Displaying series+movies together difficulties

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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Hello all,

I am having some difficulties with Plex recognising and displaying my media.
I have added Anime/Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex/Season 00/Ghost in the Shell (1995) S00E01.mkv as per the naming convention in TVDB and it not being displayed in specials (it’s actually come up as something completely different, Tachikomatic Days). Is there a setting I should have changed somewhere for this to work? Or have I forgotten something or done something incorrectly? I’m really stuck and any help is really appreciated, I have other series & movies that will probably need fixing too…

Thanks all.

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if you are treating it as an episode of the show then it needs to be named the same as the show, the “movie title” in this case becomes the name of the episode.

the proper way to name it as an episode of the show would be

Anime/Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex/Season 00/Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex S00E01.mkv

or

Anime/Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex/Season 00/Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex S00E01 Ghost in the Shell (1995).mkv

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Thanks for the help, I’ve got it sorted now. Much appreciated.

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If you are using TheTVDB as your reference, you want to set the Episode Ordering to “TheTVDB (Aired)”.
This can be done

  1. globally for the whole library, which then becomes the default
  2. at the highest level of each show, by editing the show. So you can override the library default on a show-by-show basis.
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Believe it or not this is actually what I did and what fixed the problem. Those movies are now visible with the series but the downside to this is that the movie posters are not displayed, its just a landscape screenshot.

Hopefully your advice will help some other poor ■■■■■■■ like me in the future.

Final thoughts in re to this, maybe the devs can refine Plex further to have movie posters available too in future.

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It is now just a series episode, not a movie. Hence why there is no poster.

I solved that dilemma another way: with a collection.
Reasoning is that the movies are in no way connected to the series. They are more like a re-telling of parts of the series. Hence they are not required to be watched between or after a certain episode and are more loosely connected.
That’s why I think a collection is more apt.
see How to add movies in a TV library? - #4 by OttoKerner

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Will movies still be recognised if they are named using the TVdb specials naming conventions? If so I might do a rescan to add them as movies to a shows collection.

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anything with a SxxExx notation in it will be ignored in a movie library. and anything without it will be ignored in a tv library.

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