I’ve ripped my Looney Tunes Golden Collection and imported it into Plex, but the episode names are not showing up correctly. I read previous posts about this topic. The best solution I could find was in this post: Easy Guide to Looney Tunes Golden Collection. I followed all the instructions in that post just as they are written, but the episode names still don’t display correctly.
The screenshot is from the first season, Season 1930, but the videos are named like this in all of the seasons (i.e. they just say ‘Episode 2’ instead of the real name of the episode, ‘Congo Jazz’).
Here is what the directory structure looks like (I’ll use the 1930 season as an example, again):
D:__Media for Plex\TV\Looney Tunes\1930
And here are the files in that directory:
Looney Tunes - S1930E02 - Congo Jazz.m4v
Looney Tunes - S1930E04 - The Booze Hangs High.m4v
Does anyone have any ideas how to get the episode names to display correctly?
You must embed the episode title into the files as meta tags.
You can use e.g. mp3tag to do it.
With a bit of experimentation, you can even build a renaming pattern which takes your file name and extracts the episode title from it, which it then writes into the meta tag. (Convert > Filename - Tag, use this string %dummy% - %dummy% - %title%)
This can do the embedding for all files in one swoop.
side note: the season folder should really be named Season 1930
You are doing pretty much what I’m doing. Just using the normal Thetvdb agent in the library settings. And they are not tagged with the episode name in the metadata. Some of these are AVI files and MP3TAG shows them as blank. The important thing is the file name and probably having Season in the folder name.
L:\TV Shows\Animated\Looney Tunes\Season 1930
Only thing different is my directory says “Season 1930”
Looney Tunes - S1930E01 - Sinkin’ in the Bathtub.mkv
Looney Tunes - S1930E02 - Congo Jazz.avi
Looney Tunes - S1930E03 - Hold Anything.mkv
Looney Tunes - S1930E04 - The Booze Hangs High.avi
Looney Tunes - S1930E05 - Box Car Blues.mkv
Thanks for both of these suggestions. Before going through the work of editing the meta tags, I tried replicating the exact setup of tramp78. I deleted my current library. (The library only contains my Looney Tunes collection.) I restructured my folders to copy tramp78’s structure. Here is the file path of Season 1930 Episode 2 on my computer:
D:__Media for Plex\TV Shows\Animated\Looney Tunes\Season 1930\Looney Tunes - S1930E02 - Congo Jazz.m4v
Then, I created a new library. Now, Plex doesn’t even recognize the videos as Looney Tunes. It calls them “Hellboy Animated”.
I don’t know why I’m getting such different results, when I have things setup just as others do.
Edit this library, go to the ‘Add Folders’ tab, make sure it is looking at D:__Media for Plex\TV Shows\Animated
and not at D:__Media for Plex\TV Shows\Animated\Looney Tunes directly.
Shudder.
Use the command I described above to change them all at once
(you must ‘select’ all the files for mp3tag to work on all of them)
I deleted the library. I put the files back into the original file structure. (The structure in which Plex recognized the videos as Looney Tunes but didn’t show episode names.) The file path now looks like this:
D:__Media for Plex\TV\Looney Tunes\Season 1930\Looney Tunes - S1930E02 - Congo Jazz.m4v
I edited the meta tags of both files I have in the Season 1930 folder, so that the Title tag is the episode name. They look like this in mp3tag:
Before creating a new library again, I moved out all folders except Season 1930. This means there are only two files in the library, and both files have the episode title written into the meta tag.
(I’ll continue in a separate post, so that I can insert another photo. BTW, how long does it take before new members can post more than one picture?)
Each time I create the library, I just walk through the setup process, giving the library a name and then pointing it to the TV folder. I don’t modify any other settings. So, everything should be set to default settings.
I’m about to leave the house for a few hours. Each of you have been so helpful and quick to respond to my questions. Hopefully, I can get back to this thread later this evening and figure things out.
Sorry, this shows only the settings of the Personal Media Shows agent.
Since your library uses TheTVDB agent, you must click on ‘TheTVDB’ under Shows, to see the settings of this agent.
OttoKerner, I think I do have the Local Media Assets agent activated under
Settings - Server - Agents - TV Shows - TheTVDB. This is a screenshot of the setting I think you were referring to:
NewPlaza, thanks for the advice about waiting for Plex to update the information. When I first imported all 356 Looney Tunes episodes, the library was in place for about 4 or 5 days and I still didn’t see episode names showing up. However, I didn’t check all the episodes. I didn’t realize the episode names would show up progressively. Maybe some of them had shown up. The ones I was specifically checking had not shown up. Now I only have two videos in the library. They are the two episodes in the Season 1930 folder. That library has been established a few hours now. The episode names are still not showing up. Maybe they’ll show up overnight or tomorrow. I assume with only a couple of files, the process would be a little quicker. Or, do you think it could still take a few days?
Well, I had four episodes and it took a more than a couple of days(after 3 days I forgot to look again, then saw them populated about a week later).
So…
OK. Thanks. I didn’t realize it could take that long. If there’s nothing else I can try, I’ll just keep an eye on it and hopefully the episode names will eventually appear. Thanks for the heads up about needing to wait.
I have had the Looney Tunes episodes in my library for over a week, and Plex still does not display the episode titles. For 8 days I have left Plex open in my browser. I have also left my laptop on constantly for these 8 days, even over night.
The Looney Tune episodes are still listed like this:
I’m limiting the number of episodes I add to the library, hoping that will allow Plex to process the videos more quickly. I have the two episodes shown above in the 1930 season. I also have one other set of episodes, which are in the 1953 season. I added this second set of episodes just in case there was something wrong with the two episodes in the 1930 season, causing Plex to not be able to show their titles. Unfortunately, the episodes in the 1953 season also do not appear with their titles. They look like this:
I assume a week is sufficient time for Plex to process my library and begin showing episode titles. Has anyone seen plex take longer than a week to do this? What else could be causing this issue?
One thing I’ve noticed is that when I go into Plex and select an episode and then view the episode’s metadata, the tags are empty. Specifically, the Title tag is empty, even though I have used MP3Tag to set the Title tag to contain the episodes’s title.
Here’s what the metadata looks like for Episode 2 in MP3tag:
What does it mean that the metadata is empty in Plex? Does that mean Plex just hasn’t processed the files, even after a week? Or does that mean the files are somehow messed up and Plex can’t even read the metadata that I wrote to the files using MP3tag?
Thanks, again, in advance for any help that can be offered.
I don’t know much about mp3tag but I would try and use Windows file properties to modify the metadata. Here is a link that explains how. It’s for pictures but the idea is the same.
Thanks for this tip. However, I had already used Windows 10 to double-check the metadata before I put the files in my Plex library. Here is what Windows 10 showed for the files before I put them in the library and what Windows 10 still shows:
