# Remaning not respecting s0xe0x and saving files as
**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160
**Category:** Metadata and Renaming
**Created:** [October 10, 2023, 3:04am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160 "2023-10-10T03:04:35Z")
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### Author:  [@John\_Freiman](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/John_Freiman)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 3:04am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160/1 "2023-10-10T03:04:36Z")
I have been having issues when I’m renaming series which include epsisode titles which are similar or the same from previous (or other seasons, ie, The Block, MasterChef, etc), so I know now, to remove the episode titles before adding them to MCEBuddy.
I also make sure I clean/remove any metadata in the file first, because even though I have “Overwrite Metadata from Filename” checked, it 100% never ignores the metadate.
So that brings me to an ussue that happened yesterday.
I added 3 episodes e01, e02 and e03 to MCEBuddy and my naming rules were ignored/gave odd results.
the episode SeriesTitle s01e02.mkv was saved as SeriesTitle - s01e01 - titlename.mkv and episode 2 was named SeriesTitle - s01e01(1) - titlename.mkv
[First Ladies of Hip-Hop.zip](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/uploads/short-url/hg3D0ejW8T8Su2DWMbVsfKjA85m.zip) (100.3 KB)
Why did this happen?
(I’m unhappy with the x265 quality - so sporadic and not reliable - ANOTHER topic) so I’ve just been using the matching and renaming functions for the past 6 months or so.)
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160/2 "2023-10-10T18:38:54Z")
If you look through the log files you’ll see what’s going on.
In this case, MCEBuddy extracted the season/episode information from the filename correctly. It also extracts the original broadcast date/time from the file metadata.
> 2023-10-09T03:24:17 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → **Video Tags extracted from file/name metadata →**
> Title: First Ladies of Hip-Hop
> SubTitle:
> Description: The story of how women in hip-hop fought for their voices to be heard.
> Network:
> Network Affiliate:
> Parental Rating:
> Media Credits: BBC TV;BBC Two;
> Genres: Music
> **Season: 1**
> **Episode: 2**
> Banner:
> Banner URL:
> IMDB Id:
> MovieDB Id:
> TVDB Id:
> Is Movie: False
> Is Sports: False
> **OriginalBroadcastDateTime: 2023-10-07T14:35:00**
> RecordedDateTime: 1900-01-01T00:00:00
> SeriesPremiereDate: 2023-05-05T00:00:00
> CopyProtected: False
> SageTV FileID:
> SageTV MediaFileID:
Then it goes to TVDB and looks up the information looking for a match and it tries to match the information by the Original broadcast date **and** you’ve checked the option to `Prioritize matching by Air date` in the metadata corrections page of Conversion task settings.
TVDB return S1/E1 for this episode when matching by First aired date; **and** you’ve checked the option to `Overwrite the metadata from TVDB` in your MCEBuddy metadata correction settings, so it takes the _wrong_ information provided by TVDB.
> INFORMATION\> 2023-10-09T03:24:17 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Downloading Series details
> **2023-10-09T03:24:17 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Overwrite title from internet → TVDB**
> INFORMATION\> 2023-10-09T03:24:17 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Recording Type Show
> INFORMATION\> 2023-10-09T03:24:17 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Checking TheTVDB
> → Looking for Premiere Year information in text
> → Looking for Premiere Year information in text
> → Looking for Premiere Year information in text
> **→ Found series match on TVDB by Original Broadcast Date. Updated video tags →**
> Title: First Ladies of Hip-Hop
> SubTitle: Episode 1
> Description: The women behind the beats - hip-hop’s great women pioneers always struggled for recognition, both in Britain and the US. Now they share their stories of how they shaped the genre.
> Network: BBC Two
> Network Affiliate:
> Parental Rating:
> Media Credits: BBC TV;BBC Two;
> Genres: Documentary
> Season: 1
> Episode: 1
> Banner: C:\Program Files\MCEBuddy2x\cache\First Ladies of Hip-Hop.jpg
> Banner URL:
> IMDB Id:
> MovieDB Id:
> TVDB Id: 440417
> Is Movie: False
> Is Sports: False
> OriginalBroadcastDateTime: 2023-10-07T14:35:00
> RecordedDateTime: 1900-01-01T00:00:00
> SeriesPremiereDate: 2023-10-07T00:00:00
> CopyProtected: False
> SageTV FileID:
> SageTV MediaFileID:
Basically wrong TVDB data and configuring MCEBuddy to force overwrite the metadata information as provided by TVDB is causing your issues. I suspect if you turn off this forcing it may work depending on what TVDB returns or change MCEBuddy’s metadata correction settings to not match up Original broadcast date.
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### Author:  [@John\_Freiman](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/John_Freiman)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160/3 "2023-10-11T01:18:24Z")
Thanks for your reply. I looked at the metadata from all the three original files and see that the metadata wasn’t removed/stripped when I used Handbrake to peform the transcode.
I will uncheck “Prioritize Air Date Matching” - since that really can be a nuisance…
However, unless a specific series isn’t in TVDB, I have it overwritten the metadata from Internet - TVDB because the series name can change slightly between services.
One may include an apostrophe, the series premiere date could be different, etc. and then my Television Folder becomes a mess and difficult to manage.
Thanks for checking out the logs and I’ll change and save my Handbrake profiles to not pass through metadata. \*\* that said, shouldn’t “Overwrite metadata from filename” ignore ALL metadata???
BTW (When I look at the metadata using Windows File Properties, each file clearly states Episode 1, 2 or 3…
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2023, 2:08am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160/4 "2023-10-11T02:08:03Z")
Your issue is this box (and the `Prioritize air date matching`):
That takes precedence over everything else. Disable it if you don’t want TVDB to overwrite your metadata
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### Author:  [@John\_Freiman](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/John_Freiman)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2023, 10:23pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160/5 "2023-10-11T22:23:23Z")
thanks, I’ll uncheck that box. That will save me hours of time when transcoding folders and seasons of series from older content recorded and stored from WMC.
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### Author:  [@John\_Freiman](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/John_Freiman)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2023, 11:28pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160/6 "2023-10-11T23:28:17Z")
Then can you please help explain why s04e03 is being changed to s01e03?
[The Block 2003 - s04e03 - Episode 3.mp4-PlayOn TRIM-2023-10-11T16-20-44.log](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/uploads/short-url/vzpW0HtmzVkAUyolIl486mKoKOV.log) (2.8 MB)
and also help my fix why these episodes aren’t being matched with the proper episode subtitle (episode title)?
_ **Updated** _
removed the “Episode #” from the filenames and it’s now replacing the subtitle with the subtitle from TVDB.
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### Author:  [@John\_Freiman](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/John_Freiman)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160/7 "2023-10-12T02:34:00Z")
is there a setting in either Config or Profiles I can change to FORCE and or BLOCK MCEBuddy from reading file Metadata?
[The Block - s04e23 - Episode 23.mp4-Instant MKV-2023-10-11T19-12-26.log](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/uploads/short-url/l93lObZjbD24cpLwJlhMdTkNUOU.log) (727.6 KB)
[The Block - s04e24 - Episode 24.mp4-Instant MKV-2023-10-11T19-15-00.log](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/uploads/short-url/euuI4NMpkwhDhyCIDnBkTCYlg8d.log) (721.2 KB)
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### Author:  [@Goose](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/Goose)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2023, 12:24pm UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160/8 "2023-10-12T12:24:32Z")
Once again, you still haven’t disabled TVDB overwriting the metadata:
> 2023-10-11T19:15:02 MCEBuddy.MetaData.VideoMetaData → Overwrite title from internet → TVDB
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### Author:  [@John\_Freiman](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/John_Freiman)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/remaning-not-respecting-s0xe0x-and-saving-files-as/5160/9 "2024-01-08T03:18:16Z")
THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
> Added option to force metadata lookup by Episode name, **Season/Episode No** or Original air date under Conversion task → Expert settings → Metadata corrections
Now I won’t have to manually rename every reality show which reuses the same episode names season after season!!!