Popeye the Sailor (1933) Metadata

TVDB likes to rename series for the fun of it and I run into issues every time I have a hard drive issue and have to load files from a backup and rescan. The 1960 and 1961 episodes used to be part of Popeye (1933) but now they’ve been split off and are in Popeye the Sailor (1960) while Popeye (1933) has been renamed just Popeye the Sailor.

I split them into two different folders, Popeye the Sailor (1933) and Popeye the Sailor (1960), and no matter what I do it only matches with Popeye the Sailor, combines them both into the same show, and fills in the metadata for every season except 1960 and 1961.

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In the main show folders for each try

Popeye the Sailor (1933) {tvdb-78435}

Popeye the Sailor (1960) {tvdb-41672}

You may have to Plex Dance both

Edit: nvm, i see it now. Even with the 1933 version show id on TVDB Plex is pulling the the 1960 version

I’ve done fix match with both ids and it always says 1960 but has the picture from the 1933 one and doesn’t have (1960) in parentheses next to Popeye the Sailor. It only pulls in metadata for every season before 1960.

I think it’s matching with the 1933 version since that’s where it’s getting the metadata from even though it says 1960 over the picture.

There was a thread back in April and it seems the issue never got fixed so I’m trying again.

They changed all of the 30s and 40s shorts into 5 and 6 hour long movies instead of a TV show at the TMDB

Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938 - Volume One (2007)

Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940 - Volume Two (2008)

Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 1 (2018)

Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s, Volume 2 (2019)

because of this it seems like the order at TVDB no longer works either

Something’s definitely messed up. The funny thing is that it’s labeling all my 30s, 40s, and 50s episodes correctly. Just not the 60’s ones.

The easiest solution I see is for TVDB to get rid of Popeye the Sailor (1960) and add the 1960 and 1961 seasons into the main Popeye the Sailor.

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I figured out if I change the episode ordering and naming for the 1960s seasons to TMDB or default, then it will fill in the info for the 1960 and 1961 seasons but not anything from the 30’s - 50’s. If I change episode ordering to TVDB, then the the 30’s - 50’s get filled in, but not 60 and 61.

I wish I could get it to not combine these. For now, I will have to let it fill in the 60’s info using TMDB, lock everything on every individual episode so it keeps it, and then switch to TVDB episode ordering so I can have the other twenty plus seasons named correctly.

I’m not sure why TMDB is the default when TVDB has a lot more series set up correctly.

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I don’t know if something got fixed behind the scenes with the database or if I missed it before, but I was able to click the three dots and choose split apart. Now that I’m able to leave them split Popeye the Sailor names correctly if I change the episode ordering to TheTVDB (Aired) and Popeye the Sailor (1960) names correctly when episode ordering is set to library default.

Plex fixed it a few days ago.

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