adrian.macleod’s solution is the best answer to the Looney Tunes problem for people who haven’t renamed everything for TVDB.
- I’d previously tried adding as a TV show, but this requires extensive renaming for TVDB compliance. There are 375 files here so this was too labor intensive for me. If you don’t rename, almost everything will be wrong.
- I then tried using as Home Videos, but then you don’t get the nice, neat naming and posters.
- A separate movies library is clearly the best solution (and as an aside, OF COURSE they should be movies…these won Academy Awards…can’t believe we’ve all been trying to stick these under TV for years). You still will need to split apart a dozen or so files, and fix matches for about 30-50 files, but you can do this in an hour or two while multi-tasking. When cleaning up the mismatches, I suggest switching Plex to list view and then sorting by year to find a lot of the mismatches; then I suggest switching back to grid view and looking for things that don’t have Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies posters. A lot of the episode names are puns on films of the era, and a lot of the episode names are very similar to one another, so the Plex engine mismatches frequently – but typically the second suggestion under “fix match” is the right one.
So thank you adrian. It was so great to be able to flip on Plex last night and quickly find the episode I wanted to watch.
