Odd entries in "#" category of TV series & Movies

[SamuelWN]

Describe the bug
The "#" category contains some erroneous entries for all Libraries on my server that I have checked ("TV Shows," "Movies," & "Anime," etc.). Rather than only listing entries that begin with a number / special character, seasons and individual episodes (sometimes from other libraries) are included as well.

I am accessing Pasta via the website rather than running a local instance.
I have been using Pasta for a while, and do not recall seeing this in the past, so I believe this may be a new issues.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to pastatool.com
2. Login & select a library (e.g. "TV Series")
3. Select "#"
4. Many odd entries.

Expected behavior
Only numeric / special character results.

Screenshots

Episodes listed as Series:

Episodes listed as Seasons:

Wrong library (File is from Anime Library)
Anime Flac file listed as TV Series:

Anime episodes & Flac appearing as Movie:

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Browser: Pasta was accesssed via Chrome
• OS: Plex server is running Ubuntu 18.04
• Plex Version: 4.57.2

Additional context
I have tried:

• Restarting the Plex Server process
• On Pasta: Logging out & logging back in

but the issue persisted.

[cglatot]

You are correct - there are some very weird things happening with the # selector from Plex. I can easily reproduce the same results as you.
I'll have a look into this and hopefully have a fix in the next release. Not sure when that will be, though, as I haven't had any time for PASTA recently. It will definitely be a priority, though.

[SamuelWN]

Alrighty, useful to know that it's not just something weird about my setup. Feel free to let me know if there's any additional data I could send that might be useful for debugging.

[cglatot]

Thanks for the offer, I'll let you know if I need some additional testing - but I can recreate pretty much every scenario you outlined, so I should be able to resolve it myself when I can find some time to get around to it :)

[Animorphs]

Hey @cglatot, not sure how your investigation into this has been going, but this isn't an issue with with Pasta, but with the Plex API itself returning the seemingly irrelevant results (API endpoint /library/sections/[libraryNumber]/firstCharacter/%23). I've raised it with the Plex devs, so hopefully they can get it fixed soon.

[Animorphs]

Update: now fixed, but not yet released.

[Animorphs]

@cglatot this has been fixed: (Library) Requesting the list of items starting with special characters could give unexpected results (#13251)

[cglatot]

Confirmed that Plex has fixed this. It now shows what you would expect!