Absolute Order Problem for "One Piece"

[Wappelkopp]

Server Version#: 1.23.1.4571

Hi,

I recently started changing my animes to absolute order. I don’t know why, but somehow PleX doesn’t manage to match the episode names right for the series “One Piece”. I tried some things out. Before, some episode names were assigned, but there were huge gaps over wide numbers of episodes with the only pattern that there were many episodes in a row unassigned. At least the specials were assigned correctly. Now, not even one episode or special is assigned a name anymore, although the series is matched correctly.

How are my settings?

• Specials are saved for example “…\TV Shows\One Piece\Specials\One Piece - S00E04 - Abenteuer auf der Spiralinsel.mkv”
• Episodes are saved for example “…\TV Shows\One Piece\One Piece - E01 - Hier kommt Ruffy, der künftige König der Piraten.mkv” (I applied the same structure for InuYasha, where everything works without a problem; This is what FileBot Renamer suggested using {plex})
• In the settings for One Piece: Order Episodes (don’t know if that is the original setting name, I use PleX in German language) “TheTVDB (Absolute)”.
• In my library settings: Scanner “Plex TV Series”, Agent “Plex TV Series”

Do you have any idea on how to solve this?

[FordGuy61]

@Wappelkopp

Episodes are saved for example “…\TV Shows\One Piece\One Piece - E01 - Hier kommt Ruffy, der künftige König der Piraten.mkv”

Try S01E01 instead of E01.

Plex documentation: Naming & Organizing Your TV Shows

Standard, Season-Based Shows

Most television shows have episodes organized into seasons. To name season-based shows create files with the season and episode notation sXXeXX :

• /TV Shows/ShowName/Season 02/ShowName – s02e17 – Optional_Info.ext

This is only an example. The important bit in the file name is the appropriate season and episode number notation s02e17 which in this example means Season 2 Episode 17 It does not matter if you use dashes, dots or just spaces.

@Wappelkopp

Specials are saved for example “…\TV Shows\One Piece\Specials\One Piece - S00E04 - Abenteuer auf der Spiralinsel.mkv”

There are no Specials listed for the Absolute order of the show at TheTVDB.com. ワンピース - TheTVDB.com

I’m not sure exactly how Plex will handle files in a Specials / Season 00 folder. It will probably list them as episode 1, episode 2, etc, but without metadata, as there is nothing at TheTVDB for it to match against.

[Wappelkopp]

Try S01E01 instead of E01

Doesn’t change anything. I had that before at some point. If I move everything in a Season 01 folder named that way, I get metadata but only for the “real” first season, not for the rest.

There are no Specials listed for the Absolute order of the show at TheTVDB.com. ワンピース - TheTVDB.com
They seem to have it in “Unassigned Episodes”… Strange thing.

Is there any workaround? Else I must switch back to “Aired Date” but this ordering by seasons is a bit useless in this case I think.

[FordGuy61]

@Wappelkopp

I get metadata but only for the “real” first season, not for the rest.

Thoughts:

• Use three digits for all episode numbers.
• Configure Plex for absolute ordering.
• You may have to Plex Dance the entire show to pick up the changes. You can always just add in a few shows to make sure things work, then add the rest.

I ran a test on my system:
PMS v1.23.2.4600; Synology DS918+

Naming & organization:

Edit show and configure for Absolute ordering:

Result:

[FordGuy61]

@Wappelkopp

Is there any workaround? Else I must switch back to “Aired Date” but this ordering by seasons is a bit useless in this case I think.

Regarding Specials…

I do not see a workaround when using Absolute ordering.

The files I place in Season 00 show up as Episode 1, Episode 2, etc.

I cannot get Plex to read local metadata from the files, even when using MP4 container and telling Plex to read local metadata.