I took my Dragon Ball DVDs and ripped them to put it on my Plex. So far so good. All 153 episodes there. Made sure the naming is uniform - [DVD] Dragon Ball - Episodenumber
That number goes from 001 - 153. However somehow Plex only shows episodes 001-100.
I don’t understand. I re-scanned the folder twice, checked the Metadata. Still missing.
If I use Kodi, I can just watch all episodes normally.
There are no season folders. Just “Letter - Name of Series - Name of Series - Episodenumber.extension”
Any known way how to fix this? I have my Media Library in Folders alphabetically.
So do I have to completely remove the Folder “D”, remove all entries and then add it back in?
All my series have the same naming scheme, and this is the first one where I noticed this issue.
Any helpful advice is very appreciated.
Edit 01: Just checked another series. Same issue… kind of…
Does Plex not know how to count above 99? The episodes show up as 0-99 and then 0-99 again.
I checked Dragon Ball Z this time (276 episodes, it shows 191).
Ranma 1/2 - same thing. Shows 0-99 for a 150ish episode series.
Does Plex just not know how to handle triple digits?
I’ve double-checked all possible naming conventions.
Series Name - Episodenumber.mp4 is ok.
I mean… there is an option to disable seasons alltogether.
Though apparently this only goes for anything less than 99 episodes.
(I mainly used Kodi thus far cause I was not and still am not fully convinced of Plex’s capabilities.
It’s Kodi, just worse. But with the added benefit of transcoding and remote streaming.
I just felt it made sense to stick with one, not both.
Edit01: In case it comes up: I’ve set my folders to be local information only. And made sure that there is metadata and a poster in every single folder. But from what I can see, TVDB doesn’t have episode numbers in the metadata anyway. It’s just names in multiple languages, genres, rating and (voice)actors.
Absolute numbering needs to be on TheTVDB for this to work properly, but, you can go to the Show level, edit, then go to advanced, and choose Absolute Order instead of Airdate or DVD Order…
Then do a refresh Metadata. If Refresh Metadata doesn’t work, try the Plex Dance.
I don’t generally recommend this, as TVDB’s Absolute Ordering is spotty at best… However they almost always have the shows completed in Season/Episode format, so that’s the option I would recommend most people take…
I’ve never tried it in the “Show Name” root folder before, I’ve always had it inside of “Season 01” folder inside the Show Name folder, and it has worked… and it has worked for shows with more than 100 episodes… However, when I discovered it didn’t always work (because for shows like One Piece for instance) TVDB had stopped listing the Absolute Episode number, I went ahead and changed all of my anime over to S00EXX format. That has worked flawlessly for everything every time, so… Again, “Absolute Episode Numbering” is sort of use at your own risk.
It’s not even on the TV Naming conventions page to use Absolute Episode numbering heh.
So what you’re saying is, Plex is 100% reliant on TVDB and communicates with that site whether I want it to or not?
I guess I’ll go back to Kodi for most things then. Kodi has better performance, generally more stability and is more accepting with both naming files and using remotes.
I have a MCE Remote where half the functions don’t work with Plex.
As many smart designers and programmers have said before: Simple is best. Keep it simple, keep it clean. Definitely not bothering with renaming all my episodes on a season basis.
If you want it to scrape the metadata (Episode Title, Episode Description, Actors, etc), then yes, it’s reliant on TheTVDB. If you don’t care about the Metadata Scrape, then you have a couple of options. You can create an Anime Library which you will use exclusively for Anime, and you can go in and mess with the Agents for that Library. You could also use an Anime Agent that reaches out to AniDB or any of the other Anime Databases… Just do a google search for “Plex Anime Agent” and you should see quite a few pop up.
For me however, I merged my Anime in with regular TV Shows… and with 550 different shows in there (over 40,000 individual/unique episodes at this point) trying to mess around with managing different naming schemes became too much of a burden… Using FileBot to rename just became a much easier option since you can just set it to “Plex Naming convention” and then search using TheTVDB and call it a day…
A TV Show Library/
Dragon Ball (1986)/
...Season 01/
......Dragon Ball (1986) - S01E01 - Episode Name Optional.XXX
......Dragon Ball (1986) - S01E02.XXX
Even with pristine naming and structuring - like that above - it’s VERY likely Plex will never be able to get a match without ‘Fix Match’ due to their being so many Dragon Ball Shows - and Plex unable to decide what to do with a (YEAR) field - when the only thing it knows is to default to the latest version.
Also, if you’re using MP4/M4V files Plex will read and react badly to the bogus Embedded Title Fields you may have left in the files you ripped. If you EVER want to use MP4/M4V files - do this:
(Settings/Agents)
Under all tabs in Shows and Movies -
Red: where Local Media Assets was
Green: where it goes
Unless you rename and restructure your files according to the instructions it’ll never work. It may never work anyway without a ‘Fix Match’ - and in ANY case - if you ever want to use an MP4/M4V file The LMA Hack is a stark reality in the daily life of The Happy Plexer…
Since TheTVDB has their absolute order assigned to a single season (1), the “Season 01” folder and “S01” in the filename are important for it to match correctly as such. You may need to perform the “Plex Dance” during the renaming/structuring process, but you may not if PMS didn’t match it at all to begin with.
