Server Version#: 1.40.3.8555 Player Version#: 4.129.1 Not sure if this is a bug or not, however, it appears to have occurred on both of my Plex servers. I added a show that has 2 episodes per file. Normally these dual episode files would be recognized based on the required naming format that Plex …

I can recreate the issue. It seems to depend on which syntax of the two possible is used, so either the first or the second episode number is recognized. And only that single one. /TV Shows/ShowName/Season 02/ShowName – s02e17-e18 – Optional_Info.ext /TV Shows/ShowName/Season 02/ShowName –…

Strange. I’m on Ubuntu 22.04 (native package) with local files. Mine are also dummies. Oh well, it must have been a red herring. I’ll probably play around with it some more to see if I can figure out what’s causing it on my system. Thanks for checking @shark2k !

Side note… I removed some of the files for Season 1 and left only 6 files (12 episodes). ALL episodes now display correctly in Plex. [image] Adding 1 more file back into Plex and it broke again at Episode 13. [image] [image]

Did you grab the logs after this? I am really curious as to whether anything strange shows up in the logs to help indicate what is going on. I just went and added the rest of season 1 on my test server, adding 1 double episode file at a time and I was not able to get the issue to appear. My test …

I did some more testing. I had episodes E01 to E12 added to the folder and all 12 episodes showing in Plex. Adding a 7th file to S01 folder (E13E14). Only episode E14 displays. E13 shows as missing. And plex shows 13 episodes at the top of the list. I then make a small change to the file name for…

I’m having this issue and the Plex Dance did nothing, nor did moving into a fresh library. This has never happened before, so I feel like it’s got to be something regarding a recent update, right?

Howdy Otto… As specified in previous posts in this thread, I have done the full Plex Dance a number of times with the exact same results.

@shark2k FYI - I keep forgetting to mention. I don’t see anything in the plex server log. It shows the normal detection and that the file name was updated when I changed the file name and it redetected the file but drops episode 3 and leaves episode 4 as visible in Plex. Jun 16, 2024 22:19:15.869 …

Just want to mention that I have the same problem (random episode missing with multiple multi-episodes within a season) and the “random episode” which is missing is different with different orders of addition of multi-episodes. Naming convention has been respected. If somebody seriously wants to h…

[image] OttoKerner: It seems to depend on which syntax of the two possible is used, so either the first or the second episode number is recognized. And only that single one. It’s gets more complex if you add further multi-episode files to the same season :slight_smile:

Possible New Bug in file name detection?

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OttoKerner June 17, 2024, 5:30am 17

Have you ever tried the complete Plex dance as mentioned above?

There is still the option to split the video files and make one file for each listed episode.

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