Bug Report: PLEX improperly identifies Justice League Unlimited as Justice League in Windows 10

[kris44dad]

PLEX Version 3.23.1
Windows 10 Home

1. Name your Justice League Unlimited set using Filebot. (I’ll include my directory list for debugging.)
2. Install PLEX. (Or, I turned off PLEX, stopped the update service, and removed all the contents of Appdata/local/Plex Media server/ to force the removal of any libraries.)
3. Reboot. Start PLEX. Add JLU to library. In this case, it should be the first directory added.
4. The resulting listing will be Justice League and it’s episodes, NOT JLU.

My ‘TV Shows’ library folder as given to PLEX is “D:\Plex Media\TV Shows”. All my naming conventions should be fine. I am letting PLEX use the current install default for wherever it gets it’s metadata from. If I can use a better source for metadata, leave instructions on how to change it, and I will blow away the library, change to that, and try again.

Directory listing:
Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 68C1-6D30

 Directory of \D:\Plex Media

11/22/2017  12:06 PM              .
11/22/2017  12:06 PM              ..
11/22/2017  12:06 PM              TV Shows
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of \D:\Plex Media\TV Shows

11/22/2017  12:06 PM              .
11/22/2017  12:06 PM              ..
11/18/2017  11:41 PM              Justice League Unlimited
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of \D:\Plex Media\TV Shows\Justice League Unlimited

11/18/2017  11:41 PM              .
11/18/2017  11:41 PM              ..
11/19/2017  12:29 AM              Season 1
11/19/2017  12:30 AM              Season 2
11/19/2017  12:31 AM              Season 3
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of \D:\Plex Media\TV Shows\Justice League Unlimited\Season 1

11/19/2017  12:29 AM              .
11/19/2017  12:29 AM              ..
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       154,954,484 Justice League Unlimited - 1x01 - Initiation.mkv
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       124,791,200 Justice League Unlimited - 1x02 - For the Man Who Has Everything.mkv
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       164,596,730 Justice League Unlimited - 1x03 - Kid Stuff.mkv
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       144,447,867 Justice League Unlimited - 1x04 - Hawk and Dove.mkv
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       109,327,929 Justice League Unlimited - 1x05 - This Little Piggy.mkv
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       118,327,246 Justice League Unlimited - 1x06 - Fearful Symmetry.mkv
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       160,025,974 Justice League Unlimited - 1x07 - The Greatest Story Never Told.mkv
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       150,433,178 Justice League Unlimited - 1x08 - The Return.mkv
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       135,308,873 Justice League Unlimited - 1x09 - Ultimatum.mkv
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       172,911,374 Justice League Unlimited - 1x10 - Dark Heart.mkv
11/19/2017  12:24 AM       134,012,617 Justice League Unlimited - 1x11 - Wake the Dead.mkv
08/01/2017  07:12 PM       137,860,849 Justice League Unlimited - 1x12 - The Once and Future Thing (1).mkv
08/01/2017  07:15 PM       142,600,536 Justice League Unlimited - 1x13 - The Once and Future Thing (2).mkv
              13 File(s)  1,849,598,857 bytes

 Directory of \D:\Plex Media\TV Shows\Justice League Unlimited\Season 2

11/19/2017  12:30 AM              .
11/19/2017  12:30 AM              ..
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       119,039,328 Justice League Unlimited - 2x01 - The Cat and the Canary.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       142,827,907 Justice League Unlimited - 2x02 - The Ties That Bind.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       129,451,513 Justice League Unlimited - 2x03 - The Doomsday Sanction.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       116,723,557 Justice League Unlimited - 2x04 - Task Force X.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       135,707,518 Justice League Unlimited - 2x05 - The Balance.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       111,311,442 Justice League Unlimited - 2x06 - Double Date.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       124,051,058 Justice League Unlimited - 2x07 - Clash.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       143,832,980 Justice League Unlimited - 2x08 - Hunter's Moon.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       112,008,041 Justice League Unlimited - 2x09 - Question Authority.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       124,589,267 Justice League Unlimited - 2x10 - Flashpoint.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       118,287,319 Justice League Unlimited - 2x11 - Panic in the Sky.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM       150,395,876 Justice League Unlimited - 2x12 - Divided We Fall.mkv
11/19/2017  12:30 AM        88,845,401 Justice League Unlimited - 2x13 - Epilogue.mkv
              13 File(s)  1,617,071,207 bytes

 Directory of \D:\Plex Media\TV Shows\Justice League Unlimited\Season 3

11/19/2017  12:31 AM              .
11/19/2017  12:31 AM              ..
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       137,990,963 Justice League Unlimited - 3x01 - I Am Legion.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       139,945,905 Justice League Unlimited - 3x02 - Shadow of the Hawk.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       159,134,937 Justice League Unlimited - 3x03 - Chaos at the Earth's Core.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       151,929,120 Justice League Unlimited - 3x04 - To Another Shore.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       134,299,080 Justice League Unlimited - 3x05 - Flash and Substance.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       166,054,211 Justice League Unlimited - 3x06 - Dead Reckoning.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       170,199,866 Justice League Unlimited - 3x07 - Patriot Act.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       121,763,729 Justice League Unlimited - 3x08 - The Great Brain Robbery.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       148,345,300 Justice League Unlimited - 3x09 - Grudge Match.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       145,498,561 Justice League Unlimited - 3x10 - Far from Home.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       139,135,961 Justice League Unlimited - 3x11 - Ancient History.mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       153,494,752 Justice League Unlimited - 3x12 - Alive! (1).mkv
11/19/2017  12:31 AM       208,446,334 Justice League Unlimited - 3x13 - Destroyer (2).mkv
              13 File(s)  1,976,238,719 bytes

     Total Files Listed:
              39 File(s)  5,442,908,783 bytes
              17 Dir(s)  996,776,960,000 bytes free

[JuiceWSA]

TVDB has combined Justice League Unlimited into Justice League… as Season 03, 04 and 05:
https://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=76320&lid=7
(Note: TVDB is always doing stuff like this - best to check when something doesn’t happen the way you think it should)

You’re also disregarding Plex Guidelines for TV Show naming - continue at your own peril…:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows
… just edit your format once in Filebot - fixed (see image below).

A TV Show Library/
…Justice League (2001)/
…Season 03/
…Justice League (2001) - S03E01 - Initiation.xxx
…Justice League (2001) - S03E02.xxx
…etc

FileBot Fix - adding the (YEAR) field to all your TV Shows is the ‘new and improved’ method - highly recommended by power users and Plex Devs (since they’re the ones that messed it up trying to fix Plex DVR):

You can just ‘inject’ that ({y}) right in there and be done with it (not case sensitive - apparently).
All TV Shows with remakes/reboots will work properly and you won’t have to ‘report another bug’…

B)

[kris44dad]

Thanks. I will try it. And I did use Filebot. I don’t know why it did not use the proper convention. Will try again after the rearrange.

[BigWheel]

This isn’t a bug. TVDB just treats them as the same show it seems and what you have starts as season 3 of Justicle League. . We can’t alter what TVDB has. if you wish to ask them to separate it to a different show I think they have forums or submission for requests like that.

https://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=76320&seasonid=10135&lid=7

You can also use themoviedb rather than TVDB if you want as it looks like they have it as a separate show. https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/4431-justice-league-unlimited

do a fix incorrect match and in search options choose themoviedb instead of tvdb so it uses that for that show

( also S01E01 is correct naming not 1x01 technically , but would not have affected this issue. )

[JuiceWSA]

@kris44dad said:
Thanks. I will try it. And I did use Filebot. I don’t know why it did not use the proper convention. Will try again after the rearrange.

That’s the FileBot Default format… no biggie.
If you follow that second FileBot link in my sig you can find out all sorts of tricks - some quite handy. I like this one for my Movies:
{n} ({y}) [{vf}]
The Big Sleep (1946) [1080p]
(the actual res goes in [Brackets] - and is ignored - so as not to upset Plex…)

[kris44dad]

I was able to correct my problem reorganizing as Juice indicated. I still don’t know how to code in Filebot. I just discovered and bought the software yesterday to try and solve this. I’ll need to figure out how to open the coding interface in Filebot.

[JuiceWSA]

Click Match. Edit format. Look at my picture.

[flamebird]

Justice League and Justice League Unlimited used to be listed as two separate shows; but sometime in the last year, they changed it over at TVDB. No idea why; but they show up with episode title and description fine.