I believe Thetvdb.com is wrong for this series

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I have My Little Pony Pony Life and Season 1 and Season 2 have about 13 and 14 episodes. They are two parters however. IMDB has them listed correctly but thetvdb.com has them all listed as separate episodes so the names are all wrong. i have them named as s02e01 etc…any suggestions? Thanks

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I should give an example
s02e01 should be Cute Impact/The Crystal Capturing Contraption
whats happening is s02e01 is named Cute Impact
and s02e02 is named The Crystal Capturing Contraption

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That is an issue with TheTVDB and not Plex.
You can try and take it up with the mods at TheTVDB but they seem to be pretty adamant about separating multi segment episodes into 2 distinct episodes.
The same can be seen for a lot of 90s Nicktoons (Hey Arnold, Catdog, Rugrats) and pretty much anything that airs 2 ~11-15 minute segments as one episode on TV (the new Marvel’s Spidey and His Amazing Friends is a recent example). Edit to add it’s not just 2 segment episode shows, but Animaniacs is an example as is the new Looney Tunes Cartoons from HBOMax.

Your options are:

  1. Name them so they conform to TheTVDB.com, so in your case it would be s02e01-e02 and that will show “both” “episodes” in your Plex with the correct name
  2. Name them so that you skip the “episode” that the 2nd segment corresponds too, s02e01, s02e03, etc.
  3. Name them in the proper sequence (s02e01, s02e02, s02e03, etc.) and leave them like that (with incorrect metadata)
  4. Doing number 3 but afterwards manually editing the metadata so that it has the proper information (this is what I’ve done for certain series).

-Shark2k

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Yeah, it’s quite a problem for me, as a lot of shows I am liking nowadays are all short 10-15 minute long episodes. The channel that originally airs these always combines 2 into one 30-minute episode. Most of the time when re-aired, they air both episodes together. But often, especially when it’s re-released in a DVD set, these episodes can get shuffled around. Online sources for shows tend to prefer DVD/BR copies, since it is likely to be best quality and has no station watermarks. An episode that might have been bundled with Ep1 (ep2) when aired, might actually be the second half of Ep7 instead. Due to the ability to mix and match individual sections of a single show, TheTVDB chose to just number each show segment, no matter if it is ALWAYS bundled with the other one.

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I’ll try option 1i think that sounds the best for me. I tried to look for an option on tvdb to report it but couldn’t find it. Also didn’t look too hard. Will try again. Thanks

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You would need to go to the forums for TVDB and make a post there somewhere.

Good luck with that, as they can be very stubborn over there from what I’ve seen/heard.

-Shark2k

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Split the files with a program like MKVToolNix. That’s what I would do. You’ll probably use as much time doing this vs anything else, maybe even less.

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I recommend avidemux, has a nice feature for black frame searching. Makes moving to the next commercial or segment a LOT easier.

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well naming them as s01e01-e02 didnt work…i think youre right I might spend less time editing the video than trying to do anything else…such an annoyance but anything for our kids i guess…My daughter wont even care in a month about the show anyways lol

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If the metadata didn’t show up properly in Plex after doing that, you’ll probably have to do the Plex Dance

(move out, scan, empty trash, clean bundles, move back, wait for it to populate the metadata )

After doing that, see if it works, which is should as that is one of the recommended naming methods from Plex and also I have shows setup like that.

-Shark2k

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Ok I’ll look in to this. Currently I have it named as every other episode as also suggested told Plex
To refresh metadata but I had to leave so will check later. Thanks again

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ok so ive done the plex dance and naming as s01e01-02 did not work for me it still named episode two the second part of episode 1. However naming every other episode worked s01e01, s01e03, etc…I am not happy with this since it skips the name of the second part of the episode. I tried to use aviddemux to split the video but I could only find out how to cut the video so it would just do one part then id have to do all the steps again to do the second part im sure it can do a true split to separate the videos i just have to find out how. I will post in tvdb forum when i get a chance and tell them its wrong even though they may be stubborn…thanks for everyones help!

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See [HowTo]: splitting multi-episode files with MKVtoolnix GUI

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@carlos28355_msn.com When using aviddemux use the A/B buttons to set the start/end of the episode (using the search for next black frame allows you to quickly jump ahead) when you have the episode sectioned, click save as, enter the new file name, save, then you can press the go to last frame arrow, and press A again. That creates a segment of the remaining video, and repeat the save process. should only take you a minute or two per video.

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