Show titles come from IMDb when they exist there.
I’m not entirely sure how translations work when IMDb doesn’t have them - @adriana will likely know more in this regard.
Does anyone known how season level fanart (backgrounds) works with the new agent? Which sources influence it within plex.
Have some shows where I’m getting season specific fanart and others don’t so am curious where plex is getting its data from?
Using Brooklyn 99 as an example… Season 2 background has one choice available - but there’s no background set at TMDB (my selected source) or at TVDB … but the background image that shows up IS the same as the one at TraktTV … which I thought was pulling from TMDB … so I have no idea. I know some of the metadata is failover between the different sources but I can’t always pinpoint some of it.
Oh TraktTV, didn’t think of that one as I’ve never heard of it with plex as a source before.
Some of the season fanart is odd so I might just need to set it all locally. Bit of work but better in the long run.
Fanart.tv is likely the source.
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Fanart.tv doesn’t do per season references so for the Brooklyn 99 Season 2 example the poster and background go together and the background available is the only option …
Hoping to get a good understanding of sourcing so I know where I can contribute art\updates for these types of things in the future (and in this case seems like a failover since TVDB and TMDB didn’t have background art for B99S2).
Edit: it’s entirely possible the poster and background matching is coincidence…
So it is fanart.tv alright but I’m trying to figure out what is making something season specific. One example I have is https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/66023-marcella. For this show I have a different season fanart background for each season. These are not local assets (yet) so plex itself is setting them based on what its got from its sources. I’m trying to figure out what logic its using based on the sources to define which is for which season.
For the most part it is fixed. I do have 3 specials for The Walking Dead that are not on either themoviedb or thetvdb. It will not pick up their local metadata.
I can’t figure out how to match the original cartoons of the pink panther. I have the episodes organized exactly like reported on the tv db The Pink Panther - TheTVDB.com.
If i search tvdb-71554 it finds the tv show of year 1993 wich is different. Am i missing something?
Did you try using the IMDB ID or the TMDB ID? From what I’ve been following you can use any ID and it should link back to ‘an’ entry in the Plex Metadata db. Maybe the TVDB ID is pointing to the incorrect Plex entry. But maybe one of the others wouldn’t. I’d probably try putting one of the others into the “Fix Match” box and see if that brings up the correct entry. Then you could tag your folder on disc.
Just my 2 cents. Good luck!
Chris
The problem is that release of the pink panther is only on TheTVDB, i can’t find it on IMDB nor TheMovieDB. It’s on wikipedia tho lol
@arktay I think its this show on IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063939. Try and search using imdb-tt0063939 and see if that finds it.
EDIT: done a quick search myself and it finds the 1993 version. This looks like a backend problem so the plex folks will need to report and fix this one.
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That’s not it. For example the 2nd episode of this The Pink Panther Show (TV Series 1969–2011) - IMDb is “Pinto Pink” which is the 32th here The Pink Panther - Aired Order - Season 1 - TheTVDB.com
EDIT: just saw your edit ^^
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Not sure where this photo of Mike Henry came from - but it’s wrong - I think that guy being dead would slow down his appearances in Family Guy:
Will the real Mike Henry (currently living) please stand up?:
Also not sure how he appeared in 645 episodes when there’s only been 279, but that’s above my TMDB pay grade. If we can fix the image, we’ll let TMDB figure that one out.
Lastly:
Mike Henry (many regular voices) absolutely ranks higher than Ralph Garman (Mort).
Thanks, have filed the issue for the incorrect thumbnail.
The cast improvements for shows is something that is not yet done, it should improve quite a bit when that work is complete.
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This is a bit of confusing one as it looks to be causing some weirdness because IMDb has all Pink Panther episodes under this one show.
What looks to work here is in Fix Match, search for “The Pink Panther Show” with year 1969, you should get a few matches back like this:
The first one in this list looks to be the correct one which returns the correct TVDB episode listing (assuming that’s how you have the ordering set).
I’ll open an issue for this one to see how we can handle cases like this better.
That worked, now i don’t have any unmatched episode! Thank you 
hopefully, network will be introduces soon on tv shows’ front UI. Currently, only through the filters can the network be found or if a user makes a collection.
Just following up - are show images not updating after a refresh part of this open issue being worked out?
Also noticed previous correct updated images not displaying anymore:
Should I chalk any various oddities with episode title cards to Plex working through the known issue for now or are additional logs/info useful?
I have sussessfully rolled out the Beta agent for my TV Shows.
However, there is a confirmed issue the the Beta Plex Agent as described here:
My old Documentaries TV Library, which uses the legacy TVDB Agent pulls NOVA metadata correctly as below - Reference Episode 14
as opposed to the Documentaries (New) Library, which uses the BETA agent (set to prioritize TVDB episode order)
Here is the reference in thetvdb
I also made sure to do a fix match by matching to “thetvdb-76119”.
The episode title the Beta agent pulled is not even listed for this season…
I also confirmed that this episode in not listed this way in tmdb, just in case.
Another example can be seen here with multiple episodes
Legacy Agent
thetvdb listing
Beta Agent
I hope these examples help. As a system integration Project Manager, I can appreciate how a good description and examples would help software debugging.
One last thing - file naming follows the consistent naming convention {SERIES TITLE] - s[SEASON #]e[EPISODE #] - [TITLE]
Also, I have confirmed that the files do not have internal metadata. They are clean.
