I have ripped a DVD of Sanford and Son episodes. I have named the files “Sanford and Son.s03e01.mkv” and so on. Plex assigns “Sanford and Son: Season 3 Disc 1” as the episode title for each item. How can I get Plex to assign the correct episode title?
I’m using Plex Server on a Mac Pro.
Looks like ‘therenamer’ is Windows only.
Naming and organizing your media files the Plex way will help it match them versus an info source:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows
Things got much better on my Plex server since I switched over from the previous DNLA friendly manner I was using. Here’s how mine look now:
I go the full route and include the episode name (optional) and I put a media label on the end of the file name (also optional)
@CWallace said:
Looks like ‘therenamer’ is Windows only.Naming and organizing your media files the Plex way will help it match them versus an info source:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows
Things got much better on my Plex server since I switched over from the previous DNLA friendly manner I was using. Here’s how mine look now:
I go the full route and include the episode name (optional) and I put a media label on the end of the file name (also optional)
Oops. Sorry.
Try Filebot for batch renaming. It’s available for MacOS
Thanks for responding.
Currently, I have the files saved as such:
/TV Shows
/Sanford and Son
/Season 3
Sanford and Son.s03e01.m4v
Sanford and Son.s03e02.m4v
Sanford and Son.s03e03.m4v
I manually renamed them to:
Sanford and Son - S03E01 - Lamont as Othello - DVD.m4v
Sanford and Son - S03E02 - Libra Rising All Over Lamont - DVD.m4v
Sanford and Son - S03E03 - Fred, the Reluctant Fingerman - DVD.m4v
I clicked “…” and selected Empty Trash. I clicked “…” again and selected Refresh All Metadata.
The episode titles are still named Sanford and Son: Season 3 Disc 1
I’ve never had a problem until recently with Plex assigning the correct metadata to episodes.
It seems that either Plex is not assigning the correct episode title or the metadata it uses is incorrect. The data on thetvdb.com is correct.
Check Settings>Server>Agents to make sure nothing appears out of the ordinary there.
Trying to think of other areas where settings could matter.
Potentially try to Fix Match? Are the rest of your shows working ok?
@AmazingRando24 said:
Check Settings>Server>Agents to make sure nothing appears out of the ordinary there.
Trying to think of other areas where settings could matter.
Potentially try to Fix Match? Are the rest of your shows working ok?
Thanks for responding.
I checked Settings>Server>Agents. Nothing looks out of the way.
I just deleted my TV Shows Library. I then Libraries>Clean Libraries and Libraries>Empty Trash.
Afterwards, I setup TV shows Library and initially, Sanford and Son Season 3 appeared as:
After Plex finished processing, Sanford and Son Season 3 appeared as:
I used the Fix Match option to no avail.
I will fix the Episode Titles manually.
I recall someone somewhere stating that if the file has a title in it’s metadata, Plex may favor that. I wonder if there’s an option in your RIP software to prevent that?
Typically when you see something like this it means the software you used to rip the episodes from disc put the “Sanford and Son: Season 3 Disc x” as the title for each episode inside the files internal metadata.
Normally you can fix this by removing that metadata and then re-adding the episodes, or unchecking local media agent for the agent used by that TV Library.
@jmckee said:
Typically when you see something like this it means the software you used to rip the episodes from disc put the “Sanford and Son: Season 3 Disc x” as the title for each episode inside the files internal metadata.Normally you can fix this by removing that metadata and then re-adding the episodes, or unchecking local media agent for the agent used by that TV Library.
I use MakeMKV to rip my DVD and then use Handbrake to convert to m4v files. Apparently, MakeMKV is adding metadata.
None the less, I continued researching this nasty problem and found a solution that works.
See:
@JediAndi said:
I spent a little too much of my time this week trying to workaround a very similar problem, all sorts of weird metadata conflicts.
Turns out there is a fairly simple fix for it all.
Open up your Plex Media Server Dashboard > Click the ‘Settings’ Icon (top right) > Click the ‘Server’ tab > Select the ‘Agents’ section > Select ‘Shows’ > ‘TheTVDB’ > Drag “Local Media Assets (TV)” to the bottom and "The TVDB to the top. This will override the local metadata and pull in the data from the TVDB source which is, in my experience, pretty reliable and accurate.
Hope this helps!
Late to an old post, but I was also struggling with this. I’ve identified the rogue data (exactly same format as yours) as coming from the Title field in the Tags tab within handbrake. However JediAndy’s work around is more than sufficient to compensate. Thanks!
That did it! I was also using MakeMKV or AnyDVD+HandBrake to rip mine and the titles would initially appear for the episodes when they were first detected by Plex, but then would be overwritten by Disc 1 or something similar. Moving the priorities for episode naming fixed everything! Much appreciated!
Worked!
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