The Bullwinkle and friends show Metadata from IMDB

[jra140]

Hi, I’m running plex server Version 1.94.1.155-f1e7f457 on Unubtu 22.04.4 LTS.
I’m trying to load The Bullwinkle and friends show and the episodes are not being named correctly.

The show has 5 segments per episode. On IMDB they are named correctly and grouped by episode. On TVDB, each segment is named as an entire episode, which is not right. My files are as whole episodes. I’m not going to spit the files up into segments.

Directory structure:

/PlexMedia/TV_Shows/The Bullwinkle Show (1959)/Season 01

File format:

.plexmatch
‘The Bullwinkle Show - s01e01 - Jet Fuel.mkv’
‘The Bullwinkle Show - s01e02 - Bullseye Bullwinkle.mkv’
‘The Bullwinkle Show - s01e03 - The Scrooched Moose.mkv’
“The Bullwinkle Show - s01e04 - Rocky’s Dilemma.mkv”
‘The Bullwinkle Show - s01e05 - The Bars and Stripes Forever.mkv’
‘The Bullwinkle Show - s01e06 - A Creep in the Deep.mkv’
‘The Bullwinkle Show - s01e07 - The Back-seat Divers.mkv’
‘The Bullwinkle Show - s01e08 - The Inspector-Detector.mkv’
‘The Bullwinkle Show - s01e09 - Two for the Ripsaw.mkv’

.plexmatch file:

$ more .plexmatch

imdbid: tt0052507
Title: The Bullwinkle Show
Year: 1959
Season: 1

I’ve renamed the show directory with the IMDB index and done the plexdance:

The Bullwinkle Show {imdb-tt0052507}

and nothing… It still forces the incorrect TVDB naming scheme.

Is there a method to put the metadata info for Title, Sort Title, and Summary for all the files for a Season into a text/json file and plex override the incorrect data?
I really don’t want to have to edit each and every episode in the GUI…

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeff

[DTR]

Adding the {imdb-tt123} identifier to the folder name/.plexmatch file doesn’t force Plex to use IMDb metadata, it’s just used to for the initial match to tell Plex what show it is. From there, episode ordering is determined by you library/show settings.

Plex also doesn’t support IMDb episode ordering, only TMDB’s default ordering and TVDB’s Aired, DVD, and Absolute ordering (set under Edit show > Advanced > Episode ordering. The library-wide default is under a similar path, Manage Library > Edit > Advanced > Episode ordering). Looking at those options, does TVDB’s DVD ordering match what you have: The Bullwinkle Show - - Season 1 - TheTVDB.com?