# Dueling "Suspects"

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/dueling-suspects/808830>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-windows, scanner-agent-dev, library-management\
**Created:** [September 1, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dueling-suspects/808830 "2022-09-01T01:56:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rdehaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rdehaven](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rdehaven)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 1:56am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dueling-suspects/808830/1 "2022-09-01T01:56:53Z")

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SNARK ON. 🙂

ATTENTION: There are 2 shows that appear to be detected as a single show because the word “the” in the title seems to be unused to differentiate between the shows. I ‘suspect’ that this has happened before. (see what I did there).

I was unable to find the newer show until I looked at the similarly names show and selected “SPLIT APART.”

Server Version#: 1.28.2.6151  
Player Version#: ANY

### [The Suspect (2022)]

Series #410905

> **[The Suspect - TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/the-suspect-2022)**

### [Suspect (2022)]

Series #420308

> **[Suspect (2022) - TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/suspect-2022)**

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**Author:** ![FordGuy61](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@FordGuy61](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FordGuy61)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dueling-suspects/808830/2 "2022-09-01T02:49:04Z")

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[Plex Documentation](https://support.plex.tv/articles/) → [Your Media](https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/)  
 → [Naming & Organizing Your TV Show Files](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/)  
 → [Naming & Organizing Your Movie Files](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/)

Add TMDB/TVDB ID tags to the folder names (and TMDB/IMDB ID tags to movie folder/file names). Plex will pick up the ID tags and list them separately.

```auto
/TV Shows
.../The Suspect (2022) {tvdb-410905}
....../Season 01
........./The Suspect (2022) s01e01.mkv
.../Suspect (2022) {tvdb-420308}
....../Season 01
........./Suspect (2022) s01e01.mkv

```

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**Author:** ![rdehaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/839c29/32.png) [@rdehaven](https://forums.plex.tv/u/rdehaven)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dueling-suspects/808830/3 "2022-09-01T07:19:05Z")

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> [@FordGuy61](#):
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> `Suspect (2022) {tvdb-420308}`

Thank you for sharing the solution. Much appreciated.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 7:19am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dueling-suspects/808830/4 "2022-11-30T07:19:09Z")

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