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I’m running into a counter-intuitive issue with TV Show name detection. I have the following structure:
TV Shows
TV Shows\Show 1\Season 1…
TV Shows\Show 2\Season 1…
TV Shows\Anime\Show 1\Season 1…
TV Shows\Anime\Show 2\Season 1…
TV Shows\Documentaries\Show 1\Season 1…
TV Shows\Documentaries\Show 2\Season 1…
File names are Show Name - s01e01.mkv, etc.
In other words, to cut down on overload at the root directory, I have some (but not all) shows grouped into sub-categories, but other than an extra directory level, following the exact group structure as recommended (I think?).
The issue is, for some reason Plex wants “Anime” or “Documentaries” to be one show with everything under it all grouped together, even though doing so would completely deviate from the naming guidelines and leads to unmatched nonsense metadata.
I know matching can be complicated, but this seems counter-intuitive to me, particularly because I believe I’m following the recommended naming conventions for everything else down to the file names. So if the file name indicates the show name, season, and episode number, and its parent folder matches the season name, and it’s parent folder matches the show name… I’m not sure what could possibly be signaling Plex to ignore all that matching data and instead decide “Anime” is the show name.
Wouldn’t it want to start at the file and step out two levels to Season and Show, since that’s the recommended structure? Why would it go farther than that and seemingly ignore its own guidelines, only to fail to match cleanly?
I realize one workaround is probably to add every subfolder directly to the Library (in place of the root), but the overhead of that doesn’t feel ideal, and it adds complexity since presumably nothing an be in the top level at that point.
