Star Trek Discovery Short Trek metadata issue

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I have them named according to theTVDB. There are two ‘seasons’ of these specials, and the first season of them show up in the specials folder with the proper titles and descriptions.
The second season, however, is only showing the episode number.

Star Trek Short Treks - S00E02 - episode name >> S00E11

S00E02-05 appear correctly. S00E06-S00E11 only show the episode number. Can anyone offer any help?

Thanks!

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“Star Trek Short Treks” is a tv show of its own.
Therefore the episodes you have are not in season 00.

https://www.thetvdb.com/series/star-trek-short-treks

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I saw that on theTVDB, but when I put them in as a separate show and named/numbered accordingly, it would not populate the data for ANY of the episodes. I had seen an old thread on here where people were saying it worked to put them all in as specials. That was the only way any of the titles showed up. You can see my confusion.

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If you look at the ‘Created’ and ‘Modified’ time stamps on TheTVDB website, you can see that this was freshly separated from the main Star Trek show.

You might have to wait a few days and/or perform the Plex Dance to get the updated data into your server.

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Ah, I did not see that! I did the plex dance to get them back in as specials, because when I tried to make them their own show Plex was convinced they were the main show (Discovery). It looks like I may have to just name them manually for now, and try to update in a few days. Thanks for pointing that out!

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So i have short treks in their own show and in the correct seasons. Sonarr has matched these with the TVDB but Plex refuses to match it at all. I have tried to match manually but it just shows no results.

Any ideas?!

Edit: I had to manually do a search and select The Movie Database. No matter what search time i tried with The TVDB it would not find “Short Treks”

This is a screenshot showing Plex not matching

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I too abandoned TVDB for TMDB for ST:D - as I’m doing more and more recently.

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But the odd thing is that TVDB works flawlessly within Sonarr, so it must be a Plex <> TVDB thing :frowning:

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I think Filebot does as well - the reason is those guys connect to TVDB Directly and Plex goes through the Plex TVDB Proxy (24-48 hour delay). <—had about enough of that as well.

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Yep. Can confirm no issue with Filebot finding Short Treks or Disco. So 100% Plex and their Proxy.

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Well, I doubt there’s anything we can do about it as the Proxy does seem to be a necessary evil, but it does need to be updated more often, IMO (like twice a day, at least).

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I’m asking about this specific show. Will report back when I know more.

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Most of the issue for me is Short Treks shouldn’t be a different show. They’re ‘teasers’, man. Little things that keep you interested and foaming at the mouth for the next season. They’re Specials.

TMDB has them set up like that ATM.
I hope they don’t get any ‘bright ideas’. <— 'cause there’s no arguing with either of them.

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When I hit the tvdb API, I can find the show and the episodes. “short treks” as search gives show with both season 1 (1-5) and 2 (6-11) with all the right info.

Oddly the word Discovery breaks search.

Interestingly “star trek discover short treks” returns:

{
  "Error": "Resource not found"
}

search term: “Star Trek Short Treks” returns:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "aliases": [
        "Short Treks"
      ],
      "banner": "/banners/62064567.jpg",
      "firstAired": "2018-10-4",
      "id": 376108,
      "image": "/banners/series/376108/posters/62060134.jpg",
      "network": "CBS All Access",
      "overview": "Star Trek: Short Treks are approximately 10-15 minute stand-alone short stories that allow fans to dive deeper into the key themes and characters that fit into the expanding Star Trek universe, including Discovery and Picard.",
      "poster": "/banners/series/376108/posters/62060134.jpg",
      "seriesName": "Star Trek: Short Treks",
      "slug": "star-trek-short-treks",
      "status": "Continuing"
    }
  ]
}

Using the show ID of 376108, I was able to drill down and get all the episodes with synopsis and images, etc. https://api.thetvdb.com/series/376108/episodes/query?airedSeason=2&airedEpisode=1 returned everything ever wanted to know about Q&A

I tried moving and renaming my MKVs to “short treks” and Plex still failed to find it: No matches for search. . Man I wish I knew what their query pattern was. I

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