Why when i organize my TV Shows and properly name episodes and Series names, when i add anything new to Tv Shows, Plex scrambles my already organized files? Example…Bosch and Bosch Legacy…i put all Bosch seasons properly named into Bosch and all Properly edited tagged and named season of Bosch Legacy..everything matches fine…when i add a new show to the library, it Moves seasons of Bosch into Bosch Legacy…i’ve tried everything and no matter what i do ..Plex messes it up..any
help
Post a screenshot of your directory layout.
here is The Wire ( all 5 Seasons are labeled exactly the same…
That is how plex adds The Wire S4…i’ve edited this 15 times and it just won’t take even though it is read as The Wire in the media section…i’ve edited all tags..match unmatch fix match and nothing..
So… just to clarify.
Your library is pointing at /Volumes/Easy Story Main Drive/TV Series?
You need to seriously consider cleaning up your file/folder naming inside that library folder!
- drop all the technical junk (or at least place it in a set of square brackets)
- stick to the actual show name and not what box they came in
All that mumbo jumbo has the potential of throwing Plex off.
e.g.
My TV Series <- the folder linked in your library
The Wire (2002) [The Wire Complete Box Set 1080p BluRay x 265 HEVC 10bit OPUS 6 Ch (2002-2008)]
Season 04 [1080p BluRay x 265 HEVC 10bit OPUS 6 Ch]
The Wire (2002) - s04e01 - Boys of Summer.mkv
or even cleaner
My TV Series <- the folder linked to your library
The Wire (2002)
Season 04
The Wire (2002) - s04e01 - Boys of Summer.mkv
Edit:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/
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hey thanx for responding and i hear ya but…i have 2’000 tv shows and no way i’m renaming them all…and all my TV shows have all that junk and Plex reads 3 out of 5 but scrambles 2 when they all are labeled exactly the same… i don’t see that as a me thing…
There’s tools that can help with cleaning up those names, filebot being one of them.
If you want to stick with the current naming, you’ll need to accept that Plex can’t fix that 100% and will occasionally stumble.
Plex can only tell what files are when they are presented in a directory structure that it understands. It does not understand that it should ignore phrases like “Complete Box Set” or all the technical info you have included. Naming folder following prescribed ways is how to avoid matching issues with series and individual files.
You not wanting to follow those rules is a you problem.
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nah i added the folder as a whole and it added 3 of the 5 seasons perfectly but gave me Chinese lettering and completely different titles. for 2…so yeah like i said..not a me thing..
thanx for your help but if Plex reads 3 out of 5 files in a series but scrambles the other 2 which are named EXACTLY as the first 3..i don’t see how cleaning up my files helps
Common saying here in the forum is: You might get lucky deviating from the official naming schema… until you don’t.
I’ll leave it at this.
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i hear ya…explain this one…i added these files after " cleaning them up" and this is what i got…S1 has 8 episodes but Plex decided to mix 2 seasons together..and S7 has 12 episodes but Plex decided it only has 3…
Exact file names please (incl. folders).
If you changed the names after you originally catalogued the files, you might need to do a Plex Dance to make plex forget the current associations.
Thanx for that..appreciate all the help but i’m done with Plex TV…garbage
Jellyfin is actually worse at this stuff. I can tell you from first-hand experience.
I would suggest setting up Sonarr and pointing it at your library, and have it reorganize the files. It can even make .plexmatch files for show matching for you.
My canned response is to see https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/ and:
If you want to save yourself a lot of time I would recommend using https://www.tinymediamanager.org/ and use:
Episode format:
${showTitle} - S${seasonNr2}E${episodeNr2} - ${title}
Folder format:
${showTitle} (${showYear}) {tvdb-${tvShow.ids.tvdb}}/Season ${seasonNr2}
as the new name format.
You can cleanup thousands of files fairly quickly.
I have been using MCE Buddy for over a decade and Love it. You don’t need to transcode you videos to use the app, it will quietly move and rename your series based on what it finds on IMDb or TheTVdb - I force the all to only use TheTVdb so the naming is consistent.
You won’t be disappointed.
Hey thanx…extremely helpful
Thanx for the help
hey thanx but i don’t use windows…
- drop all the technical junk (or at least place it in a set of square brackets)
- hey thanx for this…i put all the “mumbo jumbo” into those brackets for the files i was having trouble with and it fixed 95% of them HUGE HELP…
