I have a mini-series which I have confirmed is not found by thetvd (or any other agents), which is fine. As a result this does not display any entry for this show while ‘TvShows’ view is selected. This however is not fine. I can only see this if i have ‘folders’ view selected, which is decidedly uninteresting.
My question: Since we can create local assets, is there a way that I can simply display this show in my TV Show Library with my own prescribed assets, when it falls outside of the scanner databases?
I do something similar on my Plex Server and I have it configured very similar to other TV series and I took a tvshow.nfo file from another TV series and manually edited it in notepad with the credentials I thought went with the show I was trying to manually maintain.
I can’t even get the show to appear unless i use ‘folder view’. Will that make it magically appear? Mine aren’t generating tvshow.nfo’s anywhere that I have located?
There seems to be some confusion…
If the agent cannot find information about your show, Plex will still show the show / episodes – just without added metadata.
If a show isn’t displayed at all, this is usually an issue with the scanner – the most common issue will be bad file names where Plex cannot identify your episodes as tv-show based content (e.g. no sXXeYY pattern to identify season/episode numbers).
Your last post implies the issue at hand might however be a different one.
If you see items while accessing the library in folder mode, this means there’s no issue with the scanner blocking Plex from adding the file. It appears your files might have been mismatched and identified as another show.
As for your actual question… Plex will only read local metadata from certain file types (e.g. mp4, m4v or mov containers – but not from mkv or others). You can use a tag editor to edit the embedded metadata and configure Plex to prefer that embedded information.
There are some 3rd party agents which can be used to support some of the legacy agents – those will not work with the current generation Plex Movie or Plex TV Series agents. IIRC one of those can also read local nfo files (as mentioned in a post above) – however I don’t have a link to that one.
PS: are you sure the show isn’t on The Movie Database or TheTVDb?
No the issue is not with the naming. It simply is not represented in the TheTVDb which isn’t really my focus since this is a one off show. I embedded some metadata in the MKV but it isn’t showing it in thumnail view persay.
I’m not sure if there is a generic way to make a file appear that isn’t in a database.
No, it’s not finding it naming it with proper naming conventions. I’m wondering if I make up a name that does exist and then see if i can manually edit it if it will work.
I wasn’t explaining it in vast detail as my base question didn’t require it, however I take by the answers that it’s not an option to manually make something appear.
So in interest of verbosity:
My [TV Show] library has Scanner and Agent set to Plex TV Series.
I have tried all of the naming conventions of ‘Spartacus.Gods.of.the.Arena’ isn’t detecting the series name. The IMDB link I found manually so i presume Plex is not actually searching the correct database? /tt1758429/
It is a stand alone mini-series, and doesn’t align with the actual 2010 tv series data so i’m treating it as it’s own folder.
I’ve changed the scanner to the 2 option available
I’ve changed the agent to each of the 4 options availble
Okay. So don’t name it as per IMDB. Name it to match the main show Spartacus and name the episodes S00Exx and it should pick them up. You can use tmdb id or tvdb id to search.
The new agent is a consolidation of metadata from multiple sources. The searching ids is just used for matching so you never just getting imdb, tmdb or tvdb anymore.
