Can Plex support non-seasonal show collections? (i.e. Looney Tunes: Platinum Collection)

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Hello,

I can’t find a way to automatically (or even manually) assign metadata to a TV show packaged as volumes, rather than seasons. Example:

Looney Tunes: Platinum Collection, Vol. 1

Plex issues with supporting this content:

  • Plex can’t find the correct metadata — not surprising, since it’s a collection vs. a TV show per se

  • Plex seemingly only supports “Season” folders, not “Volume” folders

  • Although I’ve given episodes actual names (“Looney Tunes_ Platinum Collection, Vol. 1 - S01E01 - Hare Tonic”) as part of their filename, Plex isn’t using them

  • There’s no apparent way to define correct metadata manually using external files (I don’t want to use Plex’s “pencil” tool, because it’s temporarily to the database)

Does Plex have a way of supporting collections like this?

— Charles

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If you want it to be scraped as a tv show you need to follow thetvdb layout as such

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=72514&lid=7

Ie S1940E01. The program Filebot can help to a degree, but it will req some manual labour.

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The note’s much appreciated, and thank you for the FileBot recommendation!

Unfortunately, this collection doesn’t appear in TheTVDB.

With other media management apps (e.g. Lightroom), I can have “sidecar” XML files with metadata. That would be a solution, but Plex doesn’t appear to support a similar feature. Can anyone confirm that I’m not just missing it?

— Charles

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Tvdb only has one entry per show ref https://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?t=9174 - not much plex can do about that sorry.

Afaik there’s no such option with sidecar xml. Look at the local assers and see if that helps https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220717-Local-Media-Assets-TV-Shows

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I translated my Looney Tunes collection to the season format.
That way it works.

see https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1054772/#Comment_1054772

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I translated my Looney Tunes collection to the season format.

Thanks for the workaround, I’ll give it a try.

My wish for the Plex team is that they’d enhance local media assets support to include a way to specify metadata locally via sidecar files. (First world problems, etc.)

— Charles

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I took a different tack. I made a Cartoon folder & ripped the cartoons with the title "Cartoon_Title (years).ext. I then created a Cartoon library for Movies rather than TV. IMDB found all the cartoons easy. I like this better because I don’t have to figure out which “season” a cartoon is in in order to watch it.

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@Parkerbel said:
I took a different tack. I made a Cartoon folder & ripped the cartoons with the title "Cartoon_Title (years).ext. I then created a Cartoon library for Movies rather than TV. IMDB found all the cartoons easy. I like this better because I don’t have to figure out which “season” a cartoon is in in order to watch it.

Thank you for this idea! I just created a Bugs Bunny folder with your method and it worked great. It’s gonna take a while to go through all 297 files I ripped from the Golden Collection and put them in the proper libraries, but it will be worth it when I’m done!