Server Version#: 1.24.5.5173 Season 6 of American Dad is duplication with Season 5 without sharing filenames or directory paths. Screenshot below Capture|690x445

American Dad is a pain because well it just is. I think it’s a scene issue. Once you accept the episodes you get need to be correctly numbered your life will improve.

[image] slurk3k: “Plex TV Series” Okay, then you are using the new Agent, that defaults to TMDB When you edit your library , under Adv, there’s a setting named Use local assets If selected, then try for a short test and unclick it, then do the Plex Dance and report back

Even so that doesn’t really matter as TVDB and TMDB use the same episode ordering 99% of the time and the agent isn’t the issue at play since with either database the episode ordering is the same. I have never actually found a difference between the two. I have personally used TVDB as the ordering l…

[image] Blkbyrd: Even so that doesn’t really matter Never argued against that, in this case Just wanted to make sure, that people didn’t saw your response as the whole truth :wink:

This is not going to fix anything as the file ordering is incorrect. You will need to go to either The Movie Database (TMDB) (themoviedb.org) or Welcome - TheTVDB.com and match the episode ordering to one of those databases otherwise the scanning agent will continue to make a mess of your show. I pe…

Thanks for replying. I sorted the file ordering as “aired” on TVBD and now S16 hast two episodes from S18 and S18 doesn’t show at all.

[image] slurk3k: I sorted the file ordering as “aired” on TVBD As already said, the default for your library is NOT tmdb but tmdb So why on earth did you not follow that? But when said, did you make an exception then on your American Dad show, to let Plex know you changed the ordering? [tv…

[image] dane22: So why on earth did you not follow that? Before berating him for the ordering used I would make sure there is a difference. The two platforms as I have said I don’t know how many times now use the same ordering. Seems a bit out of place for a moderator…

[image] slurk3k: Thanks for replying. I sorted the file ordering as “aired” on TVBD and now S16 hast two episodes from S18 and S18 doesn’t show at all. With changing the file ordering to TVBD I also changed the Agent to “TheTVBD”. Made sense to do that for me. [image] dane22: As already…

[image] Blkbyrd: Before berating him for the ordering used I would make sure there is a difference. I did that in order to avoid exceptions, since if later moved, problem will arise And sorry if it came out brute, no prune was intended!

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Blkbyrd November 10, 2021, 12:55am 27

If you matched it to the TVDB that’s fine as the ordering is the same on both platforms. You will likely need to do another Plex Dance for the whole series to make sure that everything is scanned and matched correctly.

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