I’ve recently added One Piece the anime to my Plex collection. All 1074 episodes (thus far) and realized that some of the episodes are missing on Plex. When viewing on Plex, it says there are only 1070 episodes for the show. I’ve gone through and identified which episodes are “missing” and I’ve come across a peculiar thing… The episodes aren’t missing so much as Plex has renamed them. I found this out because in certain seasons, there are episodes which don’t belong there. For example, in Season 20, the first episode Plex displays is Episode 20 and it should be Episode 892. The same applies with Season 19; where the first Episode should be 783 but instead is Episode 66.
When I look at the info for Episode 20 that’s in Season 20, It points to the the file for Episode 976 which is “missing” in that season. Looking at the name of the file “[Anime Time] One Piece - 0976 - Back to the Present Day! 20 Years Later!”, it appears to me that Plex is only looking at the number in between the two exclamation marks and using that as the Episode number and title rather than the actual episode number. I looked into it some more and found the same to be in Season 19 where 4 episodes are “missing” and the first episode listed on Plex is Episode 66. When looking at the actual files for the 4 episodes missing from that season, they all have the number 66 in the episode title in between the 2 exclamation marks. For example: [Anime Time] One Piece - 0839 - The Evil Army! Transform! Germa 66! and [Anime Time] One Piece - 0835 - Run, Sanji! SOS! Germa 66!
Why is this happening and is there a way to get it to read the names properly without renaming them something else? I don’t want to have to spell out the numbers in these titles because I like to have my names exactly as they were intended. I tried looking around the forums to see if anyone else had the same problem but couldn’t find anything. I couldn’t find anything on the way Plex reads file names when it pertains to exclamation marks either.
fix it how? the names are the names. I have no problems with the hundreds of other shows I have on my Plex. It’s just these particular episodes. There are other episodes with 2 exclamation marks and things in between them and Plex finds those without issue. It may not display the title but at least it gets the episode number correct.
I went over the article you referenced when I first got my Plex about a year ago and had naming issues. However, that article and the subsequent ones for naming don’t apply here.
The episode is currently named “[Anime Time] One Piece - 0976 - Back to the Present Day! 20 Years Later!”. Based on what you’re saying, I should have it renamed as “[Anime Time] One Piece - S20E0976 - Back to the Present Day! 20 Years Later!” or just “S20E0976”?
No that is the total episode number. As of today, there are currently 1075 episodes and counting. The way the show is, they don’t start up a new number system for every season. It is a continuous counting cycle. So there is no Season 2 Episode 1 or Season 3 Episode 1. It’s Season 2 Episode 63 and Season 3 Episode 78
Plex uses TVDB or TMDB to find metadata. You need to decide if you are using absolute or season/aired ordering. It does not matter whatever the production company which makes that anime does if you expect the server to get metadata because there is no S20E976 on the sites we get metadata from.
TMDB does not seem to have all the episodes in one show
TVDB as them but you need to use their naming as mentioned not the production companies
okay I’ll give that a shot.
However, my question still remains, Why does it not have that problem with any other episode that has 2 exclamation marks? For instance “[Anime Time] One Piece - 0894 - He’ll Come! The Legend of Ace in the Land of Wano!” It finds this without any problems. Sure it might not display the episode name but, It displays the episode number and puts it in the correct order. That episode is from Season 20, there are episodes with similar naming styles in other seasons as well and they are all fine.
Our metadata team devs are on at the moment for me to ask them. I didn’t think exclamation marks had anything to do with matching but there likely are lots of intricacies that usually don’t matter but sometimes do.
Yes, please ask them and let me know. Because going through all the Naming documents on the Plex Support site, nothing is ever mentioned about exclamation marks. And I looked through all of the relevant naming documentations before creating this thread. I’d really like to gain an understanding as to why this is happening and if it is a possible bug, hopefully it’ll be brought to the appropriate team to rectify.
Do you have other episodes that have a number in the episode title without exclamation marks? I have a feeling just having two separate numbers is the issue not the exclamation marks.
Yes. This is in Season 4 of the show “[Anime Time] One Piece - 0114 - Sworn on a Friend’s Dream! The Battle of Molehill, Block 4!” This one shows up with no issues whatsoever. And it even displays the episode name.
but that has a number between exclamation marks so I still don’t think the exclamation marks are the issue.
I’m guessing at the moment it is likely because the other examples you gave with issue have another number that is 2 or more digits. 20 or 66. But we can spend all day guessing. Ill let you know what I find out from metadata team
Just FYI I was reading the TMDB wrong. They don’t list season number and just show the season title so I was confused when looking it . So if using TMDB ordering it should work to do like S21E976
