Take the title as it is used on TheTVDB. If there is something in parentheses, take that too. If the title contains invalid characters (depends on your file system), like § : % *, simply leave them out.
Check the naming and the folder structure of your show. Name the top folder of the show exactly after the title on TheTVDB. No abbreviations. No additional subfolders. No aliases. Add the (year) in parentheses of when episode 1 of season 1 of this show was aired.
Name the episode files according to the above linked naming guide. Use the same title as for the top folder. Show's Title (year) - s01e01 - additional info.ext (‘- additional info’ can be left out)
After you corrected the naming and folder structure, perform the Plex Dance with all files for this show.
And to add more sauce here. Don’t look at what you got. Look at what you don’t got.
Just because plex is seeing your series doesn’t mean you can(and should) use invalid naming. It’s great the show matched but help plex out. Use the naming format set forth by plex. You will make your life alot easier!!
P.S. Don’t forget item 5 on @OttoKerner. It’s VERY important!
I’m not the OP, but… what’s incorrect? TheTVDB uses the year as the season for large animated shorts collections, so 1928 is actually the season according to the scraper. I’m pretty sure I used the 1x1 naming convention a lot without issue (I think I went back and forth depending on how many episodes I had to rename and if I started the series with XBMC or something). Is using the s01e01 format mandatory? The title is correct according to TheTVDB also.
Because in the folder Disney Animated shorts, i’ve got 459 shorts.
They are all named the same way.
Each years are in a specifif folder names : Season YYYY
And all episodes have the same name format :
Disney Animated shorts - YYYYxNB - short’s name
On all his episodes, going from 1921 to 2016, only those of before 1930 have a problem, only 19 which are not recognized.
Why this difference?
Why this is not reconized (Disney Animated shorts - 1928x11 - Plane Crazy) and this (Disney Animated shorts - 2014x04 - The Adorable Couple) don’t show any problems ?
It dawns on me its the PLEX software I bet. Many OS’s and Databases like Excel use dates like this:
If you enter a date with a two-digit year in a text formatted cell or as a text argument in a function, such as =YEAR(“1/1/31”), Excel interprets the year as follows:
00 through 29 is interpreted as the years 2000 through 2029. For example, if you type the date 5/28/19 , Excel assumes the date is May 28, 2019.
30 through 99 is interpreted as the years 1930 through 1999. For example, if you type the date 5/28/98 , Excel assumes the date is May 28, 1998.
There must not be a “Pre-1930” condition on the DB and for some reason cannot handle the future dates either. Even using 4 digit years seems to mess things up. I bet the date is stored/compared as 2 digits
This shows you how to set Windows OS (7-10)to recognize specific dates. I do not know if these settings will allow PLEX to use the dates or not.
