One Piece misses most episode titles because of the year when they were aired / released

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I think I use a plex-compatible naming for my tv show library. Example for One Piece:
One Piece (1999)/Staffel 1 - East Blue/s01e001 Hier kommt Ruffy, der künftige König der Piraten.mkv

But it does only obtain the first 8 episode titles and TVDB-thumbnails of season 1:

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(all other seasons are without titles, too)

I think its because episode 9 was released in 2000 and not in 1999. Because of that I renamed the main folder from “One Piece (1999)” to “One Piece/”. It re-scanned the complete tv show and still stops at episode 8?! How is it possible as it is undated, now?

I checked other tv shows and although they all have a year in the main folder (and the same naming structure), they all have correct titles for all seasons / episodes.

Is this a bug or what could be the reason?

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The naming should be ok as it finds all seasons:

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The problem is that TVDB is completely wrong as season 1 contains 61 episodes and not only 8:

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You’ll have to convince the guys over at TheTVDb.com forums that they got it wrong… and usually right (sometimes for odd reasons). Sometimes it’s worth to double-check the series structure in a different reference… It appears One Piece is listed in the way you prefer on TheMovieDb.org, so you could re-match the series using The Movie Database agent!

As for “The naming should be ok…” – it’s not :wink:
You might get lucky with it but you really might want to consider fixing it (in particular if you want to re-match the show anyway).
Generic example:

Library Folder
   Show Name (Year)
      Season XX
         Show Name (Year) - sXXeYY - Optional Episode Name.ext
         Show Name (Year) - sXXeYY.ext
         ...

One Piece example:

TV Shows
   One Piece (1999)
      Season 01
         One Piece (1999) - s01e01.mkv
         One Piece (1999) - s01e02.mkv
         ...

One Piece on…

Edit: got a sentence right :wink:

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The TVDB guys are rude and won’t change it:
https://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?p=41889#p41889

So I changed the agent to TMDB (after removing the complete tv shows as changing the agent does not affect existing content, why?) and now its correct. Thanks!

Regarding your suggestion to rename all files:
1.) Of course I could rename the season-folders. But not everyone in my household understands English and as long it works I use the German translation.
2.) But adding the tv show name and year additionally to all episode file names does not make sense to me in a semantic point of view. In German I would say “doppelt gemoppelt” (~exaggerated organized). I really don’t hope Plex will ever force users to name their files like that ^^

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You can pick an individual agent when manually matching a show / movie without changing the agent of the entire library.
If you change the agent for the entire library, this will impact all future additions to that library.

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Makes sense.

That’s the part I did not expected. If I change the default agent I expect a complete re-scan. Fun fact: It re-scans everything after chaging the default agent, but with the old agent.

Maybe this point should be reconsidered. At least a little popup should inform the user that it affects only future additions. Because I waited all the time for the new metadata and finally it was for nothing.

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