Whether I use Fix Incorrect Match or just Match, it only returns Heartbeat 1988 but not the 2016 series.
Restarted Plex service, rebooted the server, same result.
What’s the file name look like?
I’ve noticed my folder names aren’t great for series that have the year in them, but a manual match usually works.
So here’s my pathing:
/TV/Heartbeat_20106/Season_1/S01E01.mkv
Your naming is not following the recommended format that is the cause of your issues.
Should be:
/TV /Heartbeat (2016)/ /Season 01/ /Heartbeat (2016) - S01E01.mkv
Though, if the folder is named correctly, S01E01.mkv will also work.
REF: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows
REF: http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=295644&lid=7
@pythonjosh said:
I’ve noticed my folder names aren’t great for series that have the year in them, but a manual match usually works.
So here’s my pathing:
/TV/Heartbeat_20106/Season_1/S01E01.mkv
As you say, you should still be able to match it manually. Sometimes the TVDB agent can be weird when it comes to finding things via search. Like if the title has weird symbols sometimes TVDB brings up unrelated series. In your case, maybe it’s the naming, maybe not (although you have misspelled “2016”), however what most often works for me in such situations is to search for the show ID.
To do this just go to tvdb.com, find your show and find it’s ID, and then search for the ID (only the ID) in the “title” field in Plex. It has never failed me. Try it, your shows ID is 295644.
Using the show ID for the win!
Yea I just typed the path, i knew it wasn’t important for manual matching.
I’m gonna remember this trick!
BTW Plex, please fix TheTVdb.com agent.
For my naming convention, I strip out all spaces and use underscores. The space is commonly used as an argument separator for command line/terminal coding and escaping or double quoting is ridiculous.
Whenever I add a new series that has a year in it, I always have to manually match, and I know this is why.
Thanks d2freak!
Paul and Orionshock, you were more focused on naming convention which is used for automatching rather than manual matching, when my post was stating that even manual matching wasn’t working. Manual matching can match apples to oranges, has nothing to do with what the folders are named at all.
@pythonjosh said:
For my naming convention, I strip out all spaces and use underscores. The space is commonly used as an argument separator for command line/terminal coding and escaping or double quoting is ridiculous.
Whenever I add a new series that has a year in it, I always have to manually match, and I know this is why.
Thanks d2freak!
If you have an aversion to spaces you should use a period instead of an underscore.
The scanner will work with that much better.
Paul and Orionshock, you were more focused on naming convention which is used for automatching rather than manual matching, when my post was stating that even manual matching wasn’t working. Manual matching can match apples to oranges, has nothing to do with what the folders are named at all.
Naming is used for both auto and manual matching…
If it is named properly or even close to properly you do not have to go and find the show ID to get it to match
@pythonjosh said:
Using the show ID for the win!
The space is commonly used as an argument separator for command line/terminal coding and escaping or double quoting is ridiculous.
Isn’t having to hit the SHIFT key + underscore the same number of key presses as hitting \ and then a space ?
Folder name is not used in manual matching, that is why it lets you enter what you want to search for, regardless of the folder name.
When I searching “Heartbeat” on TheTVdb.com, it returns all of them.
I have a lot of shows using this format without issues, besides the known automatch issue that manual match resolves.
@hthighway said:
@pythonjosh said:
Using the show ID for the win!
The space is commonly used as an argument separator for command line/terminal coding and escaping or double quoting is ridiculous.Isn’t having to hit the
SHIFT key + underscorethe same number of key presses as hitting\ and then a space?
I have a perl script that automatically moves the tv episodes to their folders when they finish downloading. And my TV library has over 1600 series, gotta have standards, and changing standards with this size is so arduous there must be a benefit to it.
