When a show, or an episode for a show is not found in TVDB, it still appears in the Plex library. But even though I’m following the name convention of: /TV Shows/ShowName/Season 02/ShowName – s02e17 – Optional_Info.ext or /TV Shows/ShowName/Season 02/ShowName – 2011-11-15 – Optional_Info.ext Th…

That’s very uncommon. Most shows we get our hands on have already been added to thetvdb aside from your garden variety special interest shows or sports. Plex will not scrape the “Optional_Info” if the library type is TVSHOWS. It would if type was OTHER VIDEOS. However, you can embed the info into t…

Thanks for the reply. I ended up adding the missing seasons - there wasn’t as many missing as I first thought. Personally, I find it a little frustrating that it takes mp4 metadata, but not info from the filenames (I would allow the user to choose which to use), but it’s pretty much all working now…

Metainfo for shows/episodes not found in TVDB

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Metainfo for shows/episodes not found in TVDB

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