Cosmos: Possible Worlds ep 3,4 no metadata

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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@TeknoJunky
Indeed that helped, thanks! Weird though.

@JuiceWSA

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its possible that your show was originally matched to a different tvdbid, then unmatch/match pulled a new/different id.

or just a caching issue that cleared itself.

there are still weird metadata issues for various shows including this one, as you can see @ Match Failures

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The now possibly defunct: 378579 for Possible Worlds that draws no metadata:
https://thetvdb.com/series/cosmos-possible-worlds

Fix Match now goes to Cosmos 2014 Season 2 - a guess since a natural match is only achieved by the Season 02 method and no metadata is coming out of TVDB any other way.

A test would be to Fix Match to 378579 and see what happens.
I suspect you’d get a bunch of blank posters.

View the ‘wall-0-text’ in an episode XML for this passage:

<Video ratingKey="79916" key="/library/metadata/79916" parentRatingKey="77695" grandparentRatingKey="77669" guid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://260586/2/5?lang=en" parentGuid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://260586/2?lang=en" grandparentGuid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://260586?lang=en" type="episode" title="The Cosmic Connectome" titleSort="Cosmic Connectome" grandparentKey="/library/metadata/77669" parentKey="/library/metadata/77695" librarySectionTitle="TV - Shows" librarySectionID="5"

for the ID# being used at TVDB.

Mine is Cosmos (2014) - ID# 260586

What do Cosmos Possible Worlds Fix Match people see?

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Fix match is not a magical fixing thing, it’s just a search you can edit and browse through matching alternatives. Search for Cosmos: Possible Worlds. The “:” is important.

ID of the show that fixed the problem for me is: 378579. The exact show I posted in my first reply to you, where you can clearly see metadata and posters. The show it was matched to in the beginning. As i said, it was a plex issue, which is fixed now. Thanks again @TeknoJunky

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Yea I should have stated this earlier myself, it doesn’t show up without the :

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I was specifically looking for the ID# in the XML for an episode after Fix Match.

It doesn’t matter - Name it right or Fix Match - pretty much just like always.

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@JuiceWSA
I gave you the ID # in the XML.

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@Coxeroni
We know this. Did you read the thread?

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The ID# you gave doesn’t fit anything.
Was just curious what it was now that you used Fix Match so you can get posters.

It’s ok - This horse is dead - beating it further will have no effect one way or the other.

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@JuiceWSA

It does not?

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As I said, what fixed it for me was manually unmatching and then manually matching, as TeknoJunky instructed.

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They moved it to Season 2 of Cosmos (2014), so rename your episodes to S02Exx
and match to Cosmos (2014)

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So weird that you just updated this when I was trying to suss it out. Anyway, THANK YOU. It’s now sorted :slight_smile:

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Great, i hope its final.

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haha
 too many contributors with nothing else to do. :wink:

there’s been a number of shows that got a heavy makeover – it’s odd if you notice “new stuff” after a metadata refresh (simply because someone changed the order of some specials) :frowning:

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I only figured this out, when adding extra episodes, they did not get any metadata of course. so Then the search of TVDB helped.

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We, in the trade, call that:
“The TVDB Two-Week-Two-Step”

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water


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