No "trailers" button for newly added TV Shows

[pmac 143]

Is there a way to manually trigger a search for trailers for TV shows, or something that might be causing newly added shows to not automatically search for a trailer?

The last 18 series added to my library don't have the "Trailers" button, like all of the other TV series in my library. Newly added movies all seem to have a trailer available, including quite a few that were added after the TV series with missing trailers.

I checked the tvshow.nfo and there is no <trailer> section in the one's with missing trailers.

Any ideas why this might be happening?

I'm referring to the "Trailers" button on a series/movie detail screen that just links to a Youtube video, not locally-stored trailers or any separate plugins.

[Luke 42078]

Hi there, what series metadata fetchers are enabled on the library?

[Jdiesel 1431]

Do those shows have trailers on the metadata provider site? I think YouTube trailer links come from themoviedb, TV shows included. Try searching on themoviedb.org and see if those shows have trailers.

[pmac 143]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Hi there, what series metadata fetchers are enabled on the library?

TheTVDB and The Open Movie Database

[Luke 42078]

Just now, pmac said:

TheTVDB and The Open Movie Database

OK. Only MovieDb has trailer urls.

[pmac 143]

1 hour ago, Jdiesel said:

Do those shows have trailers on the metadata provider site? I think YouTube trailer links come from themoviedb, TV shows included. Try searching on themoviedb.org and see if those shows have trailers.

Yes, they do have trailers. I'll try adding that as a metadata source; I wasn't aware TMDB also had series on it.

[pmac 143]

4 minutes ago, Luke said:

OK. Only MovieDb has trailer urls.

Okay, thanks. I'll enable TMDB. I must've had it enabled in the past and then somehow disabled it, since my other series all have trailers.

If I manually run a library scan will that pull the missing trailer links? or will I need to do a full metadata refresh or something?

EDIT: Nevermind, "search for missing metadata" did the trick. Thanks!

Edited April 18, 2025 by pmac