# Problems with "Plex Series Scanner","Personal media shows"

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/problems-with-plex-series-scanner-personal-media-shows/8008>\
**Category:** Dev/API Corner\
**Tags:** scanner-agent-dev\
**Created:** [February 24, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/problems-with-plex-series-scanner-personal-media-shows/8008 "2011-02-24T19:19:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Alberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecd19e/32.png) [@David\_Alberg](https://forums.plex.tv/u/David_Alberg)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/problems-with-plex-series-scanner-personal-media-shows/8008/1 "2011-02-24T19:19:11Z")

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Hi there,  
  
  
  
I really love Plex but I am having a few issues with the “Plex Series Scanner” in combination with the “Personal Media Shows” metadata agent. Apparently it will only include files which have a number or date in their name.   
  
  
  
For example I have a lot of recorded childrens TV shows in the iTunes/TV Shows folder  
  
  
  
The structure of the files is:  
  
iTunes/TV Shows/Show name/Episode\_description.m4v  
  
iTunes/TV Shows/Show name/Episode\_description.m4v  
  
…  
  
  
  
I have added the iTunes/TV Shows folder as a section in plex and selected “Plex Series Scanner” and “Personal Media Shows” as well as language none (see attached screen shot).  
  
 ![post-38166-0-73376900-1298575183.png](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/c/0/c0f0edfe6a205e8b837c3aa02cc815b93af44ba5.png)  
  
  
  
Only files which include a number or date is added to the section. Even if I rename the files to 01EPisode\_description.m4v, 02Episode\_description.m4v (which is not very practical) and son on, the files are added without title.  
  
  
  
E.g. iTunes/TV Shows/Show name/Barbapapa/01Barbapapa - Barbababyer.m4v becomes Episode 1 in Season 1 with the name “Episode 1:”. The title Barbababyer is not included in the Episode name, even though it is both in the filename and in the metadata of the file.  
  
  
  
So basically. Does a scanner exist which either

1. Uses the itunes metadata from the m4v file OR  
2. Simply uses foldernames as series names and filenames as episode names  
  
  
  
I hope someone is able to help 🙂

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**Author:** ![baa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/baa/32/2026_2.png) [@baa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/baa)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/problems-with-plex-series-scanner-personal-media-shows/8008/2 "2011-12-24T13:16:10Z")

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Quite old message… but still interesting.  
  
Any answer on this sort of scanner?  
  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/problems-with-plex-series-scanner-personal-media-shows/8008/3 "2019-12-20T21:00:56Z")

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