I’m manually setting up a particular series. No online scraping. It’s pulling the numbering from the file names, and I’m editing all the data within Plex from there.
I’m about ten seasons in, and suddenly I’m hitting a road block: a handful of episodes - which follow the same numbering as the others - are being assigned seemingly random episode numbers. The heck?
Below is a screenshot of the file name and the way it’s being numbered. I can’t seem to fix it, even by adjusting the file numbering format.
I did think of that but haven’t looked at it yet. I’m on a Chromebook so I’d have to tap into my server on the Linux machine and install something to edit the metadata, I guess.
Is that show in a TV Show Library or Other Videos?
I’d recommend TV Show/Personal Media
and names that don’t have so many odd parameters:
A TV Show Library Folder/ <---required library folder
.....Wrestling/
.........Season 1994/
............Wrestling - S1994E01 - Monday Night Raw [10.10.1994].mp4
All in [Brackets] is ignored by Plex and if that ‘date’ is only for your benefit - hide it from Plex.
Even though ‘the show’ will be personal media - Plex still requires a legal name/structure - and a date based system may work better:
/TV Show Library Folder/
........Show Name/
............Season 01/
...............Show Name – 2011-11-15 – Optional Info.mp4
… looks like a lot of dashes to me - and looks like what’s gotten you into trouble - like the mix of Date Based and Standard. <—one or the other I’d say.
All libraries need a Folder off the root.
What is ‘Storage 2’?
Anywho - if Personal Media is the Agent and LMA has been demoted under EVERY TAB - AS WELL AS PERSONAL MEDIA - the name is the only thing working for ya. if it doesn’t work - logic says there’s something about the name Plex doesn’t like.
There aren’t that many ‘correct’ ways to name and structure a TV Show, but there are a million ‘incorrect’ ways. Try to stay as ‘correct’ as possible. All Plex needs to do is recognize ‘the next’ episode in a series of them. Try not to confuse Plex… and it’s pretty easy to confuse in TV Show Libraries.
“Storage 2” is the name of the drive. I didn’t know that about brackets, so I’ll try that and see what happens. It’s just weird that I’ve done hundreds of episodes at this point and this is the first time I’ve run into this issue happening.
You need Library Folders.
Your media needs to be in Library Folders - not on the root.
Welcome to what happens with poor naming and structuring. It may work, it may work for a while, it may work until you hit the magic number and when your media files are intermingled with hidden files and folders on the root of a drive… anything can, and often does happen - and none of it very good.
I suggest you ‘start over’.
In fact, I suggest you start over with your entire plexiverse - if none of your media are in library folders - you have a problem that needs correcting.
Disclaimer:
I know less than NOTHING about “Linus” - I do know Plex REALLY, REALLY wants your media in Folders that ONLY contain your media - and nothing else. A “Linus” expert is needed, I think - and I’ll call @ChuckPa and we’ll see what he thinks (Chuck knows a lot about a lot more than I do…lol)
They do, for the most part. But here’s the thing: I have lots of classic RAW and pay-per-views across the three major companies. What I want is to have a wrestling library ordered chronologically. I don’t want to have to jump around between shows trying to figure out which one is next. I want to go in order across the board. So I’m manually combining all the libraries together into folders by year.
It’s ridiculous, but it’s how I want to interact with my wrestling library, dangit!
My hope is that, once I finish combining the folders, I’ll run them through another app (looks like Emby can do this) to create fresh NFO files across the board, then I will add that subfolder you mentioned so it’s structured properly, and tell Plex to just read from the NFOs.
Ugh and now the XBMCNFOTVImporter won’t read my episode NFO files. ARGH ARGH ARGH. And it will read the NFO file for the “show” itself, just won’t read any of the metadata for the episode. I know the naming is right. COME ON PLEX
Okay, first of all, I did change the folder/subfolder issue and still had a ton of numbering issues. The good news on that is the numbering problem was WAY clearer so it was easy to fix. Now everything is in order!
And even better news: I discovered in WebTools a plugin called “Lambda”, which imports AND exports NFO files. So I’m running it on my whole library to back up all my info across the board, which is fantastic. It ALSO means I can manually put together all the data for the wrestling shows in Plex and it will be backed up to NFO files for safekeeping and if my server craps out, I have a second backup (I also back up my database).
