Right now, TVDB most often lists pilot movies / episodes as S00E01. Anything with S00 gets dumped into a Specials folder and displayed in Plex as Specials episode 1.
When you have more than one special, Plex labels them episode 1, episode 2, episode 3. This causes confusion on how to watch a tv show chronologically. People see ep 1, ep 2, ep 3, ep4 and think - Okay watch all of this now. When all they need to watch is the pilot / the item labeled episode 1.
Since tvdb already lists pilots that came before season 1 as S00E01, there should be a feature where you can have a folder called pilot. Then label the pilot movie / pilot episode S00E01. Then plex can see that the folder is named pilot and either 1. add the episode to the top of Season 1, or 2. display a folder labeled Pilot and have the pilot in it. And since it is still 0001, it pulls from tvdb as normal.
Then people can still have a Specials folder.
Or just let us append “- pilot” at the end of the file and plex dump in at the top of season 1 or in its own folder that way it still pulls from tvdb with no changes needing to happen on tvdb. Itd still be s00e01 but if it has - pilot at the end it puts it at the top of season 1 or own folder.
I don’t know best way - I just don’t want my pilots in the specials folder labeled episode 1, followed by episode 2, episode 3, episode 4… and people get confused and ruin a 9 season show by watching end specials.
I can set tv library to not show seasons and then oldest to newest sort, but that’s kind of lame. I’d like to see the seasons. The specials show in order on deck but not auto play or no way to know when they come at a glance.
Edit
This thread seems to have good suggestions on this already. Can probably close and refer to this.
