While the show was correctly matched and its metadata fetched with the older scanner/agent, the new agent has massive problems. The show is correctly matched and cover arts as well as background for the show are fetched. But the cover arts for the seasons aren’t fetched and no title or synopsis for…

This is another good example of a metadata mess. There are two entries per show on both TMDB and TVDB. One is called Mayday, the other Air Disasters. See here: https://thetvdb.com/series/mayday https://thetvdb.com/series/air-disasters-2011 [image] Mayday Revealing the dark truth that a…

I agree that it’s a unnecessary mess and Plex should do much better, especially because they’re stealing the content from other databases (I highly doubt they call the API and just merge the data “on-the-fly”). Beside that, I think it’s really stupid to use data of TV Shows from a database made for …

What do you want me to do? Put the TVDB ID in the folder name?

Fun Fact: I switched to the older TheTVDB agent (which changed the scanner to the older “Plex Series Scanner” too) and now I do get artwork for each season as well as titles and synopsis for all episodes. And everything is in my library language German. It works as intended. After a few hours I swi…

@an3k FYI… its been mentioned many times on this forum that once you upgrade to the new modern scanner/agent its a one way move. You cannot switch back like you are doing. It will cause unknown complications and break things as the code is not compatible between the legacy and modern agents. Just…

It’s getting better and better. Compare Season 10 on the three databases: TheTVDB lists six episodes: S10E01 - Cockpit Failure (Crossair Flight 3597) S10E02 - Who’s In Control? S10E03 - The Heathrow Enigma (British Airways Flight 38) S10E04 - Pilot Betrayed S10E05 - Dead Tired (Colgan Air Flight …

I wiped Plex off of my server and installed it from scratch, added the directory which contains tv shows and let it do its job. I get the exact same problems. incorrect ordering of the episodes No artwork for individual seasons English titles and synopsis for episodes (up to season 17) No titles o…

I again wiped Plex off of my server and installed it from scratch, this time I used the older TheTVDB agent. Surprise Surprise, everything works as intended. correct order of the episodes Artwork for individual seasons German titles and synopsis for episodes No missing metadata for some seasons

Take it from a fellow German, there’s no need to get so angry over this. One of the reasons the new agent/scanner combo exists is to reduce the number of API hits on both TVDB and TMDB significantly. So, from that perspective, it makes sense for Plex to host its own aggregated database. On the other…

Missing Metadata of TV Show "Air Disasters"

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FordGuy61 January 8, 2022, 11:18pm 3

See this thread: New Plex TV Series agent detecting wrong series for "Mayday"

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Missing Metadata of TV Show "Air Disasters"

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