I have the episodes correctly named, i.e. “TV Shows\The Crystal Maze (2017)\The Crystal Maze (2017) - SxxExx - Episode Title” - but every week, it matches to the original 1990 series, not the new 2017 series. Every time, when I do a Fix Match, it comes up with “The Crystal Maze (2017)” as the top match - so why isn’t it automatically matching to that one?
That may be one of the unexplained mis-matches that are occasionally reported in this thread.:
I would try renaming the folder and files to just “The Crystal Maze” leaving out the year despite the fact that it is going against the naming method we all know we are supposed to use. You will likely have better results if you “Plex Dance” the whole series to avoid future mismatches happening again.
the Plex dance: https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/277433/the-plex-dance#latest
@olliebean said:
I have the episodes correctly named, i.e. “TV Shows\The Crystal Maze (2017)\The Crystal Maze (2017) - SxxExx - Episode Title” - but every week, it matches to the original 1990 series, not the new 2017 series.
I don’t understand this. Is the series matched already? Manual matched or otherwise? I have never seen a case where PLEX was loading metadata from another series on an existing matched series.
I delete each episode after watching it, as I have no intention of rewatching these; also, I have Plex set up to automatically empty trash after scanning, so I guess this means it is no longer an existing matched series by the time the next episode rolls around.
However, after experimenting it does seem that if I keep a dummy episode (i.e. a small video file named as S00E00 of this series) in the library to prevent the series being thrown out when emptying trash, new episodes are recognised as being part of the same series and matched correctly. So this is a workaround, at least.
Ohhh… I see now… You do have an interesting dilemma indeed. Clever workaround though.
@olliebean said:
I delete each episode after watching it, as I have no intention of rewatching these; also, I have Plex set up to automatically empty trash after scanning, so I guess this means it is no longer an existing matched series by the time the next episode rolls around.However, after experimenting it does seem that if I keep a dummy episode (i.e. a small video file named as S00E00 of this series) in the library to prevent the series being thrown out when emptying trash, new episodes are recognised as being part of the same series and matched correctly. So this is a workaround, at least.
Plex has a habit of displaying the original program/ Series commence year as in IMDb, “Hawaii five-0”, Criminal minds for example is the same. It will not update the year to the current series year.
@SE56 said:
Plex has a habit of displaying the original program/ Series commence year as in IMDb, “Hawaii five-0”, Criminal minds for example is the same. It will not update the year to the current series year.
Not even if the filename includes the current series year in brackets after the title? Surely Plex ought to be recognising that and matching the series accordingly. I’m sure it does so successfully with other series I watch that share a title with a previous series.
@olliebean said:
@SE56 said:
Plex has a habit of displaying the original program/ Series commence year as in IMDb, “Hawaii five-0”, Criminal minds for example is the same. It will not update the year to the current series year.Not even if the filename includes the current series year in brackets after the title? Surely Plex ought to be recognising that and matching the series accordingly. I’m sure it does so successfully with other series I watch that share a title with a previous series.
Apparently not, it always shows first airing date.
