@TulsaTV said:

Given unresponsiveness in the above dialog, it appears the best course of action for Plex users would be to eliminate TMDB as a metadata source for TV Shows. This is under Setting/Agents/Shows. However, I have tried moving TMDB to the bottom in preference and deselecting it in Shows where possible, but the listings are still messed up. I will report back here if I discover a way to fix this in Plex. (Emby must use TVDB rather than TMDB; Season 1 looks perfect there.)

I recently switched to Emby, so no longer have this issue, but when I was on Kodi I solved this by exporting all the show data to local .nfo files and manually fixed the metadata there. I believe Kodi is configured by default to look at local meta-data first. Not sure about Plex, but I think it works the same way.

@superboy97 said:

@FunkyMike said:

I believe this guidance clearly indicates that Secret Origins should be split into three separate episodes, even though they were originally aired in one block. If you disagree, please help me understand why you believe this guidance does not apply in this instance.

As indicated in the rule that you quote, segments are "distinct stories". Here, we are talking about parts of the same story.

Note that EVERY story in Season 1 is a multi-part story. So there are exactly 12 distinct stories in the 26 episodes.

@FunkyMike said:

@TulsaTV said:

Given unresponsiveness in the above dialog, it appears the best course of action for Plex users would be to eliminate TMDB as a metadata source for TV Shows. This is under Setting/Agents/Shows. However, I have tried moving TMDB to the bottom in preference and deselecting it in Shows where possible, but the listings are still messed up. I will report back here if I discover a way to fix this in Plex. (Emby must use TVDB rather than TMDB; Season 1 looks perfect there.)

I recently switched to Emby, so no longer have this issue, but when I was on Kodi I solved this by exporting all the show data to local .nfo files and manually fixed the metadata there. I believe Kodi is configured by default to look at local meta-data first. Not sure about Plex, but I think it works the same way.

Hi @FunkyMike, I updated my post that you quoted above to show a straightforward way to fix this in Plex.

@TulsaTV said:

@superboy97 said:

@FunkyMike said:

I believe this guidance clearly indicates that Secret Origins should be split into three separate episodes, even though they were originally aired in one block. If you disagree, please help me understand why you believe this guidance does not apply in this instance.

As indicated in the rule that you quote, segments are "distinct stories". Here, we are talking about parts of the same story.

Note that EVERY story in Season 1 is a multi-part story. So there are exactly 12 distinct stories in the 26 episodes.

Segments are distinct stories inside one single episode. As indicated above, this is unrelated to this discussion.

@superboy97 said:

@TulsaTV said:

@superboy97 said:

@FunkyMike said:

I believe this guidance clearly indicates that Secret Origins should be split into three separate episodes, even though they were originally aired in one block. If you disagree, please help me understand why you believe this guidance does not apply in this instance.

As indicated in the rule that you quote, segments are "distinct stories". Here, we are talking about parts of the same story.

Note that EVERY story in Season 1 is a multi-part story. So there are exactly 12 distinct stories in the 26 episodes.

Segments are distinct stories inside one single episode. As indicated above, this is unrelated to this discussion.

No more discussion is necessary for Plex users. There is a simple way for them to fix the metadata problem by using TheTVDB for this single show, or the entire Plex TV Shows database, as I detailed on page 2 of this thread.

Emby users will not have the problem at all since apparently Emby uses TheTVDB or IMDb as its default.

@TulsaTV said:

@superboy97 said:

@TulsaTV said:

@superboy97 said:

@FunkyMike said:

I believe this guidance clearly indicates that Secret Origins should be split into three separate episodes, even though they were originally aired in one block. If you disagree, please help me understand why you believe this guidance does not apply in this instance.

As indicated in the rule that you quote, segments are "distinct stories". Here, we are talking about parts of the same story.

Note that EVERY story in Season 1 is a multi-part story. So there are exactly 12 distinct stories in the 26 episodes.

Segments are distinct stories inside one single episode. As indicated above, this is unrelated to this discussion.

No more discussion is necessary for Plex users. There is a simple way for them to fix the metadata problem by using TheTVDB for this single show, or the entire Plex TV Shows database, as I detailed on page 2 of this thread.

Emby users will not have the problem at all since apparently Emby uses TheTVDB or IMDb as its default.

Thank you, I use Kodi, I know there is an addon where I can use TVDB instead of the default TMDB. Will make the switch tonight and post if I recommend it or not.... Spoilers: I expect I will recommend it.

Good news for Jellyfin users: Add the TVDB plugin from the Jellyfin repository (under Advanced/Plugins/Repositories), then go to Manage the TV Shows library. There, you can reorder your preference of databases for metadata or deselect them.

Pushed TVDB to the top in various categories, saved then told the TV Shows library to replace all metadata.

I now have all of Justice League correctly named and with episode descriptions in Jellyfin!

As noted above, Emby needs no changes for this series. For Plex, follow the how-to link I added to the bottom of Page 2 of this discussion to correct the naming and episode descriptions.

Batman The Animated Series has a wildly different organization of episodes and seasons on DVD vs "Aired" order.

Nevertheless, its TMDB and TVDB metadata works for Plex, Jellyfin, Kodi, etc.

Thank goodness the Fox Kids network didn't put on a multiple-episode debut of BTAS back there in 1992.

If they had, presumably TMDB would be forced to report that group of shows as a single episode, and carry it forward to befoul the metadata of 21st Century users ;)