I was recently testing my work in adding old Looney Tunes shorts to my collection and Plex re-configured all my metadata to point to the new “The looney Tunes Show (2011)” instead of the classic Looney Tunes data.
No problem, I thought, I can fix this with “Fix Match…”. I found the right title series and pointed to it. This sort-of fixed it (I have the right images) but none of the names are correct. Bizarrely, the names appear to be aligned with the title of the file when it is output from MakeMKV… even though none of that information is in my filename.
So, for example: For Little Red Riding Rabbit, I have this file:
Kids TV/Looney Tunes/1944/Looney Tunes - S1944E01 - Little Red Riding Rabbit.mv4
But inside the Looney Tunes Show, in the 1944 season, the title shows:
LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION 2 DISC 1
This is, indeed, the disc that this short is found on, but none of that information is in my files. I’ve tried connecting the “Fix Match…” data directly to the TvDb Series ID (72514) but it says there is no match found. I’m at my wits end about aligning my data, which was working perfectly just a short time ago.
Is there some kind of special refresh I need to do on this? Do I need to unload the library and re-load it?
I’ve unchecked “prefer local meta data” for that library and refreshed all the metadata for the library and it hasn’t fixed the file names (and also all my Disney shorts titles are now broken)
UPDATE: I edited the library settings
[Click Edit button on library]
Advanced → Use original title → Yes
Advanced → Episode ordering-> The TVDB (Aired)
That refreshed things and restored the proper titles for the episodes
This will likely lead to undesired behaviour. Original titles will use foreign language titles if that matches the original show name (based off which language it originally was created in).
If there is a better solution, I’m all ears. Since this is a show-by-show setting I think I’ll be ok. All the Looney Tunes were created in English, I’m only using this setting for the Looney Tunes.
