Server Version#:1.19.4.2935 Player Version#:Any Server: Ubuntu Server 18.04 Long time PMS user, tired of TV series not matching or mismatching. Examples from just today: Folder name: Perry_Mason_2020 Mismatched to: Perry Mason (1934) Folder name: Lol_Australia Did not match to: LOL: Australi…

On the other hand, recent successful matches: Folder name: Impractical_Jokers_Dinner_Party Folder name: The_Politician Folder name: Amazing_Animal_Births

[image] pythonjosh: Folder name: Perry_Mason_2020 Plex is very picky with TV show naming and directory structure. Try using Plex naming and organization guidelines. See Your Media → TV Show Files (Naming and Organizing) . When renaming and reorganizing, Plex Dance the entire show. This wil…

Allowing spaces in file/folder names is not only bad practice, it makes writing code to accommodate for it quite difficult. In Linux based systems it is even more difficult. That’s just the OS’s option to allow it. Now onto Plex’s logic pertaining to spaces in folder names. Their code “requires” thi…

I posted successful matches for the purpose of showing that Plex does allow for filenames without spaces. This needs to be improved.

If I may? That’s why we have " and ' in Linux as well as \ “_” is not whitespace. That’s the problem here. I’ve been coding for a long time in shell scripting and programming. Spaces are something you get used to and becomes second nature.

[image] pythonjosh: And requiring a colon in the folder name as well? Just leave out any illegal/special characters. Use LOL Australia. [image] pythonjosh: I posted successful matches for the purpose of showing that Plex does allow for filenames without spaces. You got lucky. It wor…

Is anything other than “space” whitespace? I’ve been coding for 20 years as well. Allowing spaces in filenames is not optimal. Btw, I’ve been a Plex user for over 5 years, I’ve known of this limitation, and I post these to gripe about it until Plex allows for this. Hell I’d love to do it for them/u…

I can do you one better. :slight_smile: The entire matching system, as we have it now, is done in Python. That’s being replaced completely by C++. Python is terrible at tokenizing and string processing where C++ slices and dices with ease. I’ve tried the new scanner for movies. The test compa…

For the most part, no issues with movie matching. Also helps that I don’t know the website it scrapes from, whereas with TV I know TheTVDB.com I’m tempted to try out the new movie scanner.

Here is the thread: [image] New Plex Media Server movie scanner and agent preview Metadata & Adding Files What is it and what’s new? We’re working on some upgrades to our movie metadata infrastructure, and we’d like to give you a peek at what’s in store. The m…

TV Series matching mismatch

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files

ChuckPa June 22, 2020, 3:54am 11

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TV Series matching mismatch

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