Single tv episode refuses to show up in Plex library

[dopefish3d]

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I just ripped quite a bit of the old Looney Tunes show from some blurays, and the very first episode of the show (https://www.thetvdb.com/series/looney-tunes/seasons/official/1929) does not show up in my library, and i honestly have no idea why. All other episode show up just fine, and I don’t think i’ve ever had a file ever just not show up once it’s been scanned.

Is there someplace i should be looking in logs to see if it shows up there?

[JuiceWSA]

Show us your file names and structures.

At my house, that one and about 200 others are named like this:

J:\TV-Vintage\
........Looney Tunes\
.............Season 1929\
.................Looney Tunes - S1929E01 - Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid.mp4

Then this happened:

Same as when all these happened:

… and IF you’re using MP4/M4V files…:

Video File Naming

With LMA in priority, Embedded Titles within MP4/M4V files are preferred - even over a perfect file name. Local Media Assets should - AT ALL TIMES - remain enabled (unless specifically instructed to turn it off). Local Media Assets should be ‘Demoted’, to the bottom of the stack of active agents under ALL tabs in Shows and Movies, but should NOT be disabled. Local Media Assets is needed for many things - it doesn’t need to be given Tip-Top-Priority (as Plex has so hatefully placed it as it’s …

That would be about the only thing to stop proper file names and structures from doing the job…

[dopefish3d]

Folder Structure:

Plex Server:

the server shows more episodes than the folder structure image, as i have a 2nd file-server with files that weren’t ripped by myself and i keep them strictly segregated.

[JuiceWSA]

Naming and Organizing Your TV Show Files | Plex Support

Good luck.
Battle Plex over a file name and you’re gonna need it…

I don’t need luck - I use Filebot:
https://www.filebot.net/

[dopefish3d]

I also use filebot, and i’ve also used this naming convention since roughly before the dawn of time, and certainly since before plex defined it’s specific standard.

i know i’m out of spec officially here, however i’ve got more than 10,000 tv episodes that have scanned in perfectly fine like this, so… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[JuiceWSA]

Funny thing about Non-Compliance…
It may work, may work for a while, and may work right up until the day it stops working.

Compliant names and structures work the first day - and every day after that.

I linked the rules…
Disregard them at your own peril.

Also: (YEAR) is what Plex expects to find in there - not (Bluray).
Plex won’t even see [Bluray] - and if I have something that’s NOT supposed to be in a file name - it goes in [Brackets].

… and Filebot knows how to do that - if you show it how:

[dopefish3d]

for Movies, (Year) should absolutely be present at the individual file level (as all of my movies are named), but for an individual episode of a tv show, that wouldn’t make any sense at all.

(Bluray) is for my own use. All my ripped files contain a (MediaType) tag at the very end for tracking where it came from. Plex has never had any issue with this.