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 e…

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 …

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 so…

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. …

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. M…

@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 …

Plex Server Not Showing Episode Name

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Jerz66 May 23, 2017, 11:21am 2

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Plex will not add episode names to Personal Series

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