Wrong Program Name

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For the last few days, Plex thinks that everything I record is an episode of Transformers:Prime. I’ve never recorded a episode of that show. Any ideas on how to get the proper descriptions?

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@Chromecast4899 said:

Any ideas on how to get the proper descriptions?

By sticking to the Plex way of naming show files and putting them into the proper folder structure.

“Naming tv shows in Plex for fun and profit:”

  1. Look up your show on TheTVDB
  2. Take the title as it is used on TheTVDB. If there is something in parentheses, take that too. If the title contains invalid characters (depends on your file system), like § : % *, simply leave them out.
  3. Check the naming and the folder structure of your show. Name the top folder of the show exactly after the title on TheTVDB. No abbreviations. No additional subfolders. No aliases.
  4. Name the episode files according to the above linked naming guide. Use the same title as for the top folder. Show's Title - s01e01 - additional info.ext (‘- additional info’ can be left out)
  5. After you corrected the naming and folder structure, perform the Plex Dance with all files for this show.
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I guess you didn’t read my post before you responded. “For the last few days”… Until the last Plex update, Plex successfully pulled the program data from the metadata automatically stored when the file was recorded on WMC. I use WMC as my dvr and if Plex can’t read the data without me manually editing it, then Plex is no long a useful tool for me. So I pose the question to someone else, any idea what has gone wrong with Plex?

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I use WMC as my DVR and use MCEBuddy to convert/rename/restructure and move items into my Plexiverse automatically. Been doing it for YEARS. https://mcebuddy2x.codeplex.com/
A recording of ‘Infinity Hall Live’ just arrived via MCEBuddy to Recently Added Television - converted from WTV to MP4 (for direct play) at 1920x1080, perfectly named, structured and populated, so I’ll be watching that at some point.

MCEB-TV
…Infinity Hall Live
…Season 5
…Infinity Hall Live - S05E04 - Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds.mp4
(MCEBuddy did all that - I was doing something else - sleeping)

For a day or so TVDB has been having issues, but that seems to be repaired now.

Plex lost a rather handy api that dealt with poor names some months ago, so if you don’t name your files properly results can and will be unpredictable - to say the least.

I’ll quote @OttoKerner 's learned response to you because if you decide to stick with Plex you’ll no doubt be needing to refer to the contents of his very helpful posting…

@OttoKerner said:

By sticking to the Plex way of naming show files and putting them into the proper folder structure.

“Naming tv shows in Plex for fun and profit:”

  1. Look up your show on TheTVDB
  2. Take the title as it is used on TheTVDB. If there is something in parentheses, take that too. If the title contains invalid characters (depends on your file system), like § : % *, simply leave them out.
  3. Check the naming and the folder structure of your show. Name the top folder of the show exactly after the title on TheTVDB. No abbreviations. No additional subfolders. No aliases.
  4. Name the episode files according to the above linked naming guide. Use the same title as for the top folder. Show's Title - s01e01 - additional info.ext (‘- additional info’ can be left out)
  5. After you corrected the naming and folder structure, perform the Plex Dance with all files for this show.

If you can’t be bothered to prepare your media for Plex - FileBot can probably do it for you in seconds (link in my signature).

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Thanks Tony. Just what I was looking for.

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Downloaded MCEbuddy last night. It did a great job of reading the files and coming up with the appropriate name. I turned off the conversion to MP4 so it just copies the wtv file with a proper name structure. That way it went pretty quickly.

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Lot’s of options with MCEBuddy. If you record Movies from TV as well as TV Shows the Custom Naming features can separate Movies from TV Shows and load them into different libraries with different structures.

You can also use Comskip to rat out the commercials and remux the edited version still in the original untouched format, but Buddy only encodes a few frames around the edits so that too goes really quickly.