Plex TV Season episodes losing Title when new episodes added

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I have some martial arts videos in a Library of type ‘TV Shows’

I have several folders of them, one for each topic, such as Bo Training.

I give the episode files names like:
s09e01 - Workout - 15 Minute Bo Staff Workout - Cardio and Core Burn.mp4
s09e02 - Workout - 10 Minute Combat Bo HIIT Workout.mp4

So far so good. Since there are no metadata sources to populate the episode Title, I am doing it manually by editing each episode, typing in the title, selecting the lock icon and saving the episode.

So far so good again.

But if I add ANY new files to one of the folders, ALL of episodes for that folder/show/topic lose there episode titles after the library scan completes.

Sometimes the Title is still in the Sort Order field, sometimes not. The lock icons aren’t consistently set any longer afterward either.

This library is the only one this happens to.

The only thing I’m doing here that I don’t do anywhere else is using a javascript hack to add a Title field to the season editor, so I can name the seasons something other than ‘Season 1’, ‘Season 2’, etc.

For example, instead of Season 1, I’ll call it ‘Introductions’

I suspect that’s the cause, and was hoping one of you could confirm, or tell me how to fix it so I can continue renaming seasons.

For reference, the way I add the Title field is via a bookmarklet:

javascript:var ta = document.getElementById(“lockable-summary”);if(!ta){alert(“Can’t find submission form!”);exit;} var outer = document.createElement(“div”);var nameLabel=document.createElement(“div”);var nameOb=document.createElement(“input”);var attName = document.createAttribute(“name”);attName.value = “title”;nameOb.setAttributeNode(attName);nameLabel.innerHTML= “NAME:”;outer.appendChild(nameLabel);outer.appendChild(nameOb);ta.parentNode.appendChild(outer);exit;

I’d really love to be able to add new videos to an existing folder/‘show’ and NOT lost all of the metadata for all of those episodes.

Thanks in advance.

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Not sure about that „hack“.
There’s currently a forum preview of the future tv-show agent that’s going to support downloading custom season titles. If I remember correctly there’s been a mention that it’ll be possible to manually edit those season titles.
I suppose once this is officially released you can also use it for your personal media shows type library.

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Any idea on the timeline?

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I have no idea about the timeline.
Supposedly the official beta of the agent should start soon (as in „the next few days/weeks“) — however that’s just my guess.

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Hi, thanks for your reply.

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While it may be cumbersome, manually adding your edits is the safest option, to help avoid database corruption

How would I do that?

I’m not trying to Match or Fix Match. It’s just that Plex scans the folder automatically and I don’t see a way to tell it not to for that one Library?

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I’m sorry to have offended you somehow, but I know how to change an episodes title. My issue is trying to change the season name. If there is a way to change that, I don’t see it.

Also, I am painfully aware that it is wiping out my customizations when it scans. That’s the reason I posted initially… to ask how to make it stop, if it can, because clicking the lock icon isn’t working.

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May I be of assistance here?

I an curious. “change the season name” ?

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Yes, thanks. As mentioned above, I have some martial arts videos in a Library of type ‘TV Shows’

I have several folders of them, one for each topic, such as Bo Training.

I give the episode files names like:
s09e01 - Workout - 15 Minute Bo Staff Workout - Cardio and Core Burn.mp4
s09e02 - Workout - 10 Minute Combat Bo HIIT Workout.mp4

So, what is happening is that, inside the show ‘Bo Training’, I get a “Season 9”, filled with individual episodes. The episodes are fine the way they are.

I would prefer that “Season 9” be “Workout” instead.

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Thanks for your time.

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@tigycho

Your naming is incorrect

1, These are “Other Videos” and not “TV Shows”
2. When you make “Other Videos”, you can name them how you want.

TV Shows MUST have this structure (which is why you are having trouble)

Series Name/
 Season nn/
  Series Name - SnnExx - optional title.ext

Notice how that doesn’t work well with your videos?

That’s why Plex has “Other Videos” so you can create what you need.

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Thank you. I’ll look around for the folder/file naming conventions for ‘Other Videos’

I appreciate it

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I’m so confused.

Can you point me to an article on how to structure the folders and filenames for ‘Other Videos’?

For example, if I have a library called ‘Test Other’. Then I want a ‘show’ called ‘Tournaments’. That should be broken up into ‘Bismarck 2002’, ‘Fargo 2014’, etc. Then in each of those, individual episodes like ‘Bob vs Dan, Round 1’

I tried following this, but I didn’t have any luck getting files to structure, which I’m sure is down to me just not getting all this.

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@tigycho

The beauty of “Other Videos” is you create the folder structure any way you want.

Let’s start at the top:

MyVideos/ ← this is what we use as the top of the “Other Videos” library.

Underneath that, we might have

MyVideos/
  Work Out/
    P90/
      Level 1/
          Session 1 - Core - Part 1.mkv
          Session 2 - Core - Part 2.mkv
          Session 3 - Legs.mkv
          Session 4 - Back.mkv

      etc.

  Training Sessions/
     Beginners/

     Intermediates/

     Experienced/

You have total freedom to use what you want.

Is this what you’re hoping to do?

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Ideally, yes. So, I changed the folder structure to match your example:

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Then I made a new Library of type ‘Other Videos’, and chose ‘MyVideos’.

The three videos are being ‘stacked’ on top of each other. Maybe I don’t understand what the UI is supposed to do?

I was expecting it to lay itself out like a TV show does, but this is what I’m seeing:

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I super appreciate your patience. It feels like the answer is just out of reach, but I don’t know the right questions to ask.

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Are you saying that once you use the Personal Media Shows agent on a show during Match / Fix Match Plex will consider it matched?
Is there a way to tell which shows you’ve used the Personal Media Shows agent on afterward?

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I think that’s the part @tigycho was missing.
Really good to know. That will be handy. Thanks.

Yup, that’s me. Could always add a Tag too I suppose.

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