Hi all, very old to plex, but first time posting here.
I’ve been using plex for 10 year plus and only just started experiencing this issue. I have a series that is 14 seasons long.
Whenever I mark episode 11 as played for example, it also marks episode 111 as played. Same is true for unplayed and for the full range of number between 100 and 199.
For example:
E10 = E110
E26 = E126
My numbering convention is S01e010 and S07E110 for example and each season is in it’s own folder… It still will not differentiate the episodes and continues to match their played/unplayed status. It makes it really difficult to keep track of where I’m up to.
I’ve tried removing and reinstating the whole folder to force a refresh and I tried various styles of numbering but nothing helped. If anybody could assist it would be greatly appreciated. Cheers
Also - that ain’t the way you name a Season.
It’s not even close.
Season 08 <—that’s what you’re allowed - no more - no less.
Other than being wrong - not bad on the file names.
So, your options are extremely limited:
rename all your stuff to match one of these online databases if you want to draw metadata automatically.
or
Fix Match/Search Options/Agent/Personal Media/
Select the only one in the list
and start hand editing each episode the way you want them.
I’ll let you decide which one you prefer.
Reference Material:
Somewhere around here - on the forum - there’s an ‘anime’ agent or two that might ease your pain. ‘anime agent’ search may reveal something. May not. If it doesn’t try ‘plex anime agent’ in Google. Probably lead you right back here - what we want, actually.
Really appreciate the input. Renaming the seasons folders properly resolved the whole issue.
I really should have considered that as a possibility before coming to the forums I’ve just never experienced this issue in all my years using Plex (even with oddly named season folders).
In any case, problem solved. Thanks again and apologies for the oversight!
No you did a mix of season and absolute numbering. If you use season numbering, every new season starts with E01, but you kept counting them up.
So S08E152 has to be S08E01.
I see what you’re saying and I usually do restart at 1 for each season, but Naruto appears to have the mix of absolute and season numbering listed on all resources, including TVDB and relevant wiki. I guess I just did it that way to match all those sources.
All my other shows do restart at 1 for each season.
Where exacy exactly do you see that? I guess you just mixed it up somehow. Other resources might handle it differently, anime in general is not straight forward because they have their own way of doing things.
Truth is I’ve never looked at it so deeply because I’ve never had this problem before and this series (and other like it) have been in my system for years. Numbered exactly as they were without problem. It just presented recently - who knows why!
I’ll experiment with restarting the numbering at 1 each season and see what happens with the episode metadata. Some episodes have no descriptions at the moment and the numbering is probably why, but i’m not too bothered about that in any case.
EDIT: TVDB has no episode names etc for later seasons anyway so everything is as good as can be really - even with the absolute and season numbering together.
No worries, just wanted to point out what is really there
You always need to use the numbering of the agent that you use, no exceptions. So if you choose thetvdb, stick to the numbering as on their site.
If you like tmdb more in this case, fix match to the tmdb agent.
