Help wiht matching Epsiode Names

[CLTGreg]

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I know this has been posted about 1000 times and I’ve got it working for Classic Doctor Who. But can anyone see what I’m doing wrong with Agatha Christie’s Poirot?

https://www.thetvdb.com/series/agatha-christies-poirot

Regardless of how many seasons I try to add Plex starts to create a Poirot folder and a second later it’s gone. If multiple seasons then the whole thing goes away and is found nowhere.

If I add just Season 01 it gets filed under Dragon Ball Z but episodes 1, 2, and 6 show correct thumbnail wise but the others show Dragon Ball Z thumbs.

Here’s what the folder looks like:

Directory of D:\PlayOn\Agatha Christie’s Poirot\Season 01

     ..

11/13/2018 02:53 AM 1,222,599,682 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - s01e01 - The Adventure of Clapham Cook.mp4
11/13/2018 04:58 AM 1,240,189,876 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - s01e02 - Murder in the Mews.mp4
11/13/2018 11:54 PM 1,222,373,132 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - s01e03 - The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly.mp4
11/14/2018 12:44 AM 1,241,093,761 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - s01e04 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds.mp4
11/15/2018 04:31 AM 1,190,671,070 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - s01e05 - The Third Floor Flat.mp4
11/15/2018 07:14 PM 1,254,632,036 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - s01e06 - Triangle at Rhodes.mp4
11/15/2018 08:05 PM 1,256,074,681 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - s01e07 - Problem at Sea.mp4
11/16/2018 11:46 PM 1,210,200,829 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - s01e08 - The Incredible Theft.mp4
11/17/2018 12:33 AM 1,134,987,296 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - s01e09 - The King of Clubs.mp4
11/17/2018 01:22 AM 1,204,610,947 Agatha Christie’s Poirot - s01e10 - The Dream.mp4

thx

[NewPlaza]

@CLTGreg

If I add just Season 01

This is wrong the way it sounds. Where does your library paths point to? (Edit library and goto add folders). What is the path?

[CLTGreg]

D:\PlayOn\Agatha Christie’s Poirot
Season 01

Is underneath and where the episodes area. I DO HAVE A CORRECTION TO MAKE. As you can see above I was wrong and the path was not directly to the season. If I change it to the season then it works. If I manually add the second season then it is added to the right place. So it appears I’ve got a pathing problem.

This works:

D:\PlayOn\Agatha Christie’s Poirot\Season 01
D:\PlayOn\Agatha Christie’s Poirot\Season 02

thx

[NewPlaza]

@CLTGreg

This works:

D:\PlayOn\Agatha Christie’s Poirot\Season 01
D:\PlayOn\Agatha Christie’s Poirot\Season 02

Please don’t think the problem is solved. You may have “patched” it but it’s not fixed.

The only path you should have is D:\PlayOn This is your ROOT path. Plex will scan anything in it and will match series from there.

EDIT: On a side note. Can you imagine the sheer number of “seasons” you will have to add to plex. That would be insane!! Adding hundreds or even thousands of season 01. season 02, etc, etc…

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[CLTGreg]

OK, changing to the root fixed the problem. I don’t understand how adding folders that are subrooted would end up mis-identifying the name of the show but yeah this is easier. There’s other content in that folder that isn’t TV so that’s why I was doing it show-by-show. But Plex just ignored that other stuff and all is well. One other show was coming up as another kid anime show so there seems to be a bias towards that when something goes wrong.

thanks

[NewPlaza]

@CLTGreg

There’s other content in that folder that isn’t TV so that’s why I was doing it show-by-show

You could do that aswell if you want. You will have to restructure your folders a bit but it can be done.
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Though I would not use this method for my “main” library. Adding hundreds of series would be a PITA.

[Xhaka]

Yep its best not to fight it.
Just keep TV based stuff and Movie based stuff in separate root folders.
The time it takes to initially organize your stuff is nothing compared to the benefits in the long term.

[CLTGreg]

That’s fine if your content grabber does it the way Plex does. But mine doesn’t. I don’t see why my original method would cause so much grief. The good news is I just have a few shows so it’s not a terrible thing and PlayOn uses the same naming convention that Plex is looking for.