Plex's File Matching is Really Broken

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@OttoKerner

Filebot can do that, AFAIR. i.e. it can supply your files with the right numbers if they have only titles.

I did a forum post a while back about a variation on that concept, after TVDB changed the numbering on some episodes I had previously named. Could be useful info in this situation, too.

How to fix episode numbers with Filebot after TVDB changes the order

I found a solution to a problem and simply wanted to share it with the class. I have a series where TheTVDB’s episode order was not only clearly wrong, but also locked. A while back, I gave up and re-numbered the episodes to match TheTVDB, even though it was, again, clearly wrong. Well, they finally fixed the order recently. Now, the order is listed correctly in the Plex interface, but it plays the wrong episodes due to the file numbering now being wrong. So I was in a state where all the titl…