Problem with Magnum P.I. 1980 and 2019

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Good evening,

First off I want to thanks everyone for their help in advance. I am currently running my Plex Server off of UNRAID and I am loving it. The issue I am having is I have Magnum, P.I from 1980 and the new 2018 Magnum P.I., I have used Windows Media Center Masters to create the metadata for both series and some how Plex has joined them into one file under the 1980’s Magnum, P.I.

Here is the tvshow.nfo for both:

Magnum P.I. (2018)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> Magnum P.I. (2018) 5.6 2018 Thomas Magnum, a decorated former Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator in Hawaii taking jobs no one else will with the help of fellow vets T.C. Calvin and Rick Wright, and the former MI:6 agent Higgins. 45 TV-14 350068 Action Adventure Comedy Drama 2018-09-24 Continuing CBS Amy Hill Perdita Weeks Jay Hernandez Tim Kang Zachary Knighton Stephen Hill

Magnum, P.I

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> Magnum, P.I 8.1 1980 Former Naval Intelligence officer Thomas Magnum resigns his commission to become a private investigator on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. He lands a home in the guest house on the estate of millionaire author Robin Masters in exchange for testing the estate's security, but is forced to work under the strict and ever watchful eye of Jonathan Higgins, a former British Army soldier who serves as the estate manager, and constantly patrols the grounds with his two lads Zeus and Apollo, who are loyally trained Doberman Pinschers always ready to pounce on Magnum. Magnum makes good use of the perks that come with working on the estate, including driving Masters' sporty red 308 GTS Ferrari, Audi, and all-terrain Jimmy, as well as equipment such as high-end cameras and telescopes. 45 TV-PG 74380 Action Adventure Drama 1980-12-11 Ended CBS Tom Selleck John Hillerman Larry Manetti Roger E. Mosley Kathleen Lloyd Jeff MacKay Kwan Hi Lim Gillian Dobb

I’ve also checked all the other metadata such as the series.xml and mcm_id__E6CFFBA1DD70143CF6A4AD06EEF9626662647800.dvdid.xml for the 1980’s Magnum and series.xml and mcm_id__87D385F6C1B9591903F8509A02B8B9BCFB484087.dvdid.xml for the 2018 Magnum.

2018 Magnum

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> Magnum P.I. (2018) mcm_id__87D385F6C1B9591903F8509A02B8B9BCFB484087

and

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 350068 350068 Friday 9:00 PM Amy Hill|Perdita Weeks|Jay Hernandez|Tim Kang|Zachary Knighton|Stephen Hill TV-14 2018-09-24 Action|Adventure|Comedy|Drama tt7942796 tt7942796 tt7942796 Thomas Magnum, a decorated former Navy SEAL who, upon returning home from Afghanistan, repurposes his military skills to become a private investigator in Hawaii taking jobs no one else will with the help of fellow vets T.C. Calvin and Rick Wright, and the former MI:6 agent Higgins. CBS 5.6 45 Magnum P.I. (2018) Magnum P.I. (2018) Continuing 12/17/2019 1:41:32 PM

1980’s Magnum

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> Magnum, P.I mcm_id__E6CFFBA1DD70143CF6A4AD06EEF9626662647800

and

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 74380 74380 Saturday 12:30 PM |Tom Selleck|John Hillerman|Larry Manetti|Roger E. Mosley|Kathleen Lloyd|Jeff MacKay|Kwan Hi Lim|Gillian Dobb| TV-PG 1980-12-11 |Action|Adventure|Drama| tt0080240 tt0080240 tt0080240 Former Naval Intelligence officer Thomas Magnum resigns his commission to become a private investigator on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. He lands a home in the guest house on the estate of millionaire author Robin Masters in exchange for testing the estate's security, but is forced to work under the strict and ever watchful eye of Jonathan Higgins, a former British Army soldier who serves as the estate manager, and constantly patrols the grounds with his two lads Zeus and Apollo, who are loyally trained Doberman Pinschers always ready to pounce on Magnum. Magnum makes good use of the perks that come with working on the estate, including driving Masters' sporty red 308 GTS Ferrari, Audi, and all-terrain Jimmy, as well as equipment such as high-end cameras and telescopes. CBS 8.1 45 Magnum, P.I Magnum, P.I Ended 8/30/2018 1:43:16 PM 1988-05-01

Am I missing a type of metadata file for better accuracy?

Thanks again

Adding the year to the folder and file names helps Plex match the shows when there are multiple versions/reboots of a TV show or movie.

See Naming & Organizing your TV Shows.

When I initially added the shows, Plex combined them into one show (1980), even with the year in the folder/file name (so much for the first line of my response :laughing:).

On the main Library page, I told it to split the show (hover over show icon, right click on vertical ellipsis in lower right corner of show icon, choose split).

I then performed a Fix Match for each to pull in the correct metadata.

The Fix Match did not initially return information for the 2018 version. I clicked on Search Options and removed the year. It then listed both shows, and I could pick the 2018 version (could probably have entered “2018” into the year as well).

Folder/file structure:

/TV Shows
  /Magnum P.I. (1980)
    /Season 01
      /Magnum P.I. (1980) - s01e01.mkv
      /Magnum P.I. (1980) - s01e02.mkv
  /Magnum P.I. (2018)
    /Season 01
      /Magnum P.I. (2018) - s01e01.mkv
      /Magnum P.I. (2018) - s01e02.mkv

Edit / FYI:
In TheTVDB listings, there is a subtle difference in the show names. The 1980 version is listed as Magnum, P.I. and the 2018 version is listed as Magnum P.I. (note the comma in the 1980 version). I tried adding the comma to the folder & file names of the 1980 show. It didn’t make a difference. Plex still combined the shows when initially loading them into PMS.

Thank you so much, I did not know about the split button. you have saved me a ton of headache. I tried so many different things to get the Magnums in the right order. Everything up to Magnum P.I. and Magnum, P.I has been a breeze, but this one had me stumped.

I recommend moving both out completely, scanning files, empty trash, and clean bundles.

As the next step, if MP4 files, verify there is no embedded metadata which is ambiguous.

As demonstration, I created test MKV files and matching was correct.

[chuck@lizum mmg.86]$ ls -la /vie/qa/tv/Magnum*
/vie/qa/tv/Magnum, P.I. (1980):
total 64
drwxr-xr-x.   6 chuck chuck  4096 Jan  5 23:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x. 901 chuck chuck 45056 Jan  5 23:53 ../
drwxr-xr-x.   2 chuck chuck  4096 Jan  5 23:51 Season 01/
drwxr-xr-x.   2 chuck chuck  4096 Jan  5 23:51 Season 02/
drwxr-xr-x.   2 chuck chuck  4096 Jan  5 23:51 Season 03/
drwxr-xr-x.   2 chuck chuck  4096 Jan  5 23:51 Season 04/

/vie/qa/tv/Magnum P.I. (2018):
total 64
drwxr-xr-x.   6 chuck chuck  4096 Jan  5 23:46 ./
drwxr-xr-x. 901 chuck chuck 45056 Jan  5 23:53 ../
drwxr-xr-x.   2 chuck chuck  4096 Jan  5 23:46 Season 01/
drwxr-xr-x.   2 chuck chuck  4096 Jan  5 23:46 Season 02/
drwxr-xr-x.   2 chuck chuck  4096 Jan  5 23:46 Season 03/
drwxr-xr-x.   2 chuck chuck  4096 Jan  5 23:46 Season 04/
[chuck@lizum mmg.87]$ ls -la /vie/qa/tv/Magnum*/*01/*S01E01*
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck chuck 286 Jan  5 23:51 /vie/qa/tv/Magnum, P.I. (1980)/Season 01/Magnum, P.I. (1980) - S01E01.mkv
-rw-r--r--. 1 chuck chuck 284 Jan  5 23:46 /vie/qa/tv/Magnum P.I. (2018)/Season 01/Magnum P.I. (2018) - S01E01.mkv
[chuck@lizum mmg.88]$ 

Screenshot from 2020-01-06 00-31-42

Did your new Magnum P.I. play the theme song?
Because mine doesn’t, and I have checked my naming scheme a few times along with pressing the fix match button

  1. Playing theme music while matching is OFF TOPIC
  2. Fix Match is not needed when media is properly named from the beginning.
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I have the theme music turned off so, I have not noticed if it did or didn’t.

Other then that once I spit them all the naming data came back so it’s been working well. I did have to change a couple of season folder pictures to the right ones but it works wonderfully.

Thank you all for your help!

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