Server Version#: 1.21.1.3830 Player Version#: latest web I was checking some specials in top gear and despite having named them correctly, it won’t match correctly. I tried re-matching the entire show to align again with the tvdb, but this didn’t change anything. For example, S00E04 is stars in …

Thanks I’ll give that a go. Though these files were just added and matched wrong on the first go. edit1: I do have a whole bunch of MP4 files in my library, do I need to remove all of these before I can use this tool?! (thousands) (though not the files in question. edit2: I also just added these f…

If the files in question sre .mp4 you could try editing your TV Show Agent. Move Local Asset to the bottom of the list or disable it.

Done, and when I added the show again it got auto matched with top gear russia (and the other server didn’t find anything at all, they both share the same fileshare), fix match looking for top gear doesn’t even show it and only returns top gear russia, I had to fix match and search for 74608 to find…

Looking at the specials, episode 60 to 68 are, according to the TVDB the episodes "ambitious but rubbish part 1 through 8) (and are named accordingly in the filenames). But when added and looking at the episode names, only episode 8 (68) seems to be named correctly and the rest is just “cocked up”. …

What is set in the properties of your tv show library as ‘Scanner’ and ‘Agent’?#

Agent is TVDB, where do I find scanner? and just FYI, everything else, all other series etc are going well, it’s only the specials on this show

What’s wrong with mp4 files? They’re explicitly supported by Plex.

[image] pjrobar: What’s wrong with mp4/mv4 files? Yes, but they’re the only filetype from which Plex can read embedded meta tags. Amongst these in particular, the Title meta tag. Now imagine you previously used a different database or episode order, either intentionally or by mistake. And the…

[image] wannial: Agent is TVDB, where do I find scanner? Right above Agent in the Advanced settings for the Library. [Screenshot_2021-01-07 Plex(2)]

Plex doesn't match correct episode name with tvdb (despite files being named correctly)

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OttoKerner January 7, 2021, 1:59pm 2

Make sure your files are not mp4/m4v. Then dance: Plex Dance

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