I am unsure if there is an answer to this but
How do I name a windows file to pick up via TVDB for ‘BBC Documentaries’ ?
where the season is in the form xxxx ie 2014 (year) and the episode Numbers are in the valid form yy ie 03 ? I understand the only valid form that I am reading is SxxEyy ?
Season numbers can be 4-digit, no problem.
Is also required for e.g. ‘Looney Tunes’
I’ve never had to deal with a TV show that uses the actual year as the season number. Maybe you can convert the year to a season numbering system: 1936 = 01, 1950 = 02, 1955 = 03, etc. Try it with a single year to see if that works.
You use the year as the ‘Season’. Just check out exactly how thetvdb.com has catalogued the show. To take an example of a recent documentary on Channel 4
Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries/Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries - Season 2017/Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries - S2017E42 - Flat Pack Mansions.mkv
@nigelpb said:
You use the year as the ‘Season’. Just check out exactly how thetvdb.com has catalogued the show. To take an example of a recent documentary on Channel 4Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries/Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries - Season 2017/Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries - S2017E42 - Flat Pack Mansions.mkv
BTW I tried to use the example of S2017E33 The Super ■■■■■■ but evidently there is a censor operating on this forum & the word ■■■■■■ is deemed too shocking to display when originally posting but as I just discovered the censor doesn’t operate when a post is edited after posting.
Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries/
…Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries - Season 2017/
…Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries - S2017E42 - Flat Pack Mansions.mkv
Incorrect.
Better visit The Guide for Naming/Structuring TV Shows - 'cause if that works now, it won’t for long:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows
A TV Show Library Folder/
…Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries/
…Season 2017/
…Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries - S2017E42 - Flat Pack Mansions.mkv
Would be correct.
I just added this one and a BBC Doc - working fine.
A TV Show Library Folder
…Horizon
…Season 2017
…Horizon - S2017E05 - Strange Signals from Outer Space!.mp4 <—FileBot added that ‘!’ - I would have left it out.
@JuiceWSA said:
Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries/
…Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries - Season 2017/
…Channel 4 (UK) Documentaries - S2017E42 - Flat Pack Mansions.mkv
Incorrect.
Better visit The Guide for Naming/Structuring TV Shows - 'cause if that works now, it won’t for long:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows
I have always labelled my folders in this form. I think that having standalone folder names like ‘Season 2017’ or ‘Series 1’ is very confusing as you don’t know to which series it belongs except in the context of the nested folder structure. Trust me. This format works & in particular it works on Plex Cloud which is much more picky than local PMS.
TV/Series Name/Series Name - Series 1/
Series Name S01E01.mkv
Series Name S01E02.mkv
Series Name S01E03.mkv
etc
@nigelpb said:
I have always labelled my folders in this form. I think that having standalone folder names like ‘Season 2017’ or ‘Series 1’ is very confusing as you don’t know to which series it belongs except in the context of the nested folder structure. Trust me. This format works & in particular it works on Plex Cloud which is much more picky than local PMS.TV/Series Name/Series Name - Series 1/
Series Name S01E01.mkv
Series Name S01E02.mkv
Series Name S01E03.mkv
etc
You are welcome to do whatever you like, Buddy… even if it’s wrong. When you start telling someone else that’s looking for help how to do something wrong - I’m going to call you on it. Your way is wrong. My examples are right. Period.
Users that want to mitigate current, or future issues with TV Shows, it’s a pretty darn good idea to stick with Full and Absolute Compliance right from day one. To do ANYTHING else is foolish. TV Shows in Plex is the area where the slightest alteration in ‘correct and proper’ can and does cause issues on a daily basis.
You can go Rattlesnake hunting nude if you want to - but one day it’s a pretty safe bet you’re gonna get bit.
I don’t just make this stuff up. Here’s the Guide:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows
Here’s your show’s Season at TVDB:
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=81903&seasonid=694233&lid=7
You have the show name and the file name right, but you have the Season Name Wrong.
Hi
not geting too far with this so far
(I’m on windows 10/plex 1.5.5)
there seems a need to better match Plex and TVDB on some season entries. It does seem to follow the written standard of 2 digit season numbers
as mentioned ‘UKTV Documentaries’ is also one i’m looking at which follows the yyyy season standard on TVDB, and probably easier to test any changes
but it is not processing 4 digit season number, say as yyyy format. It seems to accept them, not processing them but defaults them to 1 . I am trying relative numbers but that seems to fail completely.
regards
Follow the Plex Guides for naming and structuring and the ‘correct’ examples above.
4 digit seasons are ONLY used when TVDB is using them - ALWAYS use the show names exactly as shown at TVDB - unless your show is a ‘re-make’ and you are trying to match the first version.
Fiddling with names and structures while items are in a library is a bad idea:
The Plex Dance®:
All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.
If The Plex Dance doesn’t produce the intended result, reveal exactly the name of the item(s) you’re trying to match and attach a full set of log files:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200250417-Plex-Media-Server-Log-Files
Drag zip file to message window and drop it.
Hi,
finally got this working… after ‘plex Dance’ !, removing files, and restarting PLex
Previously I had not included the sub-directory for the , say ‘Season 15’ format, when I had only had one season or say one episode. This I have had done previously and only referencing the season via the file naming standard under the TV show’s name directory. This method doesn’t work with the ‘season 2015’ format and initially when I added the ‘season 2015’ subdirectory with other changes made (You could get a lot of sub-directories with something like BBC Documentaries or as someone else mentioned Loonie Tunes !)
thanks for help
@kegobeer-plex said:
I’ve never had to deal with a TV show that uses the actual year as the season number. Maybe you can convert the year to a season numbering system: 1936 = 01, 1950 = 02, 1955 = 03, etc. Try it with a single year to see if that works.
You can. That’s what I did not knowing the year thing for Looney Tunes show and for The Pretender specials…
