I’m assuming that this is a false positive update notification? As in, this update does NOT include the TV Agent beta…?
I only have been updating via the releases posted on this thread, as I have a MASSIVE library that I don’t wanna have re-scanned again and again from scratch lol.
Correct, you have to stay on the builds provided in this thread to use the TV scanner preview. I’ll bump a new build at some point so that the preview version is higher than the current public release.
For sure, for sure!
I am working with ~45TB of data, and I can def report that the Plex TV Agent beta is sooooo much faster…great work!
I have what I think is an easy question, is there any documentation yet that shows how we’re to add the TVDB Id’s to folder and/or filenames?
In the examples I see above it seems to directly conflict with the new Movie scanner by using [square brackets] to enclose the ID where as in the Movie scanner that is used to tell the scanner to ignore the enclosed content. Why wouldn’t the TV scanner use the {curly brackets} to enclose the DB ID like the Movie scanner and use the [square brackets] for ignore?
Thanks!
From what I remember from the new movie agent preview, both square and curly brackets should work (I suppose as long as you don’t mix opening/closing square/curly brackets)
Tom, the documentation for naming movies indicates curly brackets although it doesn’t mention square brackets at all.
Color me confused.
We support both but I believe the documentation calls out only one to avoid confusion,
Interesting. The ‘lore’ in the Metadata forum seems to believe that the square brackets are to ignore the enclosed contents. Wouldn’t this make the scanners more efficient to have one set for dbID and one for ignore?
I’ll need to confirm but I believe we first parse the file name for the ID in brackets or braces, and if we don’t find one we move onto the logic of ignore inside square brackets and go onto parsing the file name for title/year etc.
@adriana would you mind checking if this is how the provider works?
Aside from the obvious “same title different year” mismatches, I’ve got a few that brought questions.
I’ve got Copper (2012) identified as Rookie Blue, and The Shield (2002) merged to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, so do alternative titles carry the same weight as the main one? should I add year to this kind of mismatches too?
How about metadata duplicates on the agent’s side? I’ve found this a lot on japanese shows, for example:
Overall, I’ve got way better results using this instead of the other agents. and thank you in advance for answering my questions.
Anything inside Square brackets are ignored with the current scanners (I have lots them) and, I agree, this is SOP for media file naming.
It would be a major pain for Plex to change their usage of that now.
How are these files and folder named?
These too, how are the first episode from each season named (including the parent folder names)?
We match by season.
Check that all the files across the seasons are named consistently, e.g. for best results you should have something like:
/media/tv/Hero (2001)/Season 01/Hero (2001) - S01E01 - Episode Title.mkv
/media/tv/Hero (2001)/Season 02/Hero (2001) - S02E01 - Another Episode Title.mkv
All my files were named consistently, with two main notes:
So my files look like this:
Copper/Season01/Copper.S01E01.mkv
The Shield/Season01/The.Shield.S01E01.mkv
Kekkon Dekinai Otoko/Season01/Kekkon.Dekinai.Otoko.S01E01.mkv
Kekkon Dekinai Otoko/Season02/Kekkon.Dekinai.Otoko.S02E01.mkv
So, if I understand correctly, In Hero’s case the conflict only happened on season 1. I got lucky on season 2 because the other show doesn’t have it?
And for better result I need to change my naming to use year on every title instead of only when demanded by tvdb.
My Trakt scrobbling doesn’t work with this new Plex TV Series library. Any idea how to fix this?
3.Party python based plugin’s doesn’t gets triggered with the new agents.
No workaround
I got it working with the new Trakt.tv plugin. 
Nasty, since it access the database directly
I would, if using Trakt, use the official one, that use webhooks
https://blog.trakt.tv/plex-scrobbler-52db9b016ead
I don’t have Trakt VIP
It really depends on the field. We don’t go through the entries manually, we try to be smart and pick the best piece of information from the best source. Sometimes we decide that we always prefer a specific source for a specific field but other times the scoring and selection process is more complex. In the case of translations if there is one in both TMDB and TVDB we currently prefer the translations from TMDB but in the future we might use a more complex scoring algorithm. Under very special circumstances we might choose to manually override the selected value.
Ok, so in other words there’s no real way for us users to know where to edit without searching the “original” providers first, and even then it’s a pure guess to what will be used? Will PTVS agent rescan the sources every time a change is made and pull new data according to the algorithm then?
I guess it’ll work perfect for popular and big shows like Game of Thrones but I’m not convinced in regards of smaller national series. I hope you fix the language problems, with for example Norwegian and Portuguese, towards TVDB so we can fall back on those if the PTVS agent gets the wrong data.
Also, will there be any way of reporting wrong translations/bad translations/bad artwork?
