What folder did you give Plex? If both shows are in a ‘TV Shows’ folder, make sure that’s what you give Plex, not the individual show folders, and not a higher-level parent folder (e.g., if you have /Media/TV/SomeSubfolder/Tatort (1970), make sure you give Plex /Media/TV/SomeSubfolder/, not /Media/TV/).
From the naming article you linked above, you have to give Plex “the folder that contains each of the individual show folders.” With what you’ve given, it sees the season folders as the individual show folders, which is why it’s grouping episodes from unrelated shows together. It still gets things right some of the time due to other context clues, but as you’re experiencing, there are no guarantees.
I have some more content on TV that is not always “TV shows” so I add any folder containing a tv show individually as shown above.
You’ll either have to reorganize things so that your TV folder only contains things you want Plex to scan, or use a .plexignore file to exclude files/folders you don’t want Plex to scan in.
@DTR:
OK, happy too soon.
I reorganzied the files EXACTLY the way, TVDB says to do and EXACTLY following the sheme on https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/ - but the result is annoying:
Sometimes scanner takes data from TVDB,
sometimes (mostly!) scanner takes data from TMDB,
sometimes scanner takes no data at alls (and name the episodes just “Episode 13” or something like that, though the exact code (ShowName - SxxExx - Title) is given.
What frustrates me:
I can’t see any “scheme” behind this to understand how scanner works.
Some friends suggested to ignore TVDB completely and to organize my file just the way TVMB says it, BUT:
This is in opposite to the above mentioned plex rules of naming
This would mean to put a lot work of database maintainance for myself in TMDB (for as I see they are really not good and up to date in German TV Shows, there TVDB is much better)
This would in conclusion lead to the question:
Why Plex scanner uses TVDB at all if also the TV Shows data is pulled from TVMB anyway?!
In anyway:
Is there anyway to see how the scanner behaves like it does?
I can’t do anything more than naming my files 1:1 as the Plex documentation asks me (and to follow the TVDB rules).
Many thanks - some kind of frustrated right now (after 5 days of trying to solve the problem by myself and reading docs).
Yes, I read and understood - and I set the ordering from this shows to TVDB (Aired).
BUT; It only takes the order (as the option says) from TVDB and the title and other metadata from one source or the other.
So is the truth I have NO chance to influence if the scanner takes TVDB or TMDB (even if I choose the particular “TVDB” order) ?
In fact, this would be an answer, too, and I could stop trying
While using the Plex TV Series agent, you have no control what particular piece of metadata Plex will use from what source.
You can use the legacy agents for one specific source… but those have their own limitations and are no longer updated. Also, there’s a chance they’ll be discontinued/removed for good at some point.
