Issues scraping TV shows with correct naming and valid IDs” o “Half of TV episodes not matching desp

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.41.8.9834
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Hi,

I’m currently in the process of renaming my entire library following Plex’s official naming conventions. For movies, everything works flawlessly — metadata is correctly identified and matched.

However, I’m experiencing significant issues with TV shows. Roughly 50% of the episodes are not scraping properly, even though the file and folder names follow the documented format.

Here are a few examples of paths that are failing during scans:

/The Walking Dead Dead City (2023) {tmdb-194583} {tvdb-417549}/Season 2/The Walking Dead Dead City - S02E07 - Novi Dan, Novi Poćetak [h264-1080p] [spa-EAC3-2ch, eng-EAC3-2ch] [Web-DL] {tmdb-6104181} {tvdb-10803215}.mkv

/The Umbrella Academy (2019) {tmdb-75006} {tvdb-353764}/Season 04/The Umbrella Academy - S04E02 - Jean y Gene [h264-1080p] [spa-EAC3-6ch, eng-EAC3-6ch] [Web-DL] {tmdb-5066228} {tvdb-10534754}.mkv

Both follow the correct naming structure according to the official Plex documentation, and the TMDb/TVDb IDs are valid and correctly mapped to both the series and episodes.

My questions:

  • Could including both TMDb and TVDb IDs in the same folder and filename be counterproductive or cause issues with the metadata agents?
  • I don’t think it should be a problem, but I’m starting to wonder if it might be interfering with detection.

Has anyone else experienced something similar when using the TV agent?

Any feedback or tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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  • Scanner = Plex TV Series, Agent = Plex Series
  • TMDB/TVDB ID usually not required.
  • Use either TMDB or TVDB ID, not both.
  • Use the ID only on the folder name, not the file name.
  • Put all the other stuff in one square bracket.
  • Plex Dance the show after renaming.

This matches immediately on my server:

/tv shows
../The Walking Dead Dead City (2023)
..../Season 02
....../The Walking Dead Dead City s02e07 Novi Dan, Novi Poćetak [other stuff].mkv

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Perfect, I left only TMDB and removed it from the episodes, and everything scraped perfectly:

/The Walking Dead Dead City (2023) {tmdb-194583}/Season 2/The Walking Dead Dead City - S02E07 - Novi Dan, Novi Poćetak [h264-1080p] [spa-EAC3-2ch, eng-EAC3-2ch] [Web-DL].mkv

The downside is that if I switch to TVDB, it won’t recognize the ID anymore—only the name— which is risky for shows that share the same title in the same year.

Same goes for movies: I currently include both TMDB and IMDB IDs, but I haven’t had any issues with movies, which is odd.

Would you recommend putting everything inside a single set of brackets “[ … ]” instead of using multiple “[ … ] [ … ]”?

And the ID, before or after the brackets?

Thanks a lot!

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There is no switching to TVDB with the new agent.
But you can switch the Episode Ordering per show. This is useful for shows where TVDB and TMDB have different opinions about which season and episode numbers are to be used for the files.
Keep in mind that one particular ordering might have metadata, while the other hasn’t. Important when one of them is e.g. using year numbers for seasons, while the other just uses ordinal numbers.

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