Plex not recognizing seasons. Assuming it’s not a full movie, anyway.
● Plex not recognizing seasons mp4 Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 720x404 23. 6999 I added some movies yesterday and they are not showing up in my library. Renamed the files and folders Can you post the full path to some of these files? The vast majority of the time the issue is not following the naming conventions, as there are no guarantees that naming that used to work will still work later if it doesn't follow Plex's guidelines. 0. It shows all 10 episodes in Server Version#: 4. plex. I cannot get the movie to add to the library on NAS2. Each show is in its own folder and sometimes the seasons are split between folders. 1 Player Version#: Apple TV 4K The TV Show ‘Shuffle’ option is not random and chooses the same 15-20 episodes every single time. If there's no special in TVDB or TMDB for that featurette, you could put in in a Personal Media library, and tag it with Show X. 6562. I usually stay up a little bit later in the Otherwise the Plex might not recognize the changes. I’m running Plex Version 1. mp4 but it shows up as: Mexican Slayride (1) Creating an "Season 14" folder, dropping the latest episode in the directory with the name Doctor Who (2005) {imdb-tt20245360}. For some reason Plex will not recognize season 2 and 3 of GOT on my Plex server. I figured it was a naming issue so I went and renamed at least a thousand episodes with the recommended structure example: y:\\TV For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. It also lists all episodes as "Episode 1", "Episode 2" etc. Season 1 is episodes 1-23, season 2 is episodes 24-34, etc. 8992-8463ad060 Having a very unusual situation that I hope someone can shed light on. Turns out I had selected DVD order in the show settings at some point but TVDB only has a DVD order for season 6-10. Any Server Version#: 1. This is the first time since I installed Plex in 2015 that I've not been able to readily resolve naming/metadata/related issues. 32. dead. example I'm parsing the seasons out in the way that the TVDB says they should go, however things get screwy when we get to season 8 as it keeps showing an episode that even the TVDB doesn't recognize and even the description of the episode says that it was unaired outside of japan and I'm wondering how to make it so that plex gets rid of that metadata and shows the correct Server Version#: 4. (the original uncensored version) to my plex server but plex can only identify season 1 . Also note, after more digging I found that Plex is not recognizing This page is community-driven and not run by or affiliated with Plex, Inc. the problem is i got 8 seasons! season 1 works perfect! season 4 has 1 episode! all the files are saved the same as . TV Show - S01E01 - title. ADMIN MOD Trouble recognizing one show . Solved I am having an issue where Plex won't add several seasons of a show (and the entirety of another show) to my media library. I take it plex is recognizing the Star Trek show itself, metadata shows up ok, etc? (in same folder and all) is the first episode but the rest not recognizing the srt files. Plex doesn't even add a Season 14 card to the show. 91. ext This worked for most Server Version#: 1. That is way it is designed. 2058-e67a4e892 Player Version#: 4. Running Ubuntu 14. plexmatch content: Title: series2 title Season: 2 ep:SP01:SPs/medi I have most of those seasons, not complete but the ones I have didn't have any problems finding meta and using names. When I add a new movie or tv show, about 50% of the time plex does not recognize it and it doesn't show up in the library. To begin with seasons 1 through 3 were named Episode X - episode name. Solved EDIT - On a whim I tried moving them to where I keep all the mainstream tv shows, and it showed up. Server Version#: Latest For Netgear ReadyNAS Player Version#: Latest For Windows 11 I have the movie “The 33” ripped to an MKV file. It now has them grouped in 2 seasons with 0-99 being season 1. Some salient points: I haven’t been doing anything new or unusual. The files are playable and not corrupt, I rescanned the library a dozen times, unmatched and matched manually, analyzed the library and shows seperately but nothing seems to work. and get the “Awaiting channel scan” with a flashing 12:00 but no Adding -partX worked for me, in the client the total duration of the chapter appears adding all the parts, the problem I have is when it is played, the time of the chapter only shows what is in one part, when that part ends automatically I It plays the next part, but if I stop the playback in part two, the client marks the chapter as watched, if I play the episode again it starts from part 1 I have a system which handles post-processing and naming correctly so that PMS on my Ubuntu 14. 25. Linux. 27. I'm using Absolute Series Scanner and Hama bundle as my agent and I've also named the episodes like so : (Attack on Titan - S01E01 - To You, in 2000 Seasons 1,2 and 5-9 all show up properly but 3 and 4 aren't being recognized properly. Hi After googling and hours of frustration trying to set up Plex I’m posting here a a last resort before I uninstall and try something else. 7164 Player Version#:All I’ve been using the Plex server on my ReadyNAS for years, and ran across a problem that I’m hoping someone has an easy solution for. I use the Plex TV Series agent. I also checked the file and it runs without issue. Multiple Software Solutions (release year). BILL_NYE_s01ep01. For Windows or OS X installs, this will almost always be the user account logged into the computer. I'll put my filepath in here but the same file names are working for season 2. Server Version#:1. 18. 8395 Player Version#: 1. I'm baffled. When I do this, seasons 5 and 6 work fine. Together, they travel on countless adventures where they learn more about each other and get into situations that could have terrible consequences. The titles are available on TheTVDB. All episodes are correctly named and foldered according to convention - eg: \\TV Shows\\Teen Titans Go\\Season 1\\Teen Titans Go S01E01. 8. I'm not sure why. Sub folders are SEASON 1, SEASON 2, etc, and episodes are named properly with Filebot (I doublechecked each season with IMDB) Renamed the folder to LEGO MASTERS AU (2019), it didn't show up. 4929 on a FREENAS media server. I followed all the instructions in that post just as they are written, but the episode names still don’t display Hello everyone, I’m having an issue with Plex Media Server, which I’ve installed on a Synology DS423+ NAS running DSM 7. zip (2. 30. The writeup below is from the documentation (pdf) I do not want to use just the 1 season 153 episode monster that it was actually aired in because I like my posters and the rest of my DB franchise posters all match with a certain theme. This has produced some issues. The file structure is as follows: /TV Shows (library folder) /Columbo /Columbo Season 1 /Columbo Season 2 The individual episodes follow the naming pattern So I figured instead, I could duplicate season 2 into a separate "plex rename" directory, where I could then rename the files to the syntax plex wants, and add that to my TV Shows library. 4. Meanwhile Plex only has Season 16. Have just upgraded my server to 2022 and fresh installed PLEX Server. I have them named like this: A-Team\\Season 1\\The A-Team - S01E01 - Mexican Slayride. Then, when you look at Show X, the featurette is on the page, just not in the Specials season folder. Season 1 - 99 it has handlded flawlessly but any season 100 and above it won't recognize and bring into plex. 138. 23. The first thing I did was open the link to my NAS and went to the location where I wanted to place these files. My naming convention is as follows: Television Series - Season 01 - Television Series - s01e01. However, it never pulls meta data for S07E14-E26, even though S07E01-E13 work perfectly. And even those, that I saw, separated by seasons, still used absolute number. e. 33413 Include season premieres in Continue Watching is enabled under Settings\Library - Unchecked setting - save, rechecked setting saved. I would look at how you’ve named the special episodes and whether they match up with what the likes of TheTVDB have recorded or not. The reason for that is the scanner which This seems to have happened with the last update for the AppleTV. mkv" as per here. version of tvdb and remind each episode as per Server Version#: 1. The only way to fix it is to switch users, and switch back. 40. The issue I’m having is there are some series I have archived from disk that will not be recognized by Plex when under a library set as series, can be seen in a library set as movies. g Plex suddenly not recognizing Season folders for one particular show. season 13, The Power of the Doctor, i name as "Doctor Who (2005)/Season 13/Doctor Who (2005) - S13E09 - The Power of the Doctor - HDTV-720p. I’ve ripped my Looney Tunes Golden Collection and imported it into Plex, but the episode names are not showing up correctly. I used to have DBZ on there, I reripped the discs and added it to the server and now i’m having issues getting the information to pull. If it doesn't If you’re not sure whether a show is season- or date-based, check The Movie Database (TMDB) or The TVDB and name it as it appears there. /Band of Brothers (2001)/Season 01/Band of Brothers (2001) - s01e01 - Currahee. If I recall it is just 291 episodes numbers 1 through 291, no seasons at all. On TheTVDB, all episodes are listed, and my files are named correctly. 3 LTS I’m a new Plex user and recently installed the free plexmediaserver on linux. Server Version#: 1. I have just started importing tv shows for the first time. 04 LTS with Plex Version 2. tv. Notes: Not all Plex apps support playback of stacked media All parts must be of the same file format (e. show title/season/S01E01 etc. 1 Running on Ubuntu Server 18. So this kind of feature would be With the release of the 60th anniversary specials, Doctor Who begins a new grouping of release dubbed Doctor Who (2023), TMDB has the correct entries, but I can’t pick them up from watch. Plex recognized each of the season Long story short, I have Tom and Jerry (1940) and TVDB's scanner in its infinite wisdom will only bring up Tom and Jerry Kids or Tom and Jerry Tales, the main show shows up as the third option in their database for whatever reason, and the data scraper plex has on it refuses to go past the top two results on TVDB, is there any sort of better scraper for that because something this I stand corrected. 264 and H. In some cases it finds the show or movie’s name and description, but no imagery or further details I’ve attached my server logs Plex Media Server Logs_2020-05-14_21-26-05. com Should I change agents? There is an exemple Thanks in advance. I tried the Say you have a featurette on The Making of Show X. I tried the “Plex dance Sometimes, especially in animes, the different seasons are give unique names and are not merely labeled season 1, 2, 3, etc Then I have to match the series with the original name of the series and Plex then thinks it’s the first season of the series. I moved the entirety of one show into individual season folders and it has only the first two episodes of the first season, no 2nd season, and the rest is fine. They are all using the Show. Maybe you just got lucky with Season 01. 0, but only because the previous version I was on was striking out on these episodes, too The problematic shows have been narrowed down to new episodes of Chicago Med, Chicago If plex does not add your files to your libraries then there are three reasons for that. Plex not recognizing I have Seinfeld season 1 labeled exact same as the other 8 seasons. It seems you are having problems with Plex either not recognizing your files, not ordering them properly, not gathering metadata, or a similar issue. TV/V (1983)/Season 0/V (1983) - S00E03 - The Final Battle (1). Main folder: Seinfeld Sub folders: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3. 1 I am trying to add “The A-Team” but it doesn’t matter what I select they end up showing the same. it is doing a great job and have not had any issues, but I added a show yesterday and plex is only showing 7 of the 14 seasons. I have a television series (8 seasons) uploaded to my plex server (synology nas) but plex is only recognizing seasons 1-4 . The files are there, I’m using the exact same file naming structure for my movies that have worked for the past Plex Not Recognizing TV Show Seasons . Plex suddenly not recognizing Season folders for one particular show. It is already added to my movie library on NAS1 that runs its own PLEX server. My problem is that after installing my music library and having it scanned This page is community-driven and not run by or affiliated with Plex, Inc. I moved it outside of the season folder right into the main directory Plex is looking at and still nothing. I’ve got several other TV shows in my Plex library that were all automatically added when I moved the files into their respective folders, but Jam doesn’t show This page is community-driven and not run by or affiliated with Plex, Inc. I am trying to get a particular TV Show (Bill Nye the Science Guy if you must know) to show up. Episodes 200 and up in season 2. Black thumbnail (no poster), no episode names, For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. This naming convention is used for all 8 seasons. For series, I always have to update the metadata first and then the new episodes are added. mkv and . Plex not recognizing The Grand Tour and Top Gear Solved My Plex server doesn't recognise the grand tour and Top gear. And it did. ) This took two days. Before using Plex, I worked for a while with Kodi, which I also liked. Members Online • I_Am_Steven . 41. I have updated the software routinely (that’s Plex, MacOs and iTunes - they are all running the latest versions). My husband’s wanted to keep DVR recordings ‘separate’ from So I created a separate folder on my drive for DVR shows (labeled DVR) and another for DVR movies, separate from the Movies and TV Shows folder, and we have created libraries specifically for those folders. I know. 04. general-linux, question. mp4 Hello, I noticed that the names of the episodes of my series are not detected. Reply reply more reply Server Version#: 1. 3 MB) Server Version#: TV Show Special Features Not Showing Up - Plex Forum Loading It seems you are having problems with Plex either not recognizing your files, not ordering them properly, not gathering metadata, or a similar issue. All episodes are named in the same way. mkv It’s seasons 1-5. 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. ). Plex does not seem to want to add those Plex not recognizing some movies and shows Help Hey there. (edit: or restart the plex app completely) This happens for all of our users on all 4 of our AppleTVs. mkv and still seasons 2 and 3 will It seems you are having problems with Plex either not recognizing your files, not ordering them properly, not gathering metadata, or a similar issue. mp4 media2. For a few hours all was fine. 0 (Plex Web Version)? Hi everyone, I’ve been having the problem for a few weeks now that Plex no longer recognizes newly added episodes of series. Any thoughts to why seasons 5-8 are not showing up? I just added a new show, S01E01 and it does not show up in Continue Watching. I transferred to my shield pro that as using as my plex server. This guide that I wrote while baked out of my mind will quickly walk you through how to resolve this issue. Heroes is 4 Seasons, but only 3 are visable, although “All Episodes” contains all the Episodes. i dont think there are any stacked files in this batch, BUT, just to know how to handled that the how to would be helpful and appreciated!🤗 but season 6 decided Fixes many existing problems with absolute numberingREAD THE FLAMING MANUAL YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY RESULTS NOT TYPICAL USE AT YOUR OWN RISK NO WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED BACK UP YOUR UNIVERSE BEFORE RESCANNING WITH THIS SCANNER Clear? Good. I am running plex on unraid and using filebot to sort/rename my files. I'm not sure which show that is as I can find multiple on both tmdb and tvdb (if it was the link provided, then it isn't linking to that show) The year in the tv show folder usually helps. 04, installed from official repository. 5721 Player Version#: 1. Members Online • ArtlessFlapDragon. 2 Windows 11 version 22H2 In the web player, I recently went to Movies/Collections, and all I see is I can’t even go back to Recommended, Library, or Categories because the menu at the top is gone. I can still play them but there's no metadata and they aren't grouped together with the main show. That's because there are only 22 episodes in "season 6" as defined by the database. Rename absolute numbering to SxEx can go wrong and fuck up all sorts of things, so I thought I'd show y'all how to enable Absolute numbering support in Plex itself. 2. First, here is the problem directory. 136. I've added Movies and TV shows before without problems. I'm having a problem lately. x264-2hd. But here's where I'm confused. This guide that I wrote while baked out of my mind will quickly walk you through how to This appears to be the correct series but Plex insists on matching with this series from 2017. Where Split_Name is one of the following: cdX discX diskX dvdX partX ptX and you replace X with the appropriate number (cd1, cd2, etc. Examples of the file naming/organization mentioned can be found at the end Two broad guidelines can often help here, too: If you run into issues with content not being found, being ignored, or simply not matching well, the first thing you should do is to follow the naming and organization Not all Seasons Showing on the TV (player), for all TV Serieseg. hdtv. mkv then scanning the library results in no matches. Members Online • elpasa01 \Plex\Anime\Attack on Titan (2013)\Season 04\Attack on Titan Final Season S04E01 The Other Side of the Ocean. is there a way to make plex recognize them ?. There are some differences outlined in the Metadata Agents support article, but essentially Plex TV Series is new agent, and TVDB/TMDB are legacy agents. I first setup folders for each season. Avatar (2009). (FWIW the only place my naming differs from Plex's preferred is in the season section, as I'm in the habit of also putting the shows name there) Directing Plex to the parent folder for Taskmaster (comedy, in this case) is what solved it. It also hates names with spaces in them Sonarr not recognizing second season . I'll give it another couple of days in case the changes u/SwiftPanda16 made haven't replicated yet. I "TV shows\Band of Brothers (2001)\Season 01\Band of Brothers (2001) - s01e01 - Currahee. I have searched a lot but find no solution why MKV files can not be detected in my Plex server? I am sure that the MKV files are good as I can play them using VLC Player. This is fine, but each season shows only 1 random episode. No other workaround (other than the manual one mentioned). 6 MB) I recently got my Plex Server up and running again. My naming scheme was /video/TV/Showname/Showname - 01x02 - Epname - Quality. According to all other sources I've found, IMDB ids are not supported for television episodes. Season 9 Episode label: Show name - SeasonxEpisode - Episode name Example: Seinfeld - 1x01 - The Seinfeld Chronicles Plex not recognizing all For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. Plex also has plugins that allow it to match with anime, which I use. I watch the first season no problems. which is what I’ve done for all shows. System seems to be functioning just fine with both movies and tv shows playing flawlessly. name of episode, same as I have for the first two and it won't add to the show folder in plex. I see this comes up on a regular basis and never gets an answer! but will try again as previous ones have hit the 3 month time out. Then tag Show X as Show X. Help Hey all, Plex just randomly today stopped recognizing a new tv episode of a series already on my system as well as a new season for a different show on my system. It's only showing 2 of the available episodes, but I've confirmed I have all 10 downloaded and in the same folder. vid" is larger than 256 characters, spaces included I'm having an issue where my Plex server isn't recognizing a full season. mkv; And the TV series/shows should be named in the following order: Season-based: ShowName – SXXEXX – Optional_Info. mp4 files not being recognized - Desktops & Laptops - Plex Forum Loading I am trying to get Plex to recognize Yellowstone season 3. Plex isn't scanning Dragon Ball Z properly Help So I wanted to start watching DBZ, got 3 seasons and scanned into Plex, no problem, looks like it's matched up and ready to go. But I ran a test on another machine to make sure everything worked. When I Season folders are optional. I have Season 1 of Teen Titans Go on my Plex server. However, having an episode title (if a show has them) in the filename helps immensely if you need to identify the files to yourself using Plex’s Get Info command (to ensure Plex named and ordered them correctly) and when manually checking files on your drive (to ensure you aren’t missing an episode or might have a duplicate, for This page is community-driven and not run by or affiliated with Plex, Inc. 6562 Player Version#: 1. I have a music library that I maintain with musicbrainz picard that has ~1000 artists ~770albums and ~11000 tracks. It also wants me to put the first half of season 6 (S06E01-E13) as S05E01-E13, and the second half of season 6 (should be S06E14-E26) as S06E01-E13. I have the following series that are either not coming up in Plex (no entry shows up), or getting merged with other non-relevant shows as other seasons: All of Us Are Dead (2022) Hellbound (2021) Kingdom (2019) I have all my files names perfectly This article explains the Plex MP4 related issues and gives solutions to Plex not recognizing MP4 and Plex won’t play MP4. But when I scan the library plex comes back with nohing. The best solution I could find was in this post: Easy Guide to Looney Tunes Golden Collection. /TV Shows/ShowName/Season 02/ShowName – s02e17 – Optional_Info. Everything else seems to register fine with Plex except Taboo. Plex does, however, manage to find metadata just fine for Archer, with the exact same folder structure, but the episodes aren't even named according to their guidelines, and are instead called "Archer. To name season-based shows create files with the season and episode notation sXXeXX: /TV Shows/ShowName/Season 02/ShowName – s02e17 – Optional_Info. 265 which is quite common in video filename, so it somehow hardcoded this two numbers in their analysis logic. all MP4 or all MKV) I found the same issue and I missed two episode - 264, 265, and finally, I have to rename all episodes filename to S1Exxx, I think the problem why 264 (and 265) could not be well recognized is Plex mixed the number 264 with video codec format H. If you're not resetting the numbering between each season, that might explain Plex's issue. mp4 A-Team\\Season 1\\The A-Team - S01E02 - Children of Jamestown. e. Not sure why it's showing season 2 metadata, but that might come down to what numbers you have and if Plex is reading them wrong because of how they are numbered. It does appear that imdb has changed it to Season 16 also so maybe I'll just rename the files and put them in the Season 16 folder. 67. Plex has no problem finding those but never recognizes season 1. Here is an example of one. S01E01 When I add them Plex initially recognizes them as two shows, but quickly combines them to 1 show with 2 seasons. The naming Hi, within the last two weeks (including with the latest updates), I’ve had issues with several shows having their data successfully grabbed from the TVDB. the rest of the seasons appear almost empty . The Plex Media Server is smart software that makes playing Movies, TV Shows Plex Not Recognizing TV Show . ext; This is only an example. I have followed the guideline for organizing the files and am matching how the tvdb has them organized but and have For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. I read previous posts about this topic. 12. The file/folder IS NOT following the naming convention: This is a common reason, plex expects that the files are in a certain format and any deviations from that format will reduce the likelihood of plex adding your files to your library or finding metadata for it. 8227 Player Version#: 4. 79980c29d4c0c8 Player Version#: 4. Inside of that folder, you put the individual files for the season (so as of this moment, the only things inside the folder 'Season 01' is the 3 video files for the 3 episodes, with the naming Server Version#: 1. Everything seems to Server Version#: 1. ext your "X:\Folder name here\other folder name here\video file name. the middle is missing. Any ideas? Server Version#:1. I saw this thread as I looking for help with Plex not recognizing HBO's "Looney Tunes Cartoons" series from 2020, a TV series in which each episode is composed of individual shorts. 125. So for example if you just add South Park: The Streaming Wars (2022). . Season 1 matches perfectly, but not season 2! Plex wont recognise it. Just installed the update and there have been a few changes to Freeview so wanted to get those channels they are listed on the guide but do not work, so I hit scan channels. Hi everybody, I have this file in the shared flex folder : the. For NAS- or Linux-based Plex Media Server installs, it will usually be the plex:plex user in a default install. How to & Tips. First things first, Plex DOES NOT just delete files until This page is community-driven and not run by or affiliated with Plex, Inc. mkv Reply reply 0bf1d83648628b495559 Plex suddenly not recognizing Season folders for one particular show. It was a tv series that had 5 seasons. Reply reply More replies More replies. plexmatch some mp4 files /SPs media1. r/PleX. does plex server support this ordinary file? After a young male is transported to the future, he teams up and works with a team of friends who work at a delivery company. Last night I restarted the machine a couple of times, and then made a few nonsense directories, such as Bozo (2021)->Season 01-> Bozo S01E01. The show in question is a Daily and even though I have TVDB listed for "Ordering" in advance it isn't working. I’m running the latest PlexPass build of 0. Now some of the shows aren't showing up correctly. Only 3 recently added shows are not being indexed. For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. The only solution I can find on Plex support is about how to set up folders i. My file organization looks like this: HD/Sagas/Saga Name/Movie Name HD/Animation/Animation Saga Name/Movie Name Plex is usually very good at scraping my Most of my files are appearing on Plex, but some aren't. My issue I can not get Plex MC to display my TV episodes in the user interface. For example dragon ball z, plex has decided that episodes 100-199 shouldn't be shown in the UI. It seems you are having problems with Plex either not recognizing your files, not ordering them properly, not gathering metadata TV shows not scanning featurettes and other subdirectories Loading For a couple of shows, PMS on my Ubuntu Server has not been recognizing episode files selectively. I have the show name as a folder, with two subfolders called Season 1 and Season 2, but it only thinks I have the first season. /TV Shows/ShowName/Season 02/ShowName – s02e17 – Split_Name. 76. All I want to know, is if I can manually match the show myself in order to have it understand each episode and what season/episode it belongs to, without having to alter my folder Server Version#: 1. D:/tv shows/sexy beasts (year)/sxxexx. mp4" From what I can tell this should be correct but Plex is still not finding the file. By any chance has Plex merged season 2 with season 0? I ask because that’s a hell of a leap in episode count compared to seasons 1 & 3. i am trying to add my TV show to my plex server. 15. ) January 14, 2016, 3:47pm 1. When I click into a show, instead of having 26 episodes, it'll have a single episode, and it appears like this (I'm unsure what the little 26 means in the corner means); but when I try to watch it, it's just one 25-minute episode. mp4 files that are Plex not recognizing new episodes/seasons of tv show . Episode tiitles aren’t required. Seasons 1-5 were defaulting to the metadata in the files from makemkv or "episode #" Once Plex not recognizing MasterClass seasons 100+ Help I have just added a large amount of MasterClass series to my plex. mp4 to your South Park folder it’ll say well that’s not a TV show because it doesn’t follow the S01E01 format and it’ll ignore it. mp4 . ext → e. I have the folder structure like this: ─Specials/ │ │ └───Doctor Who (2005) - S00E83 - The Day of the Doctor. If you've renamed files after an initial scan, you may also need to do the Plex Dance in order for Plex to Make sure the naming follows Plex's recommended TV show naming conventions: Most television shows have episodes organized into seasons. Plex does not find any metadata for my show, not online or my local files. 1 Plex android 9. Any suggestion? This page is community-driven and not run by or affiliated with Plex, Inc. I've double and triple checked permissions on the folders to make sure Within Plex itself, one quick way to check this is to go to Manage Library > Edit > Add Folders > Browse For Media Folder, then navigate to an episode that isn't getting scanned in. Then I moved the files for the episodes into each of the Season’s folder. I have a series with multiple seasons, as one does, however Sonarr can't seem to recognize that. All the file names are very similar, having been named by Sonarr. 8992-72008992 Player Version#: 4. The server does routine scans but just My issue with the new Plex TV Agent is that not matter what I'm doing, it's still pulling data from TMDB. I have other . \Season 01\Show Name - S01E01 - Episode Title. Plex TV Shows not recognizing; Criminal Minds Evolution . Because of reasons, for example seeding the folder, I cannot simply rename the folder. walking. mp4 naming convention. mkv. The show title, genre, summery, seasons, season summaries, etc all show up fine. For instance, a directory for a particular series includes the first seven episodes but Plex shows only five of them. 77. Have tried deleting and adding back different quality versions, Plex seems to pick up individual episodes, but when I refreshed all of season 4, it has not picked that up (Breaking Bad - S04E03 - Open House Bluray-1080p. moved season 1 out of library and back For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. ext I've been using the TVDB DVD ordering in plex for the show and then just putting them in their seasons. ext) and follow it It seems you are having problems with Plex either not recognizing your files, not ordering them properly, not gathering metadata, or a similar issue. 4 OS Version: Ubuntu 18. They are on an external hard drive. 61. Updated to MacOS 15. ext Plex not recognizing all tv show files . I’ve been running plex for a month now and I love it. Is there any reason why it wouldn’t show up? I already went into the plex folders where it scans for content and I added that specific shows folder as another In this instance, I do not want to use it as I wish to retain the folder structure I have. Use the show First, it took ages for Plex to find all the metadata (even when recognizing the shows, had to force refresh metadata on some of them, some of them would appear alone, If I remove the OVA special Plex doesn't detect the show at all even though Season 1 and Season 2 still exist in files. I have tried selecting and importing each folder but I have also tried selecting all of the hard drive to scan. TitleS01E1. 1 Hi there, My Plex server, which otherwise is behaving as expected, is not seeing a recently added Columbo series in my TV library directory. I *could* download as both. Plex Server: 1. So I updated my main Plex Mac. Then On my TV Shows library (which is on two Synology NAS One of the shows I renamed has 4 seasons, Plex can only pick up one of them and it's incomplete. First, it took ages for Plex to find all the metadata (even when recognizing the shows, had to force refresh metadata on some of them, some of them would appear alone, etc. How can I fix this? (i only recently got into media servers and stuff and don't even have a proper setup yet so forgive me if i miss something Server Version#: 1. Even named the episodes their episode number. When I do a library scan, it spins the wheel for about 5 seconds and then stops, but the new stuff doesn’t show up anywhere. Ok, Perhaps it is a Christmas gift, but I woke up this morning and Plex recognizes everything. Everything works fine with movies. but not all seasons would import the correct episode names. I'm not familiar with filebot, but from looking at it's main page, it does look super useful, but I question how it handles large numbers of files with no season information. 09 Hi. I allowed radarr to rename the episodes for the entire series to be Games of thrones - SXXEXX - episode name. Login with any user (we have 3 managed users), watch something, and if we stop watching it at all midway through, it’s stuck at that point. 4 So I run Plex Media Server on a Mac Mini and about 7 months ago it just stopped recognizing and adding any new media to my library. Scanned all my libraries, all seemed fine, now this is strange Not all Seasons Showin No it matters, Plex will use TVDB and TMDB to find all the information even if you don’t pay for subscriptions. 04 VM can recognize it accordingly. The Plex Media Server is smart software that makes playing Movies, TV Shows and other media on your computer simple. SEASON 01. The naming convention I have is Name of show\season\SE03E01. All specials for Plex go in a single "Season" (Season 00/Specials). There maybe a possibility that the show has been recognized but deemed as a duplicate by Plex. g. mkv). 5916 (running on Unraid) Plex Web: 4. mkv For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. This is in the server agents An anime series (Attack on Titan) is not being recognized by my plex media server. 6999 Player Version#: 1. TV Shows . is that because the rest of the seasons are set acording to the censored version ? . Assuming it’s not a full movie, anyway. mp4 The server only identifies up to E26. Help So I have a about 20% of my tv shows that won't show correct metadata. For example, if you try and put all "Marvel" TV shows in [Edit] I fixed this by creating a new movies library and deleting the troublesome one. 29. I’ve been using Plex since approx 2008, and I’m familiar with the naming schema (e. Renaming / Reorganizing doesn't seem to help. ext. Reply reply [deleted] • There's a good chance it won't cause problems. TV Shows\Show Name\Season 01\Show Name - S01E01 - Episode Title. Have tried removing the season altogether and clearing out the trash, adding it back in and once again it creates the separate tv show with season 3 in it. All file names are named in the same way, so I'm really not sure why they are not being picked up. zip (6. We’re trying to get TVDB to update it correctly as well. I have about 20-25 episodes between season 39 Good morning, Just curious if anyone else has experienced this and has a solution to fix it. I've double checked everything, and it is in the same folder as my other TV shows, the folders are formatted correctly, and it is the same media type as the other seasons that For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. 8227 Directory structure in docker container: /dir1 /dir2 /dir3 /tv /series1 some mp4 files /series2 /Season1 title some mp4 files /Season2 title . BUT! It looks like there is no way to remove the original copy of season 2 from my plex library, without also deleting it from my actual file system, or For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. 123. The girlfriend likes to watch The Big Bang Theory (and other shows until I get sick of the same 15 episodes) before bed and falling asleep to them for the white noise aspect. │ ├───Season 2 │ ├───Season 3 │ ├───Season 4 │ └───Season 5. And only season 1 would be recognised by Plex. 976fps 1124kbps [Video] Audio: AAC 48000Hz stereo 123kbps [Audio] I have updated the library but the movie doesn't appear in the list. 14. mkv or Breaking Bad - S04E08 - Hermanos Bluray-1080p. It's shared and when I run PLEX all the shows appear in the TV SHOW library. Hey guys, I was wondering if I could get some help! (Obviously, why else would I be here?) I have several TV shows in a "Television" folder. Reply reply All Seasons are in Season 1/2 in Plex? Named and in season folders on the PC. You can put in a feature request on Plex's official forums to have the functionality added in the future. Reboots and rescans do nothing. I’m attempting to add the TV show Jam to my Plex library, with no luck. Date-Based Television Shows The user account under which your Plex Media Server is running needs to have “permission” to access your content. Go to your tv library switch from TV Shows to Episodes, change the "All" to "Duplicates" any that show up check the "Info" for that episode if it is showing 2 different file locations then Plex has combined the shows. Naming conventions seem fine though? Upgraded my plex server to the newest version recently. Or just use {plex} for the naming format in filebot, and it will handle For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. all my episodes follow the naming scheme {Series Title} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {Episode Title} but plex doesn't recognize the episode title and just names the episode either episode 1/2/3 or the date it was originally available. ross (Ross42. I've seen quite some people use rename bots due to Plex being Plex and not recognising certain episodes or seasons/arcs. 3432-3929cb60 I recently updated my Plex server to version 1. The agent list you showed doesn't actually set the agent of your libraries, it just lists metadata For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. I'm going to use SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE as an example. Solved Running Plex Version 1. Then i just change the title afterwards in plex and put a "(SPECIAL)" tag at For the “Plex TV Series” agent, it is recommended to always include the year alongside the series title in folder and file names, e. I have just uploaded 6 seasons of a TV show and the first 5 are showing up on Plex and work fine, but season 6 is not showing at all. Any new features will likely only be available in the new agent (e. I have all the seasons, they are all named correctly in the same manner for every season, however for some Can I manage to make PLEX recognize properly my season folder? This is the content of ‘Macross II\Season #1 ’ dir: Follow Plex naming and organization. 13. However just this weekend I noticed every time I upload new files to my media server and scan library files plex does nothing. BTW, Sonarr shows all the episodes as downloaded and ready. 129-1cd63c1d Plex Media Server Logs_2024-05-05_09-42-40. show/season/episode extras outside of the 'Specials' season). mkv so im confused why only the first season and 1 episode from the 4th season is showing up but none In the case of my central issue in this post, I have the TV show The Office (US). (I have included screenshots here for one of the numerous of these) Of these shows, I have tried storing them in both Standard and Daily format, further I have completed the full “plex dance” to ensure new For questions and comments about the Plex Media Server. I then attempted to add episodes of new TV shows that I had downloaded, and ran a library scan per usual. My Plex server is not recognizing the addition of some episodes. Of if you're using the TMDB agent: Plex not recognizing seasons 3 and 4 of the office. I have copied that movie folder to a second NAS2, that also runs its own PLEX server. Spiceworks Community Issue with Plex server. Help For the life of me I cannot get Plex to recognize Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S02. This page is community-driven and not run by or affiliated with Plex, Inc. 9. 1. So while you may be right, I'm sure you'll still see a lot of absolute numbering, which makes scraping TVDB difficult to use, no? Having the trouble with both TVDB and MDB Really causing issues with my database Tried refreshing metadata, unmatching and finding it again. Also have you set your naming agents to the TVDB first and moved Local media assests to the bottom or unchecked it all together. Episodes 4 and 7 are not showing up. I’ve been adding files at basically the Plex uses tmdb unless you specifically request it to use another. comments. 6364. On the plex web browser on my pc I refreshed the server, and it shows seasons 1,3,4,5 but not 2. Using folder view I can navigate to the folders, but Plex says there’s no content in the folders. 5488-cc260c476 Player Version#: Version 3. s04e13. mkv (with some randomly chosen tv show renamed). 5395 Player Version#: Web Client 3. I use Sonarr so they all use the same naming convention, etc. Wait. After that, they're detected just as the filename. mp4. lihsjucuhvxxfmosindxlmxzsvjqkpnwbbeyvwcwy