I have season 8 of this show and for some reason plex will scan it, pull the correct metadata, and then change the game up. It takes a few minutes and then says there are two seasons (there is only one) and calls them both Specials and renames the episodes.
I have tried changing my agent order several times, doing the plex dance, and starting from scratch but it cannot seem to manage the seasons of impractical jokers properly. I noticed when I added all of the seasons it did the same things with select episodes from each season.
All of my files follow plex’s naming guide exactly. Anyone else having this issue or know of some solution?
For TVDB the order is TVDB → The Movie Database → Local Media Assets
I also had it set initially to TVDB → Local Media Assets
They are named the way the plex guide on naming conventions says to name them. i.e. Show Name - S08E01 - optional information (for me its the episode title)
Yes I have tried The Plex Dance ™ 3 times now. Each time I changed the agents I have tried scanning library then refreshing metadata.
Every time I do The Plex Dance ™ and add the media back in, the information plex pulls is correct until I leave the TV library and come back to it, then everything is messed up. This is also the only TV series I have had any trouble with, all of my other series work great.
Here is the folder structure:
PlexMedia\TV\Impractical Jokers\Season 8\episodes
Can you get info on one of the episodes then View XML. then look at the GUID and parent GUID. for S08E01 should be like guid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://254243/8/1?lang=en" parentGuid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://254243/8?lang=en"
Or inspect them yourself. Take a look at the Plex Media Server.log file and seek for messages about database corrupt or malformed.
If you find these, you may have to repair your database.
Checked them all anyway only found the word corrupt in one of then, but it was apparently an attribute of some FFMPEG call. Nothing in relation to the db.
