How to show title of Looney Tunes episodes

[Danny_DeLoach]

Thanks for all this help. Hopefully we can figure out what’s going on.

@leelynds

Totally stumped. Just brainstorming…

It looks like you only have 2 TV libraries from your screen shots, both are for Looney Tunes.

Since it ain’t working, and I don’t think waiting for metadata is going to happen, delete both libraries. Empty trash, Clean bundles and optimize the database. Then start over. I noticed you first folder has a name with underscores – it shouldn’t make a difference, but just create a “TV Shows” folder. Maybe Plex is stalling with the underscores.

Then, under “TV Shows” create your “Looney Tunes” folder, with a “Season 30” and finally a file inside that folder with the actual episode with all of the metadata removed.

Create a new library pointed to “TV Shows” and let’s hope it all works.

• I deleted both libraries
• I emptied the trash
• I cleaned bundles
• I optimized the database
• I created a new folder structure with no underscores
  • It looks like this
  • “D:\TV Shows\Looney Tunes\Season 30\Looney Tunes - S1930E02 - Congo Jazz.mkv”
• I put the mkv file in the folder, not the m4v file, because (from what I’m hearing) the mkv files are more straightforward for Plex to tag. The mkv file I put in the folder is the one with all tags removed.
• I created a new library and pointed it to the new folder

Sadly, there are still no episode titles in Plex:

I’ll add some extra information and respond to earlier questions.

I have set Agents to use only TheTVDB. I did this, because I gathered that the Local Media Assets (TV) agent could potentially cause trouble. Instead of just putting it under TheTVDB, I un-checked it.

Response to earlier posts:

@OttoKerner

Of course.
Plex server is running on your computer. Not on some “cloud” place.

OK. Thanks. This helps me better understand how Plex works.

@NewPlaza

Why don’t you add a new episode that’s a MKV to season 1930. See if Plex will detect it, match it, and downloads the info for it.

As described at the beginning of this post, I have added and mkv file (with no tags) to the 1930 season. I don’t have a ‘new file’, meaning I don’t have any episodes which I have never imported in to Plex. When I started the whole process by following this post, Easy Guide to Looney Tunes Golden Collection, I imported all of my files (as m4v) into Plex. So, the ‘Looney Tunes - S1930E02 - Congo Jazz.mkv’ file is new in that Plex had not previously seen an mkv version of this file, but the episode is not new to Plex. I don’t have any additional Looney Tunes episodes that were not ripped and imported into Plex as part of my original process.

@tramp78

There is no need to have the Title in the metadata for PLEX to sort the file properly. Plex is looking at the title of the file and the folder name as well as what TYPE of library it is and which agents you have for that type of library.
I have a library for TV shows that are animated.
If you edit that library and look under advanced the Agent is TheTVDB
Directory path
Z:\TV Shows\Animated\Looney Tunes\Season 1930\Looney Tunes - S1930E01 - Sinkin’ in the Bathtub.mkv

TV show is called Looney Tunes
That’s it. Build a test library for TV and create a folder somewhere called “Looney Tunes”. Put a folder in there called “Season 1930”
Drop ANY video file in that folder and call it “S1930E01” (I grabbed a movie from my library)
Save it.

I just did this and it shows as Looney tunes, season 1930, Sinkin’ in the bathtub.
Metadata on that movie has all the correct metadata for that cartoon EXCEPT is says it is 1 hour and 38 minutes long and HD. It has the right title, sorting title, director, description. It gets all of that from TheTVDB, not the metadata (if there is any) in the file itself. Some media file types don’t even allow for metadata.

• I did the Plex dance.
• I edited my file structure, adding an ‘Animated’ folder under ‘TV Shows’.
  • “D:\TV Shows\Animated\Looney Tunes\Season 30\Looney Tunes - S1930E02 - Congo Jazz.mkv”
• I created a new library
• I checked the Agent setting for the library

• As noted above, the global Agent setting for Shows is already set to TheTVDB

• I pointed the new library at the Animated folder

Unfortunately, there still are no episode titles:

@NewPlaza

Are you having any trouble with any other series? Is looney tunes the only one?

The only files I have to add to Plex are from the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. I could rip a different DVD and see what happens. I guess that may be my next step, if we can’t figure out what’s happening with these Looney Tunes files.

@Pov_goose

Unless you have local assets first in the list plex uses the filename for metadata matching. It only uses the embedded info if it either can’t get any matches or you have local assets first.

Moreover if mine works maybe it’s worth a try?

My usual naming nomenclature isn’t what plex specifies but works very well. eg. …/12 Monkeys/Season 03/12 Monkeys - 3x10 - Witness.mkv

• I did the Plex dance
• I renamed the file
  • “D:\TV Shows\Looney Tunes\Season 30\Looney Tunes - 1930x02 - Congo Jazz.mkv”
• I created a new library and pointed it at TV Shows
• Unfortunately, still no dice.