My TV show I have on plex will only grab the meta data from Season 1. All other seasons have no name nor “poster”. I have named the files as such…
Dragon Ball Z - s01e01-e10
This is not the recommended naming format - or at least you are not showing enough. See https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220687-naming-series-season-based-tv-shows/
Path/TV Shows/Dragonball Z/Season 01/Dragonball Z - s01e02 - optional info.ext
Path/TV Shows/Dragonball Z/Season 02/Dragonball Z - s02e10 - optional info.ext
The library targets Path/TV Shows not lower or higher.
Correctly naming each episode and having the folders for season and show correct will prevent 99% of your metadata problems on TV Shows
The problem is that these are large files with from each disk which contains between 8 and 10 episodes per file. Its on the plex server like this…
TV shows/Dragon Ball Z/Season 1/Dragon Ball Z - s5e149-e157(mkv)
I was certain that Plex’s proper paths and file names for multi episode files was this way.
I dunno if that is a real example or not but you have it in a Season 01 folder but the file says season 5.
Oh no that is not how i actually have it lol.
These are the full quality rips from the remastered bluray collection. Each file size is about 40GB.
Your naming should be fine. but can you provide an actual filename with path
There is no episode 149 in season 5 for example which might be confusing things. that example is using absolute episode numbering with seasons. need to use either or.
Also how exactly are your agents set up for tv?
that should not matter
Here is a copy and paste file path.
/volume1/TV Shows/Dragon Ball Z/Season 2/Dragon Ball Z - s02e40-e49.mkv
Interesting, I went to TVDB and they list the episodes differently. I guess I will have to rename the files to fit into their incorrect data base lol
A tip: if you are using a different ripping software, you should be able to get proper single files per episode.
This approach with several episodes per file is quite unsatisfactory.
If your files are in the MKV format, they could already have chapter markers, which designate the start time of the episodes.
You can use these to split the files: [HowTo]: splitting multi-episode files with MKVtoolnix GUI
The issue was that TVDB does not list the episode names properly. Once season 2 starts I starts back at episode 1 2 ect. So I renamed the files accordingly and it fixed the issue immediately. Big thanks to BigWheel for suggesting that the episodes might need to be listed differently. Everything is perfect now. I’m a huge PLEX fan BTW. The only feature I want on my Synology NAS now is the ability to Transcode 4k content to my 1080P TV in a different room and it be able to fix the color mapping. I hear that this feature is currently only available on the desktop version of PMS. Having to rip 2 copies of every movie is taking a not previously calculated toll on my storage space. (I only have 12TB to work with at the moment).
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