Noticed this issue mentioned here a few days ago and I myself just ran into this issue. I believe it is in fact a bug. I am not the original poster for this issue.
For me, it was the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery. Filebot confirmed that both TVDB and TVMaze said it should be: showname - 2x11 - episodename. All shows are named this way and haven’t had an issue. Plex has never had an issue in my experience using this naming scheme… until this episode 11 issue popped up. If I rename it to 02x11 it fixes it. I am wondering if the dash ‘-’ is in fact making it think it is a negative season number due to a typo/bug. Note that there is a space after the dash, in case you were wondering.
I also have never had to do episodes as s02e11 before, and none of the shows that work perfectly fine have an ‘s’ or ‘e’ either. It has always worked as 2x11 and it isn’t taking away any episodes that were already on the server with that naming convention - only new ones apparently.
Filebot doesn’t dictate the filename. It only renames them to the specifications of the user. By default, Filebot uses the Kodi format. You need to tell it to use the Plex format: Plex naming schemes for FileBot
Please clarify how large is too large. It’s likely very useful information to know when suddenly a naming scheme it never had an issue with is suddenly an issue after a certain point.
It’s interesting how this hasn’t been a topic that’s existed before until the last week or so - specific to episode 11s for multiple people and not any other numbered episodes. It also doesn’t have an issue with any other shows that already have an episode 11 with the naming scheme I was using.
What is it about size that affects episode 11s specifically?
I didn’t say “too large”. I said “larger”.
There is no clearly defined boundary.
As I said: if you want Plex to reliably recognise your media, stick to the pre-scribed naming schema. They are clearly documented.
I also did not state you said ‘too large’ and would like further clarification on this issue and perhaps how you came upon the problem being related to size with no boundary.
From what I see in your link it’s one person…and you.
But criticallly you are both using bad naming.
Two people using correct naming seeing the same thing is a different matter.
The bottom line is 30000 episodes named wrong but being correctly identified, then cool.
When episode 30001 isn’t… it’s not because something is broke.
It’s because there are 30001 files named wrong.
That’s completely true if we ignore it is multiple shows with the same exact episode number all within a recent update across multiple servers with an unbound size limit given as one of the reasons for it.
Let me clarify the size limit .
Nothing to do with library size itself.
Just the mathematical chances of it happening as the library size increases.
Far higher chances than two people posting and coincidentally quoting episode 11
As for multiple shows, your link shows an issue with Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Your issue is a different show. So that’s two not multiple. Unless I didn’t read the link thoroughly enough and there’s more cases.
But you’re still missing the point. You both have one thing in common and it’s been pointed out several times.
Sorry but I’m done now.
Yeah I just quickly re read.
Including one that you mentioned that his issue is episode 10. So between the two of you 4 shows with issues always with episode 11.
Apart from the one of those 4 that isn’t episode 11.
It’s clear you would rather keep posting than be pro active in resolving the issue…So I really am done now.
Already resolved the issue on my end, but I wanted clarification as indicated. Pretty crazy coincidences, plus the vague reasoning initially given caused more questions.
