended, and then each episode inside each season folder should list the season+episode:
TV/ Looney Tunes/ Season 1930/ Looney Tunes - S1930E01.ext Looney Tunes - S1930E02 - Congo Jazz.ext ... Season 1931/ Looney Tunes - S1931E01.ext ... ...
Or make it match The TvDB -- Great British Bake Off S00E85 -- https://thetvdb.com/series/the-great-british-bake-off/episodes/8270388
lol, yeah, these kids today with their streaming. I was first exposed to it when they played the sketch on the overhead projector without sound in between setups for a superchunk concert. It was the one where they were doing the sketch where it was the dali lama at a porkys like summercamp where they competed with the rich kids camp. I knew I needed to figure out what it was and where to get it, I ended up buying it all recorded onto vhs tapes. The guy also included a bunch of the commecials for on hbo, and once i can't find was something like.
Bob: "In order to celebrate Mr. Show moving to Tuesday nights at midnight, we've rigged this microwave to run with the door open."
David: "What do you think will happen?"
https://thetvdb.com/series/mr-show/episodes/4193608
but I can't find the actual video.
Bob: "I don't know probably nothing." As they're standing there with makeup that made it look like their skin all burned and smoking and I think one of them's eyes was falling out or something.
Is this it?? It's a movie, so it need to be in your movie library... https://thetvdb.com/movies/twin-peaks-fire-walk-with-me
Or if it's populating in the tv shows with no offer you can manually add it with the ID but I don't think that will work.
Check the naming (include the TV show year if possible)
For the incorrect order / episode metadata check thetvdb.com and see if your order matches the DVD order. If so change Plex for that show to show DVD order instead of order aired. --> That is a big problem I ran into with Seinfeld...DVD order and airing order weren't close...sometimes they were in different seasons!
TV shows in Plex do not match via IMDB or TMDB. Plex matches TV according to TheTVDB.com and uses that sites naming conventions. TV shows only have a year when there is more than one show with the same name.
Plex is smart. Honestly sometimes it's so smart it lets you get away with lazy naming and file structure. You are not using the correct conventions. I understand that up till now it has worked for you. But really you just got lucky.
Proper file structure and naming would be:
TV Library -> Nova -> Season 26 -> Nova S26E04 - Escape! Because Accidents Happen Fire (1) .mp4
See these TVDB links for how your shows should be named
At least here in Germany there is a series called "Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories" with 2 seasons (2017-2019), those are the 2 seasons produced by Netflix. The other series is just called "Midnight Diner", those are the fist 3 seasons produced solely by MBS (2009-2014). Those first 3 seasons only showed up on Netflix this month.
https://thetvdb.com/series/midnight-diner/allseasons/official
You talking about the same South Park that literally spent a decade releasing half-seasons every 6 months?
Season 7 - 6 month break between episodes 7 & 8
Season 8 - 6 month break between episodes 7 & 8
Season 9 - 6 month break between episodes 7 & 8
Season 10 - 5 month break between episodes 7 & 8
Season 11 - 6 month break between episodes 7 & 8
Season 12 - 6 month break between episodes 7 & 8
Season 13 - 6 month break between episodes 7 & 8
Season 14 - 5 month break between episodes 7 & 8
Season 15 - 4 month break between episodes 7 & 8
Season 16 - 5 month break between episodes 7 & 8
Source: https://thetvdb.com/series/south-park/allseasons/official
What's the source? Are they encoded direct from the DVD, or are these transcodes?
~~Also, as it's per-season archive do you have an episode list of whats included? The copies I have match up with this episode guide which shows 07 series/140 episodes, season five of which makes up the movies. You seem to have eight seasons plus the movies, for a total of nine.~~
Answering my own question - Seems to be the last two seasons split into 4, as per the DVD Order.
Ha-ha.
Last time Artie was actually on SNL was the 2009 season finale, and it was during the very brief window when he was actually clean for a few weeks.
Pics here, including one with Artie standing next to his doppelganger referenced in the thread post.
This show would be just swell! I know it's obscure...
Disneyland
https://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=71625&lid=7
Also wouldn't mind Barney & Friends Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Thomas and Friends
Sesame Street
Teletubbies
Is it this one?
/TV Shows /Rankin-Bass Holiday Classics /Specials Rankin-Bass Holiday Classics - S00E06 - Frosty the Snowman.mkv
If I go by what TVDB has, it's listing them as two different shows.
So you could just fix the match, but I would just follow Plex's recommended naming conventions to avoid having to do this again in the future. Might be able to get by with just using the release year:
/TV Shows/
/High Maintenance (2012)/
/Season 01/
High Maintenance - S01E01.mkv
High Maintenance - S01E02.mkv
High Maintenance - S01E03.mkv
/Season 02/
High Maintenance - S02E01.mkv
High Maintenance - S02E02.mkv
High Maintenance - S02E03.mkv
/High Maintenance (2016)/
/Season 01/
High Maintenance - S01E01.mkv
High Maintenance - S01E02.mkv
High Maintenance - S01E03.mkv
/Season 02/
High Maintenance - S02E01.mkv
High Maintenance - S02E02.mkv
High Maintenance - S02E03.mkv
TheTVDB doesn't list it with S01E01A and S01E01B: https://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=305089&seasonid=656941&lid=7
You will need to rename the files to match the order on TheTVDB.
If it is two parts of one episode, you could join the two into one single file.
The golden palace "spin off" is classed as Season 8 on tvdb - so these need to be named as
C:\Users\User\Videos\TV\The Golden Girls\Season 08\The Golden Girls - S08E01 - The Golden Palace.mkv
And such :)
Check episode listing on wikipedia for episode names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Palace#Episodes
And compare it with Season 8: https://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=71292&seasonid=496443&lid=7
Check out <em>The Leftovers</em>. It uses the evangelical Christian notion of "The Rapture" as a starting point. I've only completed the first season, but it was excellent.
Edit: linkification
I would use a new TV Shows library specifically for courses.
Find your courses.
Name the shows and episodes as they are shown. Use the S01E01 - Episode Name.ext format.
TheTVDB has Looney Tunes and MGM Cartoons in both ways - as individual movies and also as series where the season number is the year of release. Name your files to match and Plex will pull everything in.
https://thetvdb.com/series/looney-tunes
https://thetvdb.com/series/mgm-cartoons
Can I ask what source you're using for the season numbering? None of it seems to match this:
https://thetvdb.com/series/24-hours-in-police-custody
According to that, this episode is season 9, episode 6
Oh, is IT because there is a shit ton of shows named something with you...??
If so, then you Ho to thetvdb.com, find the you show. https://thetvdb.com/series/you
Then you take the series id number and put in the search field, then it should only cone Up with the correct show.
You show id is, 336924.
Hope that helps.
Best not to add any extras as further episodes in the season folders.
check out thetvdb.com for both Doctor Who (1963) and Doctor Who (2005) they have a list of extras along with relevant episode numbers in their "Specials" season, or Season 0(zero) as some user prefer where you will also find any relevant metadata. If you have Specials that aren't listed there then by all means add them once you have ripped them, but me I would place them in the Specials folder and assign a higher number than is likely to be used, start at say S00E800 so as not so likely to clash with anything already assigned or about to be assign within the next few years, if then something you add to your own system then gets official recognition you can always re-assign the episode number to reflect the change.
If you have found Doctor Who (2005) has some Doctor Who (1969) episodes then you will have to Split Apart the 2 series and reassign one or both.
I have Looney Tunes on my plex. Follow the tvdb naming for the episodes. All the episodes I have match. Operation Rabbit should be S1952E02.
I have her Greek Odyssey and Catwoman shows if you want me to upload to your folder.
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Edit: Forgot one.
The search functions rely on information from a third-party provider and they do occasionally have issues but that should affect most of us simultaneously therefore the only thing I can think of is perhaps it's been blocked by your ISP.
See if you can access these sites in a web browser.
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How do I get rid of the 50 point font, and terrible mobile phone style layout? It's unusable.
I've started using Wikipedia, MetaCritic, a bit of RottenTomatoes and random things that come up in search. Some people have also mentioned TMDB (The Movie DataBase), RateHouse, TheTVDB.com, and a few others. MetaCritic is the easiest to add your own reviews. None is as good as the old IMDB but I'm tired of companies using messed up "responsive" website design to make everything only with the tiniest phone screen in mind and tired of them manipulating our moods and actions with web design forcing us to see more ads and make more clicks. For that reason, I'm skipping a site I'd loved up until recently. One of the above companies should ramp things up to fill the void felt by a lot of old IMDB users. It's a prime opportunity.
Power Query is so amazing. I've started training the strong Excel users at work about the wonders.
I was sitting at home the other day ripping a TV show season DVD which always takes so long. Plex uses TheTVDB.com as the source for matching, and show DVDs are always such a pain with naming -- (show) (year) - S(season)E(episode) - (Name of the episode). I'm pulling this all from the website repeatedly, and the fields are all in different columns of a table. There must be a better way.
20 min later, I have a refreshable Excel spreadsheet, where I put the URL in a table, and spit out all the episode filenames, exactly formatted as needed for Plex.
add season to your file name and see if that works. ie: S00E01, S01E01. When in doubt look up how the show is listed on https://thetvdb.com/
show name - season x episode number - episode title.extension
I am of the understanding that project developers would have to pay for API access once V3 of the API is no longer supported, as V4 will require an API key.
Which would have meant that either the developers of Kodi and Plex would have to pay for an API key for access by the application or the end user would have to pay as Kodi does not have a revenue stream that would cover the costs of API access for it's users.
The TVDB subscription page just mentions that for some commercial clients they negotiate a fee, but when that isn't the case then the user needs a subscription, but they don't specifically mention which software is exempt...
I've googled and I haven't found anything official that Kodi and Plex users would be exempt... Do you have a reference?
u/dovenyi is there a way I could help with this? I wonder if there's a model like themoviedb.org or thetvdb.com that could be implemented where people can create an account and add/edit properties of keyboards, in that way it's not on a single person to find and enter everything.
This was posted with this episode number and it says Rougue in the intro. Also https://thetvdb.com/series/qi-xl/seasons/official/18 says it’s no 14. And so does the bbc https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000t8qs
I avoid folders of mixed type. I create a folder called Movies and set the agent there to only scan moviedb. Then I create a folder called TV and set the agent there to only scan tvdb. Would this work for you?
I am not fully understanding the issues you are facing but you can go to both moviedb.com and thetvdb.com to see what data it has, and also join/contribute to fix any issues - that's what I did. Be sure to read each sites "contribution bible"
You are so completely welcome! They're in aired order of the TVDb, so you can have a quick look there and see how many are in each season and if there's less in the folder, you can see which ones are missing as they're numbered the same. There aren't many, so you can easily see just by looking at the numbering of the episodes in the folder, but the TVDb is the best way to go as it's basically official. https://thetvdb.com/series/forensic-files
You could try without season folders but I doubt it’s them.
I second Yveske’s advice. Create a plain text file tvshow.nfo in the series folder (outside the season folders). Only paste the URL to the file, nothing else, so there’s just https://thetvdb.com/series/doctor-who-2005 in it. Save, close, rescan.
Several years ago, for some weird reason I couldn’t scrape this series by its German translated name but had to use the .nfo file with the link and have the files named with the English name as well.
That's what you should do. I have done it like that many times. I prefer Season 00, that seems to work better for me.
Make sure TVDB has it listed as specials and you're listing it accordingly if you're relying on them to get metadata (e.g. https://thetvdb.com/series/the-brady-bunch/seasons/official/0)
And if the metadata is not there, you can still do it, but you'd have to add the metadata and edit the name manually.
I'm assuming your other episodes are also following this same naming convention
So Plex typically pulls in from thetvdb.com for metadata here.
For this particular episode, it seems these three "Children in Need" specials are listed as Specials for "The Great British Sewing Bee" on thetvdb. https://thetvdb.com/series/the-great-british-sewing-bee/seasons/official/0
Following the correct convention this would be the filename for the first episode:
The Great British Sewing Bee - S00E02 - Children in Need Episode 1.mp4
Understandable. Thank you for your efforts, I will attempt to do my part to keep it alive to share among friends.
Before I went to sleep last night I checked to see if there was a tvdb for it and there was, which means I can add it to my Plex server for anyone to stream it anywhere.
Name it "Taskmaster (NZ)" a good workflow if you're unsure of how to name a show is to search it on tvdb. In this case you can see it here https://thetvdb.com/series/taskmaster-nz
Another thing I do is use a program called Filebot. While it is a paid program is absolutely great for getting everything nice and formatted before you put it on your server. You can also pirate it if you have no cash.
Used this method and it worked perfectly.
THETVDB.COM number is 357864 and it found and everything populated.
Thanks for this tip, will really come in handy in the future.
Sonarr gets its info off of TVDB and they have one huge season and a few smaller ones listed: https://thetvdb.com/series/batman-the-animated-series
I don't know what episode titles you have but if they don't match you must have downloaded some other Batman cartoon instead.
You can obviously check on TheTVDB but it seems the issue with Picard is rather common. I fixed it by going into Voyager, selecting Split-Apart and manually using Fix Match. In the search window search for 364093 on TheTVDB and it should match it that way.
~~I cannot get certain movies or shows to show up in my library. I tried everything. Of course I fully go with the File Naming Scheme and checked the titles with https://www.themoviedb.org for movies and https://thetvdb.com for shows. I tried naming manually and also with Filebot (which just gave the same result). I made sure there are is no weird metadata by using mkvtoolnix and did everything from The Plex Dance to making sure that the agents are correctly set up in the settings. Still, no luck.~~
~~Media in question: Rabbit Without Ears (2007) is the movie and Neon Genesis Evangelion is the show I have a problem with. The latter, I mean I can understand maybe it gets confused somehow but the former I have no clue what I'm doing wrong.~~
Thanks I was actually a moron. Didn't set up file system permissions correctly.
Nvm, I looked it up on thetvdb.com and realized I didn't have them in a tvshow/season format S01E01, now that I changed that it started to recognize them. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Much appreciated.
If the metadata for these is on thetvdb.com then you'll need to put them in a folder that is monitored by a TV library. If the metadata for these is at themoviedb.org then you'll need to put them in a folder that is monitored by a movies library.
...and of course you'll need the correct folder structure and naming as per the Plex conventions.
https://thetvdb.com/series/the-office-us
Looking at TVDB I don’t see them, but maybe you will.
If all else fails I just make my stuff outside the range of specials.
So if specials are s00e01-s00e25 I’ll start my deleted scenes at like s00e99 and onward. It won’t have official titles but you can add those.
Follow normal naming procedures after cross checking with the TVDB page.
Gods of the Arena was a separate miniseries that aired between Spartacus Season 1 (Blood and Sand) and Season 2 (Vengence). TVDB formerly had them as separate series, however on the page linked above, they are listed as Specials to the main Spartacus series, so the naming required (also per the article above) should be:
\TV Shows\Spartacus (2010)\Specials\Spartacus (2010) - S00E01 - Past Transgressions.ext
..and so forth.
https://thetvdb.com/series/looney-tunes/allseasons/official
Name them in the S####E## convention according to the list above. This will help Plex get the metadata correct. Cry once.
You haven't named them right probably. Did you put the different seasons in their own folders too? Folders for Season 01, Season 02, ... and in each one the files should be of the format "Dragon Ball - S01E01.mkv". And you can see the correct numbering here https://thetvdb.com/series/dragon-ball/allseasons/official
Yeah. Mine is in TV with each special as en episode. Thetvdb.com has it set up as a series called Rankin-Bass Holiday Classics, so I use that instead of listing them each as movies.
>Gintama (2005) IMDB 8.7 Anime 720p x265 Episodes 1 - 316
If you're putting this in a movies folder, it's:
Gintama (2005) - 720p - x265 - IMDB 8.7 Episodes 1 to 316
...but I don't know if that will be handled correctly after it looks up on IMDB or not, you might have to manually edit the metadata in Plex after it does its thing. Or if you want it to see this as a TV show, you should have a TV shows folder that contains a folder called Gintama and a subfolder called Season 1 and the file in it called:
Gintama S01E01-E316 - 720p - x265 - IMDB 8.7
Everything after the last hyphen is a comment and gets ignored by the parser.
I think you can, if you want, call the folder in the TV shows folder Gintama (2005) but I'm certain you can name the show folder Gintama 79895 if you want to ensure Plex will get it right. That said, if it's really Gintama The Movie, not 315 episodes in one single file, you would do the TV thing as I showed and call the file:
Gintama S00E04 - 720p - x265 - IMDB 8.7
because the movie is listed as specials (season 0) episode 4 on TheTVdb.com:
Honestly. I feel Plex and others should move away from thetvdb and start using themoviedb.com exclusively. Thetvdb.com is all but dead and they have been working on a "new site" for about 2 years with no updates on where it is.
I suppose you use tvdb and plex scanner: OVAs and Movies need to go into the Season 00 folder with S00EXX in the file name. Here are the specials of FMA:B and name them accordingly. Plex and tvdb don't understand OVAs, Movie, Specials.
There's also HAMA and ASS which may scan and catalogue better for anime.
Here is the link for the specials section: https://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=70533&seasonid=18002&lid=7
Here is the link for the specials rules: https://www.thetvdb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Special_Episodes
> Please provide a screenshot of your folder structure and file names.
And TheTVDB only has one G.I. Joe with 4 seasons. Not two shows eah with 2 seasons. So I'm willing to bet that you do not have your files named to match TheTVDB.
This should be your episode order
https://thetvdb.com/?tab=seasonall&id=80009&lid=7
The first OVS series came out in 1992. The second in 1994. The third didn't come out till 2003. And when that happened they changed the name of the shoe around. It had different voice actors.
If you use the episode numbers and title from the link if should all work for you.
FYI there are also a quite a few other Tenchi shows and movies
Wikipedia only shows 7 seasons.
The TVDB shows 7 as well: https://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=73871
Two are split into part 1 and part 2, and the movies are counted as a separate season by some sites, so that could be where the confusion comes from.
Both TVDB and TMDB just call it "The Civil War", so following Plex's guidelines you would want something like
TV/ The Civil War (1990)/ Season 1/ The Civil War - S01E01 - The Cause (1861).ext The Civil War - S01E02 - A Very Bloody Affair (1862).ext ...
With the SXXEXX being the most important part of the file name.
Did you ever figure out the correct ordering? I'm trying to add the "Bigger, Longer and Uncut" movie, but when I add S00E06 Plex will add it as "Jay Leno comes to South Park"
I think they mean "James May's 20th Century"
Some amazing episode titles on there too, like "Honey, I shrunk the world" and "Body Fantastic"
Here's more info on the TVDB
what?
Plex makes a hard cut between TV-Shows and Movies. Your videos cannot and will not, ever, switch between those two on their own.
From what I can find This show is still a TV-Show on TheTVDB that plex uses for its metadata, even the Plex metaverse has it as a TV-Show.
If you are somehow missing episodes then you need to check your library and possibly the hard drive. Plex watches for and detects changes on your hard drive or where your files are stored if plex does not have access to or "loses" them in any way then plex will remove them from your library unless you specifically say to not "trash after scan" in your server settings.
I don't have that particular episode as a combined file, but here's an example of another 2 part episode that I have combined and how it's named (S06E04-05) https://imgur.com/a/MJPls3D
This naming convention should allow plex to properly pick up the episode numbers, you can also check how this is listed on the TVDB for a better idea of how plex will most likely match it as they list A Benihana Christmas as E10 and Back from Vacation as E11 https://thetvdb.com/series/the-office-us/seasons/official/3
This is absolutely brilliant! "If South Park had a kid with Friends and The Muppets, this is it."" Thank you for sharing. Favor, would you happen to have any of the specials?
For example, SPECIAL 0x2 Pilot or any of the items listed below....
https://thetvdb.com/series/mongrels/seasons/official/0