I’m having trouble getting the PBS Baseball by Ken Burns series to be recognized. I’m using the same schema as all my other TV shows – and multiple PBS Specials Have been identified with no issues.
Any suggestions appreciated!
Is F:\Media\TV Shows\PBS added as a seperate folder location for the library?
Did ya see the screen shot? It’s in a separate folder /PBS/Baseball on the hard drive.
Same method I’ve used for all the PBS stuff…that are working fine.
So not sure what you are suggesting… Are you saying that each different physical folder also needs to be added to the Plex library? (I haven’t done that for anything else…other than at the top level).
Brian
I’m trying to just determine if the folder structure is correct.
If this is a separate library pointing to F:\Media\TV Shows\PBS then that’s good 
If this is PBS content is mixed with all the other TV, then the PBS folder must be added as a separate location (in Edit Library → Add Folders):
This cannot just point to F:\Media\TV Shows
If you have subfolders under TV Shows which aren’t the actual TV show (e.g. your PBS folder isn’t a show but a group of shows) then you need to add each of these invididually or just get rid of the PBS folder and move the show folders into the main TV shows library.
Ok. That’s interesting. Currently I do have it set up in Plex as F:\Media\TV Shows ONLY – and each TV show has a subfolder under that.
Up until now…Everything has been scanned and shown up just fine using this methodology…until this Baseball series.
Brian
The naming might be a little off depending on your matching source.
Try: Baseball - S00E01 - Inning 1
“A film by ken burns” is not part of the title for any of the matching agents nor is “inning” so having all that before the SxEx might be throwing it off.
When it’s movies you can kinda get away with “subfolders” for organizing but with TV Show it usually doesn’t like it (it might work but don’t rely on it).
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Yes, that folder structure is going to cause issues. Just get rid of the PBS folder in the middle and move those PBS shows into the main TV Shows folder.
In summary of what drzoidberg33 and Insomnic_1 have posted…
Here’s a full example that should be working.
As a side note: The episode names you’re giving don’t seem to belong to the Specials but the actual “main” season.
TV Shows <- the folder linked to your tv-show library
Baseball (1994) <- release year is optional but can help the Plex TV Series agent
Specials
Baseball (1994) - s00e01 - The Making of Baseball.ext
Baseball (1994) - s00e02 - Bob Costas on 1998 Season.ext
Baseball (1994) - s00e03.ext <- "episode title" is not required
...
Season 01
Baseball (1994) - s01e01 - First Inning - Our Game.ext
Baseball (1994) - s01e02 - Second Inning - Something Like a War.ext
Baseball (1994) - s01e03.ext <- again... episode title is not required
...
Baseball (1994) - s01e09 - Ninth Inning - Home.ext
Where .ext stands for the actual file extension of your files.
Including the episode title beyond the basic naming schema for episode files is purely optional but it can be helpful if you subsequently want to verify something about the files. The more stuff you include in the file names that doesn’t belong there, the bigger the risk something might throw the agent off from associating it correctly.
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Thanks for all the feedback – I just realized that the files ARE being detected (& had been in my original naming convention too) but are being mis-identified as Jazz - By Ken Burns for some reason. Not sure how to correct the mis-identification. I tried moving them into the root directory of /TV Shows too…and the same mis-identification occurs. Hmmm…
Here’s my current structure/naming schema:
That naming should work (though the folder might still cause issues) but it might be easiest to do a “plex dance” to have it re-identify the show.
You can also put the agent id reference in the show name like “Baseball (1994) {tmdb-19215}” to help force a match (depending on the agent\site you want to match - the naming article above has details for that). I’d try the Plex dance first.
Thanks Insomnic_1. I tried the Plex Dance – and now it’s been mis-identified with a different PBS show - In their Own Words. (which I did already have a few episode of) LOL.
Any suggestions on which would be the Best agent id reference to try? (I haven’t done anything with those before…)
Thanks!
It’s probably that PBS folder throwing it off actually… but the agent ID I gave above should be accurate for TheMovieDB. You can actually just pick whichever source\agent fits your needs most for your TV episode ordering - the Plex Agent uses all three to provide a “combined” metadata result but episode matching is up to the sources (TMDB and TVDB).
For example, my library is set to use TheMovieDB as my default for episode ordering:
But I have “The Librarian” 3 TV movies that I want in my TV Show library but TheMovieDB only lists them as separate movies so won’t match as TV Shows. So, I used “The Librarian {tvdb-83953}” to match to a specific listing at TheTVDB that had them as a 3 episode TV series.
And matched with this episode order setting for just this show:
I could have done that manually in Plex… unmatched the episodes and then did a rematch and change the episode ordering in the Advanced screen but changing the filename was easier (if a little less pretty).
It actually doesn’t matter which episode listing source you use as far as “best”, just which one has episode naming line up with your shows (in your case all 3 are the same I think). So you should be able to try the agent ID I put there (I pulled it from TMDB site) and see if it works for you.
At least… that’s how I’ve done it. I don’t always get a match sometimes… like the matching connection gets a hiccup, but I can usually hit “match” in Plex and it’s the first listing found.
Does that help?
Solved and working! Thanks for all the feedback – Much appreciated.
I moved the /Baseball folder and files to different drive, Cleaned Bundles, deleted trash and moved /Baseball back to the /TV Shows - but Not inside /PBS subfolder. Rescanned and BOOM! Good to go!
Cheers! (is it 5p anywhere and time for vino? lol)
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