Thanks for your reply, I tried to be as thorough as possible in my initial post to avoid having to go through this piece by piece, and you’ve probably got your form reply setup for everyone else that sucks at naming/managing their media, but we’ll go through it.
@JuiceWSA said:
Every one of your files is an mp4 file.
I’m confused as to the relevance of this?
Also your files ain’t named right.
(WEBDL-720p) should be [WEBDL-720p] or omitted all together. Plex will ignore everything in a [Bracket]. (YEAR) Fields are placed after the show name. Looks like Plex is already confused - no need to carry it all the way to the booby-hatch.
It’s never been an issue before for any other movie or series, but despite that, It didn’t seem to make a difference in the second example, where that (WEBDL-720p) was absent in the first place. Also according to the naming guide everything after the dash following sXXeXX is considered ‘optional_info’ (i.e. episode title) by Plex and is ignored, so the type of braces/brackets surrounding the quality shouldn’t make a difference anyways.
In the case of Sheriff Callie season 1, this second dash was absent to begin with and Plex properly split the episodes in the library; I tried omitting that second dash for the second season as well to match, but it didn’t make a difference, Plex is still only detecting the first segment in the case of Season 2.
You may as well make up your mind to name things the way TVDB does - 'cause this is a fight you simply can’t win. If it were me - I’d place the first episode of this two-part nightmare in the making and skip the next one - making sure the first one is the one TVDB expects to see. If there’s any editing to do to the description - do it, if it makes you feel better, or if it matters to your 4 year old.
Are you familiar with Sonarr? It pulls all it’s information from the TVDB, so that part is done.
Plex is going to mishandle every single one of those two-parters - playing the first one and the second one then insisting you need to watch the second one, when you just watched it. Oh, yea, it’ll be real sweet. Your 4 year old might not even notice - or you may be in for much more fun that you ever dreamed.
Yea… drop the E01-E02 nonsense and just go with:
blabla - S01E01 - blabla
blabla - S01E03 - blabla
and call it a day.
So is it supported or isn’t it? https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220687-naming-series-season-based-tv-shows/ under the ‘Multi-Episode Files’ heading states explicitly that it will support multiple entries for properly named files, and indeed many episodes are working in that manner; the issue lies with the fact that some files show multiple episodes while others don’t, despite having the same naming convention. i.e. the inconsistent detection.
Regarding your mp4 files… they probably have embedded and very bogus Title Fields the friendly folks at Plex are reading and reacting badly to. Filebot could handle the naming and structuring of said files, but what FileBot can’t do is remove embedded metadata in the Title Field of MP4/M4V files. Plex will read this info and prefer it over a perfect file name/structure, but you can combat that situation by moving Local Media Assets to the bottom of every agent list you can find. All tabs in TV Shows and Movies here:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200241558-Agents
Just drag LMA to the bottom of the list and drop it. If you do have embedded metadata this will cure the issue, if you don’t it won’t matter. LMA will do what it has to from the bottom.
LMA has never been enabled and is at the bottom for every library in question (though if it’s deselected it’s placement in the list doesn’t matter). I’ve also reviewed the metadata for each file and there are no embedded titles or any other information of that nature.
After you do any or all of this - if you ever want Plex to know you’ve done something or want to write a new bundle the next thing you’d better do is The Plex Dance® and you’d better do it with the entire show - not just a few episodes here and there…
This was done, multiple times, as mentioned at the bottom of my initial post.
Log Files:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200250417-plex-media-server-log-files/
Already attached at the bottom of the first post.
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