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I am running a PMS on a Debian 10 server. I am using rclone to pull in my library from Google Drive. When I create the TV Shows section in Plex, I only get 89 shows. When I create it in Emby I get the full 156 shows. So I assume rclone is pulling this in correctly, but maybe Plex isn’t seeing everything? Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!
This is usually due to some kind of unsupported file naming conventions. Improperly labeled shows or folders.
I never used Emby but given your example I am thinking that Emby might use a slightly different or more forgiving file structure.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/
I’ve tried Emby. They use the same , standard, naming as Plex.
JaysPlex7… Thank you for responding, I appreciate any and all possible ideas on what the issue is and any solutions anyone can think of… I do not think this is a naming convention issue. I am pretty diligent about my folder structures and naming conventions. An example is for the TV Series Young Sheldon, my naming convention is:
My Drive > Media > TV Shows > Young Sheldon > Season 01 > Young Sheldon - [01x01] - Pilot.mkv
and Plex picks this up just fine. But for the TV series Young Rock, my naming convention is:
My Drive > Media > TV Shows > Young Rock > Season 01 > Young Rock - [01x01] - Working the Gimmick.mkv
and it is completely ignored. In addition, if it was one or two series, I could also see where this might be an issue, but there are 67 full shows that are just not being seen.
Plex Documentation → Your Media → Naming & Organizing TV Show Files
It is a naming convention issue.
Rename per Plex documentation:
/TV Shows/Young Rock (2021)/Season 01/Young Rock (2021) s01e01 Working the Gimmick.mkv
You may have to Plex Dance the series after renaming.
From Naming & Organizing TV Show Files
Most television shows have episodes organized into seasons. To name season-based shows create files with the season and episode notation sXXeXX:
This is only an example. The most important bit in the file name is the appropriate season and episode number notation s02e17 which in this example means Season 2 Episode 17 It does not matter if you use dashes, dots or just spaces.
Helpful tools:
Many people use Filebot. It is quite powerful and can rename an entire library in minutes.
Tiny Media Manager is also very useful, and has a free version. I’ve used it on several movies with the pattern ${title} (${year}) {imdb-${imdb}}. You can easily set a pattern for TV shows that matches Plex’s naming standards.
PowerRenamer in Microsoft Power Tools is helpful for simple renaming with pattern matches or regular expressions. It makes quick work of tasks such as adding a year to file names, removing undesirable text from multiple files, etc. Simple example: Rip a TV show with MakeMKV and all the episodes have _tXX at the end. You can remove it from all episodes in just a few seconds.
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