Seinfeld Episodes not being displayed / tagged correctly

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Not quite sure what to upload for anyone to take a look, but here it goes:
Just finished ripping all 9 seasons of Seinfeld for PMS.
All episodes are named correctly. (TV Shows\Seinfeld\Season 08\Seinfeld S08E13 - The Money.mp4 )
The TVDB is the first one listed in agents…etc.
About 20% of the episodes are being identified incorrectly. For the example file above, the name of the file is correct, but PMS shows it as E13 - The Comeback. Basically, Those two are swapped…
Other seasons are the same, with PMS showing E04 pointing to the E06 file, etc…

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

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Hello, Plex uses The TVDB.com for TV Shows. Maybe the episode order is incorrect on that site?

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Possibly. But for 20+ episodes?

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Just checked other online databases. s08e13 is listed as the comeback, so maybe your naming that is off.

However, I just found an online source for that episode. It is listed as “Seinfeld 8x13” The Comeback, but the episode that plays is “The Money”

Maybe the episode listing on the DVD’s is off? Plex doesn’t use the episode name extension, but…

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this is frustrating.
I have noticed that with each season, there are fewer mismatches.
right from the start, season 1, episode 2: on the DVD it’s listed as episode 2 - Male Unbonding. plex decides that episode 2 is “The Stakeout” instead.
E03 and 04 are also wrong doing a quick look. There are many others.
I find it hard to believe that the TVDB is wrong for this many episodes…
Perhaps there is a different list between production date, release date, episode number, series number, etc that is getting mixed up somewhere along the line?
FWIW, this is the only TV series I’m having problems with. *Prison break, Tilt, 24, Land Of The Lost, The Following, Game Of Thrones… All match perfectly…

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Hmmm. Production code seems to be what the TVDB uses,

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I only have the first four seasons of Seinfeld - ripped from the DVD’s and named according to them. I just played s01e02 - The Stakeout and ended up watching “Male-Unbonding”. I hadn’t checked this before.

I do know when I ripped “Gilligan’s Island” boxed set, the episode list was completely wrong and I had to watch a bit of each one to get them named properly.

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Naming them properly isn’t actually the issue. As you see, they are named properly. Just trying how to “trick” plex into putting them in the correct places.

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No, they are not tagged correctly. Seinfeld S08E13 - The Money should be The Comeback. Also, at this point, the only way to be sure what episode is what, is by watching.

I have already fixed on my end. Watched a bit of each episode and tagged it properly, then ran through The Renamer to ensure proper naming syntax with episode name added.

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I know this is a late reply but I stopped naming my episodes with the “text name of the episode” in the file name at all, on all my TV Series for Plex - ON MY PC.

I stopped having problems with order and episode mix ups, unless there is an issue with a episode mix-up on the DVD you are ripping, itself, of course. (incorrectly named or numbered series episodes on your DVD or wrong on IMDB.com website in my case, etc.).

Meaning, instead of naming the file on my Plex server in this manner of the Walking Dead Series:
s06e13 - The.Same.Boat.mp4

I just renamed all the files like this:
s06e13.mp4 <–Just the Season, Episode and file type.

When Plex scrapes, the Plex engine names the episode as it appears on the IMDB website, and the episode name and description appear in Plex on my devices, correctly, pretty much every time.

I have stopped having any issues with “naming problems” since I started “keeping it simple” with the file names of my movies and TV series files in Plex,

–> ON MY PC, in the Plex Movie and TV Series Archives <-- I just want to make sure I am clear here, lol

When Plex parses the PC Plex Archives it pulls the names and series episode descriptions off the IMDB website, it is Plex which grabs the extra data, episode descriptions, pictures etc and adds all related series episode NAME and number with the description. perfectly in Plex without complicated names and descriptions,

Yes, while looking for a particular episode from your PC WITH File Explorer or whatever file management tool you use, you’ll only see the short name in the file listings as in The Walking Dead Series on my server I use:

s06e13,mp4
NOT,
s06e13 - The.Same.Boat.mp4
or
TWD.s06e13 - The Same Boat.mp4
or whatever “Plex file naming format” you decide to use.

Keep it as simple as possible: s06e13,mp4

I hope I explained myself correctly? I’m new to Plex and for the gurus, it is probably common knowledge. However for me. These are the techniques which have worked for me, better than the more detailed and complicated naming structures. All I am trying to say is let Plex do the TEXT naming of your files.

Keep your movie and series episode names as simple as possible:
s01e01.mp4 or s06e16.mp4 and Plex will add all the pertinent info in the browser automatically.

Movies are similar but I do add the Movie Titles in the file name as:
Justice_League.720p.mp4 (could use a . instead of a _ in every fie as well I believe?)
Please correct me if I am mistaken or totally incorrect however!
As I said, I am a relative newb using Plex, So please be gentle!

I just hope this helps someone else.

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The TVdb shows the episodes in the order they were aired on TV. The DVD’s have them in a different order, thus the difference. I had to translate mine as I ripped them.

For example S3E4 on the DVD is S3E6 in the TVdb (not real example). There were even some that were in one season on the DVD but aired during another season, so I had to map those, too.

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This is the correct answer. I have DVD Rips and I had to go to the TVdb website and go through season by season and rename (and re-number!) my episodes for each season in the schema of s01e01, and for 2 part episodes (which are one file) I used s01e01e02. As others mentioned 1 or 2 episodes are even in a different season on TVdb than the DVD release.

One last note, I kept unmatching and re-adding the match in Plex and it wouldn’t work. I ended up copying my whole Seinfeld folder to a non-plex-indexed area, and making all my changes. Then in Plex I entirely deleted Seinfeld and all it’s files.
Then I dragged in my new Seinfeld folder with the correct files and re-scanned my TV library, and it found everything correctly and tagged them right this time.
Took and hour or two all in all, but now I can finally watch my DVD aspect episodes, without commercials too!