This was a disaster.
The fundamental failing I think was many-fold.
- The channel data was correct, but this information was never reliably used in the TV database. Plex sometimes used this data, but dumped it as soon as the media folder was scanned and it attempted to “match” it again.
- There is no way to reliably override what Plex wants to do. I MANY times edited the data manually, but Plex overrode it when scanning the media folder. This should not happen. If I set something manually, Plex should LEAVE IT ALONE.
- Jamming multiple recordings into the same entry in the media library just because they were recorded on the same day was extremely frustrating. Just put them in different entries, so I have a prayer of finding the recordings for today. It would dump them into some other recordings, so I would have to manually search for on the web version for episodes with multiple “versions” look at the file info and find the episode I was searching for.
