Stranger Things Season 2

General Discussions
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@WayneBilger said:
This didn’t work, sorry. I have many episodes with that same format (no spaces around the dash), Season 1 is like that.

You can play this game with Plex - or you can submit to it’s will.
The ‘funny’ (not ha, ha funny) thing about non-compliance is it may work sometimes - right up until the time it doesn’t work.
Compliance works today, tomorrow and always:
Here are the rules - the choice to follow them or not is totally up to you:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows

The name is from thetvdb, which Sonarr uses, the second dash in the episode name, is just the replacement for “:” (not allowed in windows).

You should ‘remove’ special characters - not ‘replace’ them with something else. Filebot does this to perfection - as shown in the image of a perfectly working Show Structure above (with caveats)

I tried the plex dance again, and have even tried removing the “Episode One-” part as you suggested, same thing.
Plex still finds no episode description, and Plex labels the episodes as Episode Nine, Episode Ten… etc.
I don’t understand how this is, as thetvdb is not named like that, unless it was, and there is some caching going on.

(the caveat - a big one) As mentioned, TVDB has the right info now - The Plex Proxy (the thing that holds the TVDB info you actually get) lags days/weeks/months behind - because they simply don’t update it often enough.
https://www.thetvdb.com/?tab=season&seriesid=305288&seasonid=679296&lid=7
It you follow that link and look, it should be fairly apparent TVDB (the real one) has the correct info. If you rename/restructure correctly and Plex Dance Properly you’ll also note Plex’s TVDB Proxy has not yet updated to the correct info.

I forgot this important step to counteract the bundle bug that has plagued Plex since it became Plex and it’s important to do all the steps, in order, as written, or it simply doesn’t work:

The Plex Dance®:

  1. remove show/movie from library - all of it
  2. rescan library files
  3. empty trash
  4. clean bundles
    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles
  5. bring names and structures into compliance/Move LMA/etc
  6. replace corrected show/movie into library
  7. rescan library files

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.