Recently whenever I add a new TV show it initially marks it correctly. Then always names it “Family Guy Season”. This has only recently started being an issue. Any idea where / why it’s defaulting to “Family Guy Season” for Every new show recently? It’s defaulting to family guy while scanning for …

[image] dane22: Sadly no idea, but did notice Hawkeye [2021] as the folder name I also notice the Season folders have extra stuff in their names. I wonder … Season 1 [2021] (2160p) should just be Season 01.

Sadly no idea, but did notice Hawkeye [2021] as the folder name You have the year in square brackets, meaning it get’s ignored by Plex. Put it in real brackets, like: Hawkeye (2021) {tmdb-88329} Also note, that I added the tmdb id to it in curly brackets, so the new agents better can identify it

[image] di-Furia: why it’s defaulting to “Family Guy Season” for Every new show recently what are your library folders set to?

For TV they are set to the following: [image]

Have you checked for MP4 tags in the media?

Couldn’t see any [image] [image] [image]

Hopefully it’s all there Plex Media Server Logs_2021-12-16_23-39-07.zip (5.2 MB)

Can you review your server’s DNS configuration? Apparently it’s failing to resolve plex.tv – this usually happens with a bad DNS server; can you try using e.g. one of Google’s or CloudFlare’s DNS servers? Beyond that your logs simply seem to confirm what you’ve been reporting. It actually seems t…

So for clearing the cache I’ve just tried moving all of the tv.plex.agents.* out of the following directory but that wasn’t successful. /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in\ Support/Caches/ [image] Is that the correct way I should be clearing the cache? …

This seems to have solved it, at least after doing The Plex Dance ™ . Strange it wasn’t an issue until recently. I’ll look at getting my library to updated to conform with the plex naming standard. [image] Naming and Organizing Your TV Show Files | Plex Support The scanners and metadata …

Incorrectly naming TV shows

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

dane22 December 16, 2021, 10:10pm 7

Then do the Plex Dance on the show, and after that, upload a zip with the PMS logs

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Incorrectly naming TV shows

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