Recently the Plex Media Server stopped showing the names of the episodes. Did something change? The name of the episode is part of the file name and it looks right to me. I’ve attached three screen shots, one showing the list of episodes in a season with the oldest ones showing the names of the episodes and the newest not showing the names of the episodes. I then show the file info for episode 9 which is displaying the episode name and file info for episode 10 which is not displaying the episode. Thanks.
Sleepy Hollow doesn’t contain (YEAR) in the name at TVDB - this may actually do more harm than good having it there:
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=269578&lid=7
MP4/M4V files may contain bogus embedded Title Fields. Plex will read this info and prefer it over a perfect file name/structure (you look pretty good there), but you can combat that situation by moving Local Media Assets to the bottom of every agent list you can find. All tabs in TV Show and Movies here:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200241558-Agents
Just drag LMA to the bottom of the list and drop it. If you do have embedded metadata this will cure the issue, if you don’t it won’t matter. LMA will do what it has to from the bottom.
After moving LMA if a ‘Refresh’ doesn’t do anything:
The Plex Dance®:
- remove show from library
- update library
- empty trash
- clean bundles
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles - bring names and structures into compliance
- replace corrected show into library
- update library
All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.
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Are those shows recorded with Plex DVR? I’m not 100% sure, but I believe the Plex DVR adds the year to all TV shows. I can’t use the DVR function, so I can’t test it. I have read some posts in that forum though, where people have asked why the year is added to TV show libraries. Maybe it’s why sometimes we have to use year when we shouldn’t, and sometimes we remove the year when we should have it according to TVDB. Just sayin’ >:)
JuiceWSA - Thanks! I will try that!
@leelynds said:
Are those shows recorded with Plex DVR? I’m not 100% sure, but I believe the Plex DVR adds the year to all TV shows. I can’t use the DVR function, so I can’t test it. I have read some posts in that forum though, where people have asked why the year is added to TV show libraries. Maybe it’s why sometimes we have to use year when we shouldn’t, and sometimes we remove the year when we should have it according to TVDB. Just sayin’ >:)
No those are not recorded with Plex DVR. I use TabloTV to record the show and then use TabloRipper to pull them off of the TabloTV and put them on my Plex Server… There’s a checkbox to select “use plex naming”
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JuiceWSA - Actually, there are a LOT of shows that did that seemingly after a certain date (not just sleepy hollow)… that seems a bit time consuming (the plex dance part) to do that for every show so I may just leave well enough alone and hope one day it fixes itself with an update or something. Moving LMA and refreshing didn’t do anything.
@Jerz66 said:
JuiceWSA - Actually, there are a LOT of shows that did that seemingly after a certain date (not just sleepy hollow)… that seems a bit time consuming (the plex dance part) to do that for every show so I may just leave well enough alone and hope one day it fixes itself with an update or something. Moving LMA and refreshing didn’t do anything.
Remakes/Reboots of previous shows always have (YEAR) in the Title at TVDB. In the old days - before Plex decided to add corners to a wheel that was previously round (improving it, of course) - we just used the name at TVDB and it was all flowers and kittens. Filebot worked like it should and everything matched.
Now Plex is trying to backwards engineer a DVR Feature (that has basically been broken for nearly 30 years due to THE IDIOTS THAT WORK THE EPGS) so Plex is going to change the world, and Plex, so it won’t work with anything, except maybe Plex DVR, but from what I hear that’s broken too.
There’s a rather molten topic right now about how Plex has screwed up the way 480p is labled - in another effort to make Plex work with Plex DVR (I guess), improving that old, tired, round wheel with one in the shape of a Trapezoid - sure to make things better.
For 2 weeks (or more - just noticed it two weeks ago) my Droid Phone Plex app reports: “Unfortunately Plex Has Stopped”. I wouldn’t be too surprised by that if it weren’t for the fact that the Plex app isn’t even running on it when I’m told it’s stopped and to make matters worse, it’s stopped before I can even get it started, so as you might guess - it’s not working. The post I added to in the Mobile Section about that bug has gone unanswered - due to Plex being busy with more important things.
Anyway…
The bottom line is that we have that bug wherein Plex can’t have it’s stupid, flea bitten dog drop a bogus bundle and write a new one without doing The Plex Dance. Plex doesn’t have time to fix that 10 year old bug 'cause they’re working on other, more important things, like Plex DVR and forcing X-Rated Movie Trailers into their Discovery Hubs for your 8 year old.
Do the Plex Dance. It ain’t gonna fix itself or deal with the stuff that’s there now. If you moved LMA the new stuff should behave, but maybe not. With a half bogus bundle Plex can’t update with the right information you may never see an episode name. Hard to say at this point.
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