More than 100 seasons in a show

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I have a few shows that cannot show up in Plex as they have over 100 seasons. For example, the file
“House Hunters - s102e01 - Phoenix Newlyweds Battle Over Size.mp4” is not recognized, but if I rename the file
“House Hunters - s02e01 - Phoenix Newlyweds Battle Over Size.mp4” my PMS will recognize the file.

I believe this is because the name is now sXXeYY instead of sXXXeYY. Is there anyway to get PMS to recognize the files properly?

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Welp - that ain’t the reason…:

With This:

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You get this:

Now, don’t be alarmed by the lovely Ingrid Bergman. Her Movie Extra File is standing in for those House Hunter episodes I don’t have and since there are no episode thumbs at TVDB - I didn’t get any, so enjoy the lovely Ingrid Bergman.

You’re using MP4 files - very likely infected with bogus metadata.

FileBot can handle the file naming and structuring for you, but what FileBot can’t do is remove possible embedded metadata in the Title Field of MP4/M4V files. Plex will read this info and prefer it over a perfect file name/structure (you may not have any of those yet), but you can combat that situation by moving Local Media Assets to the bottom of every agent list you can find. All tabs in TV Show and Movies here:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200241558-Agents
Just drag LMA to the bottom of the list and drop it. If you do have embedded metadata this will cure the issue, if you don’t it won’t matter. LMA will do what it has to from the bottom.

Renaming/restructuring is best performed OUTSIDE the library and you’ll need to write a new bundle for the show so The Plex Dance® was invented:

The Plex Dance®:

  1. remove show/movie from library
  2. update library
  3. empty trash
  4. clean bundles
    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles
  5. bring names and structures into compliance/ or the ultimate bundle reboot operation
  6. replace corrected show/movie into library
  7. update library

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.

And…
Welcome to the forum.

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Thank you for the help.

Moving the LMA to the bottom fixed my issue. I had already tried the other steps, so I am not sure if they were needed or not.

I appreciate the help.

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You are welcome.

Memorize The Plex Dance® - you will need it often.