I don’t disagree; and I don’t think I implied otherwise. I very much agree that the current behavior is undesirable. In spite of that, I always append the release year when adding media to my TV Shows library. My hope is that matching logic used for a Match or Fix Match, which uses the year as a hint, is someday (re-?)implemented for the initial scan as well. Until then I’m content to fix it manually, when the need arises.
You actually reiterated above a point I made last year when we were discussing this: The Plex DVR always includes the release year when it stores media. This implies at the very least that, while not documented as such, the release year should be appended to the show name. That means that if I record a complete series using the DVR and later choose to move it to relocate it to my permanent TV library, I’ll have to correct the naming which it (the DVR) applied if I want it to be matched automatically.
