and various combinations with and without 0. But the Plex on my Roku tv always shows them (7 seasons) as things like Pokemon, Walking Dead, House. Not Newhart. I have tried everything but
Do your files maybe contain some embedded metadata that could throw Plex off? This should only apply for MP4/M4V files…
Otherwise your actual file naming looks ok, assuming your library is pointing at C:\media\TV Shows\…
Just to verify…
The show is also messed up in Plex Web or only on your Roku?
Both on the Plex via Chrome and the Plex via Roku. Not sure there is any way to change the default library location? I actually put the files where I believed the library was pointing.
They are MP4, but I don’t know whether they have embedded metadata? Is there a way to check? The same thing happens, by the way, with “Coach”, which I also legally purchased.
I believe you can see some embedded metadata via Windows’ Explorer (File Properties → Title). For a more detailed look into your file and its metadata you can use e.g. apps like mp3tag.
If that’s the issue you can either remove/fix the embedded title or decrease the priority of the local metadata in your agent settings (Settings > Server > Agents; pick the agent used by your library; drag Local Media Assets to be lower end of the list).
Some icons let me “fix match” and search with terms. other ones don’t. So I fixed some. Not sure why newhart would have metadata encoded in the mp4 for Pokemon or Walking Dead?
Fix Match is only available on the tv show level – not for seasons or episodes.
Your files don’t actually need to contain the actual words “Pokemon” or “Walking Dead”… the embedded title could still result in Plex getting those shows as best matching shows. You’d be surprised what some software writes into the embedded metadata
If you mean by that, that you are downloading into a subfolder of the folder where Plex is looking for media, then stop doing that.
Use a folder for downloading/ripping that is completely outside of Plex’s scope.
Perform the Plex Dance with all files and folders of the mismatched show(s).
Then perhaps you did not add the folder C:\media\TV Shows to your library, but you pointed to C:\media\TV Shows\Coach directly – which is the wrong way to do it.
btw always use padded numbers to 2-digits ( Coach - s01e01.mkv), unless you have higher numbers to accomodate, like episode numbers over 100 or season numbers which use years like Looney Tunes - S1940E24 - A Wild Hare.mkv.
If you want a separate library, you’ll have to create a separate top-level folder for all your coaching “shows”. C:\media\Coaching\Coach\Coach - s01e01.mkv
