Any way to use TVDB matching for TV shows

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Sorry if this might be dump but is there a way to use TVDB for TV-shows?
I have a dedicated anime library set to TV shows and it uses “Plex TV Series” as scanner.
However many anime season 2 are not recognized as Plex seems to use TMDB instead of TVDB for scanning.

TMDB often has only 1 season with all episodes, while TVDB has the correct seasons. I handle eerything via Radarr and Radarr does the default naming.

One example is Dan Da Dan

Others are Kaiju Nr 8 (TVDB, TMDB) it works correctly as soon as I move the files manually from
Kaiju No. 8/Season 02/Kaiju.No.8.S02E01
To
Kaiju No. 8/Season 01/Kaiju.No.8.S01E13

However, that obviously breaks Radarr + I would like to have everything correct. Is there any way around it?

Thank you very much.

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Plex Documentation → Your Media
→ Naming & Organizing Your TV Show Files

There are two parts to this, matching and episode ordering.

Matching: You can add the IMDB/TMDB/TVDB ID to the tv show folder name. This tells Plex which show to match. It does not tell Plex how to order the episodes.

Episode Ordering: You can choose between TMDB Aired (default) and TVDB aired/dvd/absolute/etc orderings.

You can make the change at the Library level or at the individual show level.

Library Level: Edit the Library → Advanced → Episode Ordering

Individual Show: Edit the Show (pencil icon) → Advanced → Episode Ordering. Pick the desired episode order.

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Edit that library
Go to the Advanced tab
Set episode ordering to “TheTVDB (aired)”

You can later override this library default on any individual tv show, if necessary.

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Thank you very much, I really searched for that and only ended up in several other forums via google searching for the very same question.
Changing it to TheTVDB (aired) did the trick. I really appreciate your help

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