Might be an issue with plex pulling accuate data from TVDB for some shows. Please understand i absolutely have named my files correctly that is NOT the issue i use software to name the files and have triple checked everything i know what i am doing it is not a naming issue! the tv series WWE Smack…

I just refreshed metadata for this show and it looks like the changes have been picked up. I specifically checked S09E06 since that was one example you pointed out that was wrong. It is showing the correct show summary and poster for that episode from TVDB

Hey, yea i saw last night that one was fixed and some others but there’s still some wrong in seasons 8&9, Was just hoping maybe it’s taking a bit to update them all.

If not i might take a crack at fixing them when i get a minute. I have never done it before but i’m sure i could figure it out haha

Yes, it’s possible that it hasn’t been fully pulled in. I was expecting a little bit of a problem with S8. TVDB has a special but TMDB didn’t have it. I think got myself a little confused at that point.

It’s not hard but can just become really tedious, especially with these long seasons. You just need an account at TMDB so that you can do edits. Go to the season you want, click on the episode you want, select edit, click on “external ids” and then fill in the TVDB ID. Hit Save. TMDB will …

Ok cool! i imagine you can edit the episode titles also? Because some are a different format than others like S09E01 is “Friday Night SmackDown 385” then S09E02 is “SmackDown - Jan. 12, 2007” So some go buy the total episodes the show has had and some by the date it aired might so i might put in som…

I think you can but I’m not totally sure. Since the titles rarely matched, I was mostly going by air date to make sure I was matching the episodes correctly. That is probably where some of those non-matchers are coming from. There were some air dates that didn’t seem to match, so I had to kind…

Yea makes sense, I know some ID’s are still showing the wrong info / photo for now but ill give it a few more days for those. Question though if it pulls data from TVDB why do you have to edit it on TMDB that part has me a bit confused because when i googled it the results said they aren’t the same…

Plex primarily pulls from TMDB and uses the external IDs to do the TVDB (aired) ordering, DVD ordering etc. I think at some point it pulls data from TVDB and other sources and massages it all together into a metadata meatloaf. :smiley: Plex uses the IDs to make sure it keeps each episode matched…

Looking at it, I believe Plex is getting those episode titles from TVDB and you won’t be able to fix that on TMDB.

Wrong season info

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LukeLindsay March 14, 2026, 5:19am 25

i did the plex dance twice with no luck so far lol i’ll mess around with it more tomorrow i might just create a new directory and add the folders to it and see if that does the trick. thanks

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Wrong season info

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