As comparison, I just created a dummy series WandaVision. (7 seasons x 20 Ep)
I dropped in a dummy SRT file from a movie and renamed it.
It was picked up immediately & correctly.
drwxr-xr-x 9 chuck chuck 4096 Jan 18 10:27 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 3674 Jan 18 11:13 WandaVision - S01E01.eng.srt
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E01.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E02.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E03.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E04.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E05.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E06.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E07.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E08.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E09.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E10.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E11.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E12.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E13.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E14.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E15.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E16.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E17.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E18.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E19.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 1 chuck chuck 270 Jan 18 10:27 WandaVision - S01E20.mkv
[chuck@lizum Season 01.510]$
I understand , and agree, performing a PlexDance when a subtitle or other file is added isn’t the way to do things.
I will add one caution: When placing files in a monitored directory, there is a very limited time after the inotify event fires (file creation) until PMS starts scanning.
If the file is there, with the incorrect name, it will be fingerprinted incorrectly anyway because it has an extension PMS is sensitive to (SRT). PMS won’t look at that file again until all trace of it is removed from the DB (the Plex Dance).
Therefore, with the agent stacking now correct, I can only advise to name files correctly before moving into position so the scanner sees it correctly the first time.
I will add, based on what I’ve seen so far, the new TV scanner will fix a lot, if not all, of these edge cases
Between FileBot, Sonarr, etc, they all can make the naming correct before PMS sees the files. Might that be an option?
