I use local assets for tv show metadata. I had all of my metadata working recently, but now half of the posters seems to be from TVDB as they are not the ones local stored on my server. They are all named poster.jpg or poster.png. Refreshing metadata, re-scanning, unmatching, moving the series to a temp folder, none of this seems to be working. I have no idea when this started occurring, but it’s super annoying and time consuming. My Agents for Shows->TheTVDB have Local Media Assets at the very top as always.
Uh, I just realized all the ones that are having issues are series that have a single season, which I removed the season folders for earlier this year. I am able to fix my issue above by creating a ‘Season 1’ folder and keeping the poster.ext files in the root series folder. This isn’t a huge deal to me, but as I mentioned previously my setup was 100% functioning in the spring.
The idea of season folders and season artwork for shows that only had one season seems pretty silly to me. Do you think something is broke or are season folders absolutely necessary at this point in time?
Season folders were never optional. You previously already got into trouble when you tried to use external subtitles, and you didn’t have a season folder.
Sometimes Plex is quite tolerant, but as soon as something doesn’t work as expected, you better do it by the book.
Fair enough. My goal in getting rid of the ‘Season 1’ folders for single season series was the eliminate the need for season metadata, which generally sucks in the case for them.
Not exactly sure what you mean by that.
There is a setting in the properties of the tv show library, named Seasons. If you set it to “hidden with single-season shows”, Plex will pretty much do this automatically.
