Plex scanner misses episode whose name begins with a number. `Name_S01E02-0.0003_names`

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Server Version#: 1.31.2.6810

Consider the directory Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl/Season_01/ containing:

Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E01-City_of_Aliens-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E02-Reverie_of_My_Disappearing_Adolescence-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E03-A_Strange_Moment_for_the_Girl_Bound_to_the_Ground-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E04-One_Month_to_Mend_a_Broken_Right_Arm-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E05-The_Melancholy_of_Thanksgiving-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E06-Ryū'ko'-san's_feeling._kinda._glum-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E07-A_Day_Someone_Will_Remember-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E08-Tsiolkovsky's_Prayer-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E09-Region_Limited_Alien_Incident-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E10-Overhanging_Deck_Girl-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E11-This_Summer_is_about_Basketball_and_Espers_and_Futons_and_Astronomical_Observations_and_Festivals_and_Baseball_and_Meme_and-[Bluray-1080p].mkv
Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E12-0.00000000198_Centimeters_Per_Second-[Bluray-1080p].mkv

Plex recognizes only the first 11. Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E12-0.00000000198_Centimeters_Per_Second-[Bluray-1080p].mkv is not recognized. The logs spit back a warning about an invalid episode range.

Is there a way to have plex recognize this that does not include:

  1. Renaming the file. (It is auto-named and will be reverted if changed)
  2. Disabling the range scanner for the rest of the library (ranges are good for some shows)
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We have a potential fix in the next release for the invalid range issue. In the mean time you can use the Plexmatch feature to get that file to scan properly. https://support.plex.tv/articles/plexmatch/

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For reference, and so that I can remove that file when the new update is released, what new version (number) will contain this fix? As in, what is the version number at which point the plexmatch feature will not be necessary for this? Thanks!

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That would be 1.31.3.

Edit - To be clear, we found where a number after the dash was being treated as an episode range. I donā€™t know if it will fix your specific example, but it may. After that release comes out let me know if it worked. If not, I can ask the team to look again.

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Perhaps reformatting the name adding spaces between the dash and other text (e.g. Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl - S01E12 - 0.00000000198_Centimeters_Per_Second-[Bluray-1080p].mkv

Iā€™ve never had the multi-episode error using this format (edit: underscores have odd results in many instances as well)

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Renaming is not an option unfortunately.

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I am now running version 1.31.3.6868. I removed the .plexmatch file, removed the file, preformed a scan, then restarted plex, then added the file back (without the .plexmatch) and preformed another scan. Once again I am seeing in the logs:

Plex Media Server Logs_2023-03-28_21-59-35/Plex Media Server.log:Mar 28, 2023 21:59:14.595 [0x7ffb8b551b38] WARN - Scanner: episode range for '"/anime/Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl/Season_01/Ground_Control_to_Psychoelectric_Girl-S01E12-0.00000000198_Centimeters_Per_Second-[Coalgirls-Bluray-1080p].mkv"' is invalid (epStart: 12, epEnd: 0)

Plex still does not pick up on the episode without a dedicated .plexmatch file.

I can provide logs if desired.

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Thanks for the report. We are looking into this.

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Weā€™ll have a fix for this in a future PMS update.

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:slight_smile: Do you happen to know the version this will be fixed with? Or is it simply on the roadmap to be fixed? Thanks.

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The fix is ready but I donā€™t know what version it will get pulled into. Should be soon.

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Do you know if this will also fix Plex failing with this name?

Season_07/Futurama-S07E12-31st_Century_Fox-[Bluray-1080p].mkv

As you might have guessed, this matched episodes 12-31. But it is only episode 12.

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Always place a space after the episode number(s) and you wont have these issues

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Iā€™m not naming these myself and cannot rename them, as mentioned in the original post.

In the interim, is a line I can add in .plexmatch to say ā€œonly episode 12, do not match this file to any other episodeā€? Iā€™ve made .plexmatch files before to force specific matches, but never to prevent plex from matching before. Since the season is less than 31 episodes, I cannot just simply match every episode either, I need to explicitly prevent plex from deciding that ā€˜episode 31ā€™ exists. (Again, changing the name of the file is off limits for me). Thanks!

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