Specials Season Displayed Instead of Season 1 in Plex Library

[StancuFlorin]

Issue:
In Plex, the Generic Series does not display Season 1. Instead, it only shows the "Specials" season with a single episode. This episode contains all files from disk.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Navigate to the Plex library.
2. Search for Generic Series.
3. Observe that Season 1 is missing and only the "Specials" season is listed.

Expected Behavior:
Season 1 should be listed with all its episodes.

Actual Behavior:
Only the "Specials" season is displayed with one episode containing all the episode files.

Additional Information:

• Plex Version: 4.141.0
• Server OS: unRAID 7 / Docker
• File Structure:

root@Tower:/mnt/user/downloads/sonarr-anime/Generic Series# ls -l
total 137728264
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 6107341734 Feb  3 10:08 Generic.Series.S01E01.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 6155998174 Feb  3 09:49 Generic.Series.S01E02.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5728745369 Feb  3 09:55 Generic.Series.S01E03.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 6068546279 Feb  3 09:56 Generic.Series.S01E04.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5819341916 Feb  3 10:02 Generic.Series.S01E05.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5680949677 Feb  3 10:03 Generic.Series.S01E06.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 6371468254 Feb  3 09:49 Generic.Series.S01E07.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5674547588 Feb  3 10:11 Generic.Series.S01E08.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv`
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 6255936994 Feb  3 10:14 Generic.Series.S01E09.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5897721027 Feb  3 10:17 Generic.Series.S01E10.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5676990179 Feb  3 10:19 Generic.Series.S01E11.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5668801519 Feb  3 10:28 Generic.Series.S01E12.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5654260291 Feb  3 10:24 Generic.Series.S01E13.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5644533828 Feb  3 10:26 Generic.Series.S01E14.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 6044932994 Feb  3 10:29 Generic.Series.S01E15.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5830883123 Feb  3 10:33 Generic.Series.S01E16.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5994527200 Feb  3 10:38 Generic.Series.S01E17.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5654499477 Feb  3 10:40 Generic.Series.S01E18.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5819274076 Feb  3 10:43 Generic.Series.S01E19.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5709787284 Feb  3 10:47 Generic.Series.S01E20.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 6078461538 Feb  3 10:50 Generic.Series.S01E21.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5491920466 Feb  3 10:54 Generic.Series.S01E22.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 6344719550 Feb  3 10:57 Generic.Series.S01E23.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv
-rw-r--r-- 2 nobody users 5659502042 Feb  3 10:59 Generic.Series.S01E24.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv

[ZeroQI]

Dot separated filenames without separating spaces are evil but should work
Series specific scanner logs missing, a shame as it would indicate the resulting epusode number and why

[StancuFlorin]

This is the Generic Series.scanner.log file

=============================================================================================================================================================
Call: "Plex", path: "Generic Series", folder_show: "Generic Series", dirs (0), files (24)
=============================================================================================================================================================
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
=============================================================================================================================================================
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E01. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E01.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E0 . . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E02.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E03. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E03.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E04. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E04.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E05. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E05.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E06. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E06.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E07. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E07.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E08. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E08.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E09. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E09.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E10. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E10.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E11. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E11.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E1 . . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E12.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E13. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E13.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E14. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E14.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E15. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E15.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E16. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E16.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E17. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E17.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E18. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E18.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E19. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E19.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 0. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E20.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 1. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E21.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 2. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E22.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 3. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E23.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 4. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E24.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
=============================================================================================================================================================

[ZeroQI]

This confirm dot separated filenames are bad... Pretty sure Plex scanner doesn't support them...

If you add to the scrubbing list "TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE" it should work and no longer confuse the regex, line 147, variable WHACK_PRE_CLEAN_RAW

[StancuFlorin]

I tried the change you proposed (example master...StancuFlorin:Absolute-Series-Scanner:StancuFlorin-patch-1) without any luck

logs

=============================================================================================================================================================
Call: "Plex", path: "Generic Series", folder_show: "Generic Series", dirs (0), files (25)
=============================================================================================================================================================
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
=============================================================================================================================================================
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E01. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E01.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E0 . . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E02.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E03. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E03.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E04. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E04.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E05. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E05.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E06. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E06.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E07. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E07.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E08. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E08.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E09. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E09.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E10. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E10.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E11. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E11.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E1 . . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E12.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E13. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E13.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E14. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E14.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E15. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E15.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E16. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E16.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E17. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E17.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E18. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E18.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E19. . . - . . .0" "Generic.Series.S01E19.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 0. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E20.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 1. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E21.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 2. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E22.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 3. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E23.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 4. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E24.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
"Generic Series" s00e         1                         "ANIDB_RX-0" "E 6. . . - . .2.0" "Generic.Series.S01E26.1080p.BluRay.Remux.Dual-Audio.TrueHD.2.0.H.264-FLE.mkv"
=============================================================================================================================================================

[Josh-Rusch]

I just ran into this as well. It occurs when there are single digits in the file name.

If the number is a 0, it ends up confusing the season number to be 0. If the number is a 2, it ends up confusing all the episodes with a 2 in them, i.e. episode 2, episode 12, episodes 20-29, etc.

I have some logs if you need. I just did another quick test, and it happens with spaces as well. Not just dots.

### Grouping folders, not skipped as single series folder ###
Forced ID (source file) - source: "anidb", id: "XXXX"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e         1                         "SERIES_RX-1" "" "S01E01 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s00e         1     (Orig: s01e000    ) "SERIES_RX-1" "2" "S01E02 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e         3                         "SERIES_RX-1" "" "S01E03 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e         4                         "SERIES_RX-1" "" "S01E04 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e         5                         "SERIES_RX-1" "" "S01E05 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e         6                         "SERIES_RX-1" "" "S01E06 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e         7                         "SERIES_RX-1" "" "S01E07 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e         8                         "SERIES_RX-1" "" "S01E08 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e         9                         "SERIES_RX-1" "" "S01E09 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e        10                         "SERIES_RX-1" "" "S01E10 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e        11                         "SERIES_RX-1" "" "S01E11 Hello 2 World.mkv"
"Season 1 [anidb-XXXX]" s01e         1                         "SERIES_RX-1" "2" "S01E12 Hello 2 World.mkv"

[ZeroQI]

Index start a 0 so the impacted regec is line 111:
cic(r'(^|(?P.?)[ _.-])SE?(?P\d{1,4})[ _.-]?EP?(?P\d{1,4})(([-]|EP?|[ _.-]EP?)(?P\d{1,4}))?[ _.](?P<title>.?)$'), # 1 # s01e01-02 | ep01-ep02 | e01-02 | s01-e01 | s01 e01'(^|(?P.?)[ _.-]+)(?P\d{1,4})[ _.-]?of[ _.-]?\d{1,4}([ _.-]+(?P<title>.?))?$', # 2 # 01 of 08 (no stacking for this one ?)

[ZeroQI]

Because there are too many '2' in filenames in the folder, it trigger a safegard
All 12 episodes cannoy be the same title with a 2 inside

I was pondering reloving the wiord search and keeping only regex in cases such as these

[Josh-Rusch]

So, here's my attempt to fix this. I can create a pull request if you want but it's only been minimally tested. As plex won't be supporting custom scanners at all in the future, I've decided to just try to make plex's scanner work for me; I may not be testing this further. Hopefully, they at least have a new plug-in system for metadata agents working before they remove the legacy one.

https://github.com/aeeaan/Absolute-Series-Scanner/commit/723ae063b3337babb0895350b41b071c63c0ffcb

[ZeroQI]

Looks very good to me
Please do a pull request and i will approve it