I have the complete series 1-7 of the new Doctor Who (Eccleston - Tennant).
When detecting they all show S01E01 -> S07E__ as Classic Doctor Who (starting in 1963).
File structure matches TVDB. As…
PLEX
-Shared TV Shows
–Doctor Who
— Doctor Who (2005)
-----Season 01
---------- Doctor Who (2005) - S01E01 - Rose
-----Season 02
----------Doctor Who (2005) - S02E01 - {Title}
You have one directory level too many. That first Doctor Who directory under Shared TV Shows shouldn’t be there; Doctor Who (2005) should be directly under Shared TV Shows. As it is now, Plex is matching against “Doctor Who” not “Doctor Who (2005),” which is why it is selecting the classic series.
After correcting this, you may need to perform the Plex Dance on the series to get it to be detected properly. Or just do a Fix Match at the show level.
On other Plex Media Server host types where you can customize the library folders (Windows, Linux, macOS, etc…) it would be possible. But since WD mandates the folder locations for each library type, I don’t think so.
Thanks - almost have it going; the title metadata is still not correct, even after forcing match. I did find about bundles and am trying that step as well in the dance.
Hmm… I’m not sure what’s going on there. Did you perform the full Plex Dance? That is, move the entire series out of your library path, scan, empty trash, clean bundles, double check naming (the naming in your file system screenshot is perfect), move it back, and scan? Plex has a way of holding on to a match once it thinks it’s gotten it right.
One other thing: If these are MP4 files, try demoting Local Media Assets in priority for your TVDB and TMDB agents in Plex’s settings. Do this before the dance:
Those are located under Settings -> Agents -> Shows.
I just noticed you have your specials mixed in with the season. Those should be pulled out into a “Season 00” folder and named according to TVDB, if they have them. Otherwise number them as S00Ennn, where nnn is higher than the highest numbered special on TVDB:
Oh, okay - I doubt that’s causing the issue (I have West Wing saved similar into the Season, those are actually DVD extras, not specials… I see TVDB has the Christmas specials as Season 00).
Good deal. MP4 files can have embedded tags for the title which, by default, Plex will prefer to use for matching over the file name. Demoting local media assets changes that behavior. Another option would have been to edit your files’ tags to delete or correct them.
