When I update my library Im getting alot of movies I have not downloaded. They dont play or anything but they are showing up. Also I can not get certain movies to upload. Anyone know how to fix this?
Log Files:
Drag and drop the zip file into a message window.
So many of those movies I have not downloaded. Such as 21 for example.
Out of Compliance:
In fact, your file names and folder structures are so far out of compliance I think you should be the Poster Child for Non-Compliance. The problem is that Plex can’t get enough info from your file names or folder structures (as if any actually exist at all) it doesn’t know what you have, guesses, poorly, and the result isn’t good. Movies go into a Movies Type Library. TV Shows go into a TV Shows Type Library. The two can’t live in the same Library Type.
Let’s start with the most grievous of violations:
E:\Downloads\Young Justice (Season 1) 720p (techrod108)\26 Auld Acquaintance (HD).m4v
Wrong.
You’re using a downloads directory as a Plex Library. WTF? WTF indeed.
You need to create some kind of buffer wherein something (Filebot - in my signature), or someone (that would be you) renames and structures your media for use in Plex. What you got going on right now won’t work. For instance:
A TV Show Library/ <— one that is NOT your downloads directory - A TV Show folder off the Root would be good
…Young Justice/ <— as it appears at TVDB: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=192061&lid=7
…Season 01/
…Young Justice - S01E26 - Auld Acquaintance.m4v
Note: The episode name is optional. I included it because I went to TVDB and saw it. Filebot will include it as well.
Add to this mess is your M4V/MP4 files could contain bogus embedded metadata in the Title Fields that are further complicating the issues. Unaltered, Plex annoyingly inspects M4V/MP4 files for embedded metadata and gives it tip-top priority - even over a good file name (don’t worry, you don’t have any of those).
Once you fix those file names and structures you should make a bee-line for here:
Drag Local Media Assets out of the top slot and drop it at the bottom of every Agent list, under every tab in TV and Movies to the bottom of the lists. Enabled, but demoted. This tells Plex to stop giving the highest priority to bogus embedded metadata and concentrate on your good file names and folder structures(once you make that happen).
While you’re there you should make sure that under each tab that particular Agent is in the top slot under it’s tab. TVDB up top in it’s tab, TMDB up top in it’s tab, and so on. With LMA always at the bottom.
Just ‘renaming’ these things will probably do nothing, so here’s The Plex Dance® that will do something:
- remove entire show or movie from library (out of Plex’s view)
- update library
- empty trash
- clean bundles
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <---- update libraries, empty trash, clean bundles - fix file names and structures (outside the library so they’re right BEFORE they go back in the library)
- replace item(s) into library
- update library
All Steps. In Order. No half-measures. This is important.
Filebot (again - in my signature) can monitor your downloads directory, notice something new, pick it up, match and rename it properly, structure it properly and run it into your libraries - automatically. This will take a little set up, but ultimately is easier on the furniture than dealing with a broken Plex.
Filebot can also just do the file naming by dragging items into it’s left window, click the ‘match’ button, match with the appropriate database then click the ‘rename’ button. It’s over in seconds and if successful (depending on the severity of initial foul naming) what you end up with a perfectly named file for use in Plex.
You have some work to do.
Let us know what’s happening over there.
