Hello,
I am rather new to Plex Media Server, however not to correctly naming files/folders/series appropriately in order to better manage them. I have searched through a few threads and have run into an issue. I can correctly see all the standards episodes by season all nice, neat, and tidy just the way I like them. However, Plex will not display any of the Doctor Who specials in the same folder as the other, regular episodes. I tried renaming them as posted on a much earlier thread, however this has not proven fruitful. Curious if anyone else has figured this little nutter out yet so that I can physically see/view/play those specials through Plex.
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how to name and organize specials in tv shows:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/779113/#Comment_779113
all canonized Dr. Who (2005) specials on TheTVDB:
http://thetvdb.plexapp.com/?tab=season&seriesid=78804&seasonid=26260&lid=7
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I see how to rename the specials but I do not know what to rename each of them specifically to in my folders so that they can appear in Plex. Once they appear I can play around with Plex editing to properly editing. Does anyone have the listing of all the specials? I have about 14 of them but can barely find more then the first four specials naming convention
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I finally got it to display within Plex, here is how I did it:
First, place all your specials into a single folder within your folder that houses all your regular episodes. Use the following naming convention:
Doctor Who 2005 S00 EXX
EXX - Refers to the specific special
For example: Doctor Who 2005 S00E02 refers to âThe Christmas Invasion.â S00E04 refers to âThe Runaway Bride.â You must use the TVDB episode numbers on the left hand side of that website to properly match them up.
Once this is complete, simply refresh the top-site of Doctor Who, and you will now see in Plex all those specials.
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That still isnât exactly correct. Why arenât you using the naming standards? Typically when people have them named the way you do in your post the original series and the 2005 series will become one once youâve added both of them.
The correct naming should be Doctor Who (2005) - sXXeXX - Episode Name
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And just another tip:
Even though you add them in as specials in the correct place they will not show up in the different season folders in between the episodes they aired between.
However, when watching the show from the On Deck feature they will appear in the correct order based on the airdate for the episode.
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New issue: Whenever I click on the specials, they all show and play as normal. However, each of them say which episode they are, âThe Christmas Invasion,â is episode 2, âThe Runaway Bride,â is episode 4, so on and so forth. I tried editing the data through Plex but it still doesnât work very well. I did follow the newer naming scheme of âDoctor Who (2005) - s00e02 - Christmas Invasionâ (for exact example) and still it does not display well in the actual title other than to tell me âEpisode #â
Is the rest of the details for the episode displaying correctly? Normally. when you get just âEpisode XXâ it means Plex hasnât finished downloading the metadata for that show yet.
It is also possible that if you just kept renaming the files in the same directory that the scanner doesnât see the full name change. To fix this you would temporarily move the Specials folder out of the Doctor Who directory, Rescan the Series (To get the specials marked as trash), Empty Trash (To remove the specials), Clean Bundles (Delete old metadata associated with them), Move the Specials directory back, and rescan again.
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i named mine exactly as techmattr described, but i have an issue. S0E16 and 17 combine as one episode. i cannot split them apart. Plex sees them as two versions, like HD and SD, but that isnt a good solution. There is no option to âsplit apartâ.
help!
Click on âInfoâ and show the file names please!
DOH! i figured it out. the were both labled S0E16. im an idiot. sorry.
You still havenât got it right: S00E16 is proper.
Yea i know, but i had episode 17 labled as âs00e16 - the end of time (2)â . The issue was the the 16 should have been a 17.
Thanks to all. This thread was a big help. The link to the TVDB helped a lot, because I couldnât figure out the episode numbers. I had them confused with story numbers. This cleared it up. I still had to enter many of the titles, dates and descriptions manually by copying them from the TVDB, though. Plex only found about half.
Has anyone figured out a way to get them to play in order?
i have tried taking specials out of their own folder and renaming them for example Doctor Who (2005) > Season 05 > E00⊠this dosnât work.
However, the newest special Doctor Who (2005) Twice Upon A Time, i can put directly into Doctor Who (2005) > Season 11 > Twice Upon A Time, and it plays in orderâŠ
To be a bit clearer, i want to open plex and click on doctor who (2005) press play and all the episodes play in original air date order. this is the only show out of the 100âs of shows i have that doesnât work that way.
See above post concerning viewing in order of airdateâŠ
thank u, that really helped, my head was blowing up of headaches, two of the episodes were showing fine but the rest was like Exx, moving the folder then moving it back fixed it
