TL;DR:
Season 1 & 2 follow DVD Order, Season 3 follows Aired Order. Please let me set each season’s episode ordering individually, rather than for the whole show.
Hi!
I’ve run into a limitation while trying to get my episodes named correctly, according to TVDB.
In my case, I am trying to match the episode meta data of Season 1 & 2 of ‘Duck Dodgers’ which are following DVD Order (13 episodes), however TVDB’s data for Season 3 under DVD Order does not have all the episodes (only 10) so I have my Season 3 organised on my file system to follow ‘Aired Order’ (22 episodes).
This has resulted in not being able to season 3 to name the episodes correctly, since the advanced settings for the episode ordering can only be set for the entire show.
This, and other instances I’ve run into would greatly benefit by just being able to select the episode ordering type per season, rather than per show.
What do you mean? That never happens. If the file is named S03E01 it will be in Season 3no matter what Order you have set, If you have set Absolute Order then it will have No Metadata, If you have DVD Order it will have the data from DVD Ordering, if you have Aired Order it will have the data from that order. Plex has NO way of moving episodes to places different from what the file is named as.
But the episode on TVdb being assigned to different seasons depending on the ordering is exactly like the OP is wanting. Now you might run into the problem of having S01E13 in Absolute Order being the same as S00E01 in Aired Order but I don’t see how that would be a problem except for things like Trakt Sync because it would mark the episode as watched if 1 was watched & the other wasn’t, but that’s an unsupported use case so it shouldn’t matter. If the Watchlist updated from plays on the server it could be a problem too, but it doesn’t either, so, again, not a problem.
The best solution would be to fix this on TVdb because it sounds like TVdb has a problem that nobody has fixed yet. You can do it with a free account. I used to do this stuff a lot on TVdb until I had some bad experiences with their mods & removed all my contributions
But even still I think this would be a great benefit. I still think the Episode ID Matching suggestion solves this better, but it seems like a simple thing to implement
Futurama episode “Godfellas” has the following assignments:
TVDb (DVD) → s03e20
TVDb (Aired) / TMDb → s04e08
My point was that your suggestion will be problematic in such a scenario – e.g. if you’ve configured the show to use TVDb (DVD) ordering except for season 4… in that case the “Godfellas” episode will be displayed in both season 3 and 4.
Not saying I cannot see scenarios where your suggestion might help – just saying it’s making things rather complicated.
It doesn’t though. Unless the Watchlist is linked with play status from the library, which in another thread we were pretty much told that the watchlist has no links to library data & will remain that way.
The only problem is that the 2 places will get metadata from the same source. As far as functionality that doesn’t provide any problems. if someone chose to do that that way they would be consciously making the choice to have that episode in there twice. The only person that affects is them
