I have a properly structured TV folder for Plex that is under a TV Shows library but I also have it added using a Home Video type of library. The idea is to let me have a flat list of just the file names without any of the metadata or fancy grouping that TV Shows allows. I’m using the Personal Video Scanner and Personal Media Agent. The problem I am having is that some files are strangely stacking together that shouldn’t belong together. For instance, I have a bunch of south park episodes and then I added some american dad episodes. I went to play a south park episode but it played american dad. I checked the info for the south park episode and it had 3 files associated with it. So I unlinked them and all 3 files then had the same name. I removed and readded the library and it was fine then. Not sure why that happened.
Doesn’t Folder View provide you with the flat, no-metadata, view you wish to have ?
Sorry I completely missed this reply. I didn’t know about that feature and this helps so much. Thank you!
It’s still happening even under Folder view. Random files are getting stacked together. You can see the file for Mickey Mouse Clubhouse has 13 files associated with it now. When you look at the info screens, it’s a mix of random stuff. Why is this happening?
I looked into my logs and I found the following information. This one file has all of these media parts being added to it over days. Why is this happening?
Oct 18, 2016 09:03:52.657 [2016] DEBUG - Analyzing media parts for item 85920 (Mickey.Mouse.Clubhouse.S01E02.A.Surprise.for.Minnie): 133302,133351,133362,133377,133385,133393,133395,133474,133617,133880,134698,134462,134847
At this point I think it is a bug. I am attaching my log zip and here is my version: 1.2.2.2857
You are going to see strange issues when all of your TV folders are hanging off of the root drive (Drive V: in your case) and not in a general TV folder.
It should be something similar to this:
\Grey's Anatomy
\Season 01
Grey's Anatomy - s01e01.avi
Grey's Anatomy - s01e02 - The First Cut is the Deepest.avi
Grey's Anatomy - s01e03.mp4
\Season 02
Grey's Anatomy - s02e01.avi
Grey's Anatomy - s02e02.mkv
Grey's Anatomy - s02e03.m4v
Yeah but s> @hthighway said:
You are going to see strange issues when all of your
TV foldersare hanging off of the root drive (Drive V: in your case) and not in a general TV folder.It should be something similar to this:
\Grey's Anatomy \Season 01 Grey's Anatomy - s01e01.avi Grey's Anatomy - s01e02 - The First Cut is the Deepest.avi Grey's Anatomy - s01e03.mp4 \Season 02 Grey's Anatomy - s02e01.avi Grey's Anatomy - s02e02.mkv Grey's Anatomy - s02e03.m4v
So the point of using the Video Files scanner and Personal Media Agent is to ignore the folder structure and to just see all of the files available. I’m not concerned with metadata or organization. See https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200265246-Personal-Media-Movies
So what I did was disable the Local Media Assets agent for Personal Movies so that metadata is not added to these files. Maybe that is trying to match parts with others and messing up.
@tmar89
In general plex really doesn’t like a drive’s root folder regardless of the library or intent.
@Orionshock said:
@tmar89
In general plex really doesn’t like a drive’s root folder regardless of the library or intent.
This may be a stupid question, but why?
@tmar89 said:
@Orionshock said:
In general plex really doesn’t like a drive’s root folder regardless of the library or intent.This may be a stupid question, but why?
Not a stupid question, just not one that anyone has any answer to (iirc)
I’d suspect it has something to do with how the python scrips are written to be cross platform and it working on windows.
So I put everything in the proper folder structure formats that Plex requires and have no files in the root folders, and it is still happening where videos are stacking. How can I elevate this to a real bug that needs attention?
Any update on this one? I have a folder of personal media (actually YouTube videos created by PlayOn) that gets new files periodically. The new files get “stacked” until I force a split, which doesn’t rename the split videos. Is this a bug?
Thanks!
@gilweb said:
Any update on this one? I have a folder of personal media (actually YouTube videos created by PlayOn) that gets new files periodically. The new files get “stacked” until I force a split, which doesn’t rename the split videos. Is this a bug?Thanks!
Can you post the info for this media? I’m curious what your file paths look like.
How’s this?
Files
Delete Files
W:\playon\YouTube\Minecraft _ WINNING FOR BEING TERRIBLE....mp4
Media
Video Resolution 720p
Duration 15:10
Bitrate 3306 kbps
Width 1280
Height 720
Aspect Ratio 1.78
Container MP4
Video Frame Rate NTSC
Web Optimized No
Audio Profile lc
Has 64bit Offsets 0
Video Profile main
Part
Duration 15:10
File Minecraft _ WINNING FOR BEING TERRIBLE....mp4
Size 358.89 MB
Audio Profile lc
Container MP4
Has 64bit Offsets 0
Has Thumbnail 1
Web Optimized No
Video Profile main
Codec H264
Bitrate 3200 kbps
Bit Depth 8
CABAC true
Chroma Subsampling 4:2:0
Duration 15:10
Frame Rate 29.97 fps
Frame Rate Mode cfr
Height 720
Level 3.1
Pixel Format yuv420p
Profile main
Ref Frames 4
Scan Type progressive
Stream Identifier 1
Width 1280
Codec AAC
Channels Stereo
Bitrate 192 kbps
Audio Channel Layout stereo
Bitrate Mode CBR
Duration 15:10
Profile lc
Sampling Rate 44100 Hz
Stream Identifier 2I was thinking more of the Media Info that shows the files. Look a few posts up at what I had posted.
How’s this?
Files
Delete Files
W:\playon\YouTube\Minecraft _ WINNING FOR BEING TERRIBLE....mp4
Media
Video Resolution 720p
Duration 15:10
Bitrate 3306 kbps
Width 1280
Height 720
Aspect Ratio 1.78
Container MP4
Video Frame Rate NTSC
Web Optimized No
Audio Profile lc
Has 64bit Offsets 0
Video Profile main
Part
Duration 15:10
File Minecraft _ WINNING FOR BEING TERRIBLE....mp4
Size 358.89 MB
Audio Profile lc
Container MP4
Has 64bit Offsets 0
Has Thumbnail 1
Web Optimized No
Video Profile main
Codec H264
Bitrate 3200 kbps
Bit Depth 8
CABAC true
Chroma Subsampling 4:2:0
Duration 15:10
Frame Rate 29.97 fps
Frame Rate Mode cfr
Height 720
Level 3.1
Pixel Format yuv420p
Profile main
Ref Frames 4
Scan Type progressive
Stream Identifier 1
Width 1280
Codec AAC
Channels Stereo
Bitrate 192 kbps
Audio Channel Layout stereo
Bitrate Mode CBR
Duration 15:10
Profile lc
Sampling Rate 44100 Hz
Stream Identifier 2Better? 
Yes this. I don’t get why these files would stack. I’ve looked into the logs and it doesn’t show any reason why. They end up sharing the same media ID. I wish someone from Plex could give this some more attention.
Better?
