I may have found a novel TV show naming problem. I have a DVD box set of The X-Files called Mythology. It consists of episodes collected from the entire series which advance the main story arc. They are sorted into four volumes, each with a different theme, name, and cover art, which I'd like to see associated with its episodes. The problem is that the episodes in each Mythology volume cut across the actual seasons as aired and released (e.g. episode 3 of volume 1 is actually episode 10 of season 1; episode 15 of volume 1 is actually episode 2 of season 3).
How on earth can I get these four volumes organized and presented as purchased? Plex won't sort correctly if I name episodes by actual season occurrence, and Plex won't scrape the correct metadata if I name episodes sequentially.
(also: I'm moving this thread to the agents forum)
Cool, thanks. So how does this work with the web based Plex Media Server? (The screenshots look like it's a plugin for a standalone Plex app where right-clicking brings up a contextual menu that's not Safari's.) I dropped the plugin into ~/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins, but the icon & suffix don't match what's in there. No different behavior when I rescan TV shows. No new agents under settings.
Does this plugin work with the current web-based PMS? Does it live in a different directory? Is there a specific file naming format for it to work?
OK, I did some poking and I believe I properly installed the DVDorderagent plugin (found the Plex Plug-in Installer). The agent now shows up under settings. Still no idea how to make it work, tho. I'm guessing I have to name the files properly, but I'd love some direction. Thanks again.
Yep, the steps are slightly different now in the web client, but it's the same idea. Find the show you want to update, then find "Fix Incorrect Match" in the action bar on the side:
OK, did all that, but it's still matching & sorting by season & sequential episode (yielding wrong cover art (season collections), and wrong episode metadata (seasonal sequential episodes rather than select episodes by title)). I don't know if it's because the scraper doesn't know about the X-Files Mythology collection (which it doesn't appear to) or if I haven't named the files the way it wants (currently: The X-Files Mythology / Volume x / yy Title.m4v , etc.).
Thanks, mmccurdy, for your time & thoughts. Any other ideas? Need more info from me?
This is almost exactly what I want to do, but I think my issue is harder because I'm not trying to scrape additional sequential episodes, but selected episodes from within a series (worse, that cross season lines in each of four volumes).
I'll play with file naming, but I'm starting to think it won't work for me because it seems that The X-Files: Mythology volumes aren't known by TheTVDB or TheTVDBdvdorder agents.
If they're not known at all by TheTVDB, then it won't work. However, TheTVDB is an open database, so the right solution is to go over there and add them (and their associated air/dvd orderings) and Plex will start picking it up.
thetvdb staff generally frown on things like this and often nuke it. After airing compilation disks like this are what they would consider not part of TV.
however, if we had a Wikipedia agent, it would work better for specialty items like this.
Oh, I didn't catch the fact that it was a compilation disc -- I guess this is yet *another* order apart from DVD and air order? I think you're right that would be frowned upon.
I'm not seeing that Wikipedia can be counted on to structure and provide this type of metadata in a reliable way. The default agent ordering for movies pulls some info from there, but it's problematic, and TV series require even more structure to make sense. Freebase is no better in this case: https://www.freebase.com/m/02q1d7q
Not really sure what the right answer is here... Personal Series Scanner with some handmade or hand-edited metadata probably.
