Plex's File Matching is Really Broken

You can’t.

You can’t.

“Extra data” are irrelevant for Plex and may be only there for the human who may read these files names occasionally.

You have these options:

  • Consider, that it is actually your files which are using the wrong oder. Particularly when all three of the ordering alternatives on TheTVDB don’t fit your files. Then change the episode numbers of your files to what is listed on TheTVDB.
  • Look up the show at themoviedb.org (TMDB) and see if they are using an episode order that fits your files better. If they do, use the ‘Fix Match’ (with ‘Search Options’) command to divert the matching to TMDB instead.
  • use the ‘Fix Match’ command to match your files to the ‘Personal Media Shows’ agent instead. You will have to supply/type in all metadata yourself, including the episode titles (unless you are using mp4 files and they have the proper episode titles in their embedded metatags).
    You can supply the graphics as “side car” files, see https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220717-local-media-assets-tv-shows/

I my humble opinion, it is option 1 which takes the least effort. And software like Filebot can make even this a snap.