Sometimes, especially in animes, the different seasons are give unique names and are not merely labeled season 1, 2, 3, etc… Then I have to match the series with the original name of the series and Plex then thinks it’s the first season of the series. Because of reasons, for example seeding the folder, I cannot simply rename the folder. So this kind of feature would be really helpful.
Though I understand this is probably not a priority feature, I thought I should still throw it out here in case in the distant future some Plex developer for some reason can’t figure out what to develope next. For the time being I guess I’ll just make a script to easily create a linked directory.
I know this suggestion is already a bit dated.
Do you see this actually covered with the new Plex TV Series scanner having an option to download season names from The Movie Database or TheTVDb. I’m aware that based on the policies of those repositories, you can actually end up with anime that are spread across different shows instead of named seasons (e.g. Ghost in the Shell SAC vs. Arise) – though from what I’ve seen most shows where different arcs are grouped by their own names are actually represented as seasons of the same show.
Interesting. How do I exactly enable and use it though? I failed to find such option while browsing the server settings. Can it be used to arbitrarily match what’s currently non-matched separate series to a certain season of a series or does it only work through automatic recognition if the directory name matches some season name?
Found it and upgraded. It wasn’t showing on my Plex Media Player but opening in the web view in browser revealed it to me.
Though I think you misunderstood my problem a bit. I believe this new feature only allows to replace the season names when the episodes are already matched to that particular season, while my problem was that it doesn’t match the episodes to the correct season based on the season name either on the season directory or episode files.
To be fair… you cannot mix & merge shows and seasons that don’t have corresponding metadata in some repository. You cannot tell Plex that season two of a show you added to your library is actually season one of a different show. That’s why I mentioned you might need to look around to find an entry that’s organizing accordingly.
This can work out by using the episode order from The Movie Database. While TVDb often has separate shows for the individual story arks of an anime, TMDb tend to keep them as different seasons of the overarching series (e.g. using the ark names as season titles — or at the very least you can name the seasons within a combined show on your own).
The new agent is a big improvement, thanks for this. Its fixed a lot.
Unfortunately this request is still needed for some of the more tricky edge cases
The most notable one would be
Show_name season 01/01
Show_name season 2/01
Show_name s03/01
Its a bit unfair on plex to figure out how to regex this, there may be more but i haven’t found them yet
The tv agent sometimes wont populate files into a tv library when it does not know what to do the episode structure instead of showing up as a bad match. This is kind of important say for a movie landing in the wrong folder. Possible ova and movies missing. Figuring out where to put documentary’s and news reports can be tricky as well. If you want an example of this grab a bunch of YouTube rips, dump them in a folder and point the tv scanner at it. (its not a server codec issue)
Unfortunately plex webtools no longer works for finding this, it outputs every file in the library. library filters don’t have an option to show missing just unmatched. The new webtools-ng while very interesting cant really help by design for this.
Then mouse hover over the episode and click on the tower of 3 dots in the bottom left
Click on get info to see the raw files underneath if its an overlapping season then close
Then click on the show name to bring you to its main page
Beside the play button click on the ... for more
Click on Split apart
After we split the offending seasons apart.
To back to your tv libary click on the library name on the top left (not in the menu bar)
Then set the filters back to normal being All and Tv Shows and By title
Then click on one of the split tv shows,
Then mouse hover on the season inside the split tv show. Click the edit pen showing up inside the season poster.
Then click info, check the raw file name
Then click general.
Under title we currently change Season 1 to Season 2 for example. Whats needed here is a new box under that. “Sort title” Drop Season 2 in there and lock it
All episodes in the season should inherit this.
After that’s done (and any other offending seasons for this show)
We would then go back to the main tv library.
Fix match on all the split tv seasons from the same show.
Metadata will match it all properly once it knows oh that one is season 2.
Sure we can rename files, work over ssh/sftp/sshfs. I just like my hashes, hop servers every so often and check all is at it should be. Wrangling chaos is sometimes better done with the database inside whatever client you use to source your files.
Most of all if suitably anonymized id rather identify everything correctly then push either the file name/audio fuzzy hash gets pushed back up to plex. Deeper analysis could be reserved for unmatched/duplicates of the initial library population scan. Crowd sourcing the would be authoritative there would need to be a volumetric threshold of x% of people fixed this to be y, so it must be y. Match for every one else.
The last layer of organization i guess would be something like ##!*movies* regex in .plexignore to cause plex to ignore a specific directory for a specific library in a large collection. Im still lost in chaos online and offline to get anywhere near that level of granularity for a long time.
Here is the request with audio matches that was mentioned earlier .
