I’m new here, so I apologize if this has been asked before. I haven’t had too much trouble getting everything added, except for one thing. I have the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. So they are just randomly put on different discs. When adding this to the server, it combines most of these into one file, even though the names are different. I tried taking them out of these folders to see if it would match, and it still did the same thing. I don’t want to have to rename every single episode, as its about 400 at least. Is there a way to get this done that I’m overlooking? I have other sets that aren’t necessarily “in order” and have had no problem with these, it just seems to be this particular set.
Did you check here? support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/sections/200059498-Naming-and-Organizing-TV-Shows
I think that was the first thing I looked at, which helped with all my tv shows and movies, except this one collection. I’m guessing I could go into each episode and name it by year (since these are seasons, just so many year) and then it might work with the S01E01 format, using each year as a season, it would just take a long time to rename them all, but each has the episode name, and all are listed in the TVDB. I just didn’t know if there was another way to do it with cartoon series like this.
Unfortunately…:
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=313081&lid=7
** 403: Series Not Permitted **
That’ll pretty much drop that charging Rhino dead in it’s tracks.
About The ONLY other option is to comply with TVDB - and FileBot can make that relatively painless (link in my signature):
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=72514&lid=7 - Looney Tunes
A TV Show Library/
…Looney Tunes/
…Season 1940/ <— for instance
…Looney Tunes - S1940E01 - Porky’s Last Stand.xxx
There is another option:
Put Looney Tunes Golden Collection into an ‘Other Videos’ Library. Plex won’t try to match them and you can name and structure them as you please. They won’t draw any posters or metadata, but that’s the nature of the beast.
One last option is fiddle around with the naming and try to match with TMDB:
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/69041-looney-tunes-collection-volume-1
This option may be quite painful as TMDB is the World’s Worst TV Show Database, but in this case it may actually save your bacon.
Something else you could do is conform to the season numbers (eg, 1941, 1942, etc…) and start the episodes from 100.
Example;
Looney Tunes - S1940E100 - Porky's Last Stand.xxx
Looney Tunes - S1940E101 - The Early Worm Gets the Bird.xxx
Looney Tunes - S1940E102 - Africa Squeaks.xxx
Looney Tunes - S1940E103 - Mighty Hunters.xxx
That way Plex will match the series up and download the metadata for the show. The episodes of course won’t be matched (missing names & synopsis for each episode) but you win some, you lose some…
Basically, it will look something like this.
@JuiceWSA said:
Unfortunately…:
Welcome - TheTVDB.com
** 403: Series Not Permitted **That’ll pretty much drop that charging Rhino dead in it’s tracks.
Never seen that before from TVDB - intriguing!
About The ONLY other option is to comply with TVDB - and FileBot can make that relatively painless (link in my signature):
Looney Tunes - TheTVDB.com - Looney TunesA TV Show Library/
…Looney Tunes/
…Season 1940/ <— for instance
…Looney Tunes - S1940E01 - Porky’s Last Stand.xxx
I reckon you’re on the money.
Purely as an exercise I tested that out, with a file structure below it scrapped and loaded meta-data first go. And yes you read right, I’ve the year 1930 in the series folder name and the first season is Season 1929. Blame TVDB for that, but it scrapes fine and the meta-data is perfect (I just randomly selected file names and dropped them in over a copy of a small avi file to satisfy PMS).
.....Animated TV\ (This is the library)
..........Looney Tunes (1930)\
...............Season 1929\
....................Looney Tunes (1930) S1929E01 Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid.avi
...............Season 1930\
....................Looney Tunes (1930) S1930E02 Congo Jazz.avi
eg the library path is: \Animated TV\Looney Tunes (1930)\Season 1930\Looney Tunes (1930) S1930E02 Congo Jazz.avi
@jnedbalek I’d definitely go with the suggestion @JuiceWSA gave if I was in your shoes. I’m not an expert with filebot, but by all reports it’ll whip through the job of renaming the files for you to match the above pattern.
Thank you everyone so much! After some searching, I realized this had been asked before (I just wasn’t searching the right way) so I do thank you for answering even though its been answered before. I’m going to try a few different things and see what happens. I also have some Disney cartoons that I’m guessing will end up being the same way.
TVDB lists Disney Toons as: Disney Animated Shorts - which is what my undies do after a camping trip.
@JuiceWSA said:
TVDB lists Disney Toons as: Disney Animated Shorts - which is what my undies do after a camping trip.
This made me laugh 
and after all the frustration of getting it named, I needed it
So I found this thread because I too just purchased the Looney tunes collection. The disks are broken up into best of ______. So a disk for Bugs Bunny, one for Road Runner, one for Daffy, etc…
I have no problem renaming the ripped file to a season and show number to follow standard convention, however I would like to see a way to edit the Season “Title” under the edit section for the Season the same way you would a show.
In other words if I group all the Best of Bugs Bunny in a season (ex: S01E01 - Bugs first carrot) and all the Daffy Duck in a Season (Ex: S02E01 - Just Daffy), I would like to be able to change the Title for Season 1 to Bugs Bunny and Season 2 to Daffy Duck. Then your choice would be Looney Tunes for the Show and star for the season.
Surely the geniuses at Plex can add an edit option to the Season Title?
You can name them anything you want - in an Other Videos Library.
No matching, no artwork, no descriptions, no problem.
If you want them to match with TVDB you have to name and structure them the way TVDB wants them.
For instance - Looney Tunes Season 1942:
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=72514&seasonid=464004&lid=7
A TV Show Library/
…Looney Tunes/
…Season 1942/
…Looney Tunes - S1942E09 - The Wabbit Who Came To Supper.xxx <----episode name optional
Feel free to head over to the official Plex Pass Forum and make an Official Feature Request.
In the meantime, however, you may want to just starting naming and structuring properly 'cause the above really is hard to beat.
Did you ever get this to work? I also just got the Looney Tunes Golden Collection and wanted to rip it to Plex and found the same Series Not Permitted error on TheTVDB.
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=313081&lid=7
‘The Golden Collection’ episodes are already listed here:
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=72514&lid=7
Find them, name them and structure them accordingly:
A TV Show Library/
…Looney Tunes/
…Season 1941/
… Looney Tunes - S1941E01 - Elmer’s Pet Rabbit.xxx <— valid file name - episode name optional
… Looney Tunes - S1941E02.xxx <---- valid file name
Oh sheesh. So I have to take every file, find which season it was originally from and rename it with the Season based on the year and then the episode info? Sheesh. That’s going to take a while.
Guess I’ve screwed myself. I started moving my Looney Tunes collection using the release date rather than by the “collection”. When I originally did it as a box-set, it took me weeks to get everything right. But I decided to try sorting them by year as season just to see if it worked. It did, but I didn’t finish moving and updating cause I was busy fixing all my movies. Never got back to Looney Tunes stuff; now it won’t work? That’s messed up.
@kelemvor33 said:
Oh sheesh. So I have to take every file, find which season it was originally from and rename it with the Season based on the year and then the episode info? Sheesh. That’s going to take a while.
Here is the full ist:
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=seasonall&id=72514&lid=7
If your episode files have the title of the episode already in their file name, you might have a good chance that Filebot can make this undertaking very quick.
@OttoKerner said:
@kelemvor33 said:
Oh sheesh. So I have to take every file, find which season it was originally from and rename it with the Season based on the year and then the episode info? Sheesh. That’s going to take a while.Here is the full ist:
Looney Tunes - Aired Order - All Seasons - TheTVDB.comIf your episode files have the title of the episode already in their file name, you might have a good chance that Filebot can make this undertaking very quick.
I’ve never been able to figure out how to get filebot to prefer the name in a file. If all my file names are correct but the number is wrong; it matches to the number and of course then everything is wrong. I’m pretty sure that the problem is me; but I’ve gotten into the habit of making sure that the season/episode numbers are correct and letting filebot do the naming.
@flamebird said:
I’ve never been able to figure out how to get filebot to prefer the name in a file.
Me too
@OttoKerner said:
@kelemvor33 said:
Oh sheesh. So I have to take every file, find which season it was originally from and rename it with the Season based on the year and then the episode info? Sheesh. That’s going to take a while.Here is the full ist:
Looney Tunes - Aired Order - All Seasons - TheTVDB.comIf your episode files have the title of the episode already in their file name, you might have a good chance that Filebot can make this undertaking very quick.
Ah, I forgot about Filebot. I know I used that once for something. I’ll have to go try it again.
OK, so I’m close with Filebot. I have it matching up most of the episodes but a couple are not. Is there some way to manually tell FB that a certain file is really a certain season/episode?
E.g. 06 - Pizzicato ■■■■■ Cat is really S1955E01
