Double episodes

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I know this question has been asked many many times but I just can’t get this to work. Airwolf Season 1 comes with 13 episodes but the first 2 are a double episode so the naming guide has these as Airwolf S01E01-E02. When I put this into Plex it is only showing episode 1 and then the next episode is episode 3 which makes it look like Episode 2 is missing. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong as I am following the naming guide

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you got the naming guide wrong.
correct naming should be:
TV shows folder > Airwolf (1984) > Season 01 > Airwolf (1984) S01E01-02.ext

notice there’s no E for the trailing episode! (E01-02 instead of E01-E02)!

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Thanks. I’ve tried that but it hasn’t worked

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can you please describe the steps you took after renaming and your exact file name?

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@tom80H said:
you got the naming guide wrong.
correct naming should be:
TV shows folder > Airwolf (1984) > Season 01 > Airwolf (1984) S01E01-02.ext

notice there’s no E for the trailing episode! (E01-02 instead of E01-E02)!

I appreciate that you are only trying to help but…
If you’re tell someone they are naming stuff wrong you may want to make sure it’s not you that’s wrong? https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220687-naming-series-season-based-tv-shows/
The trailing “E” should be there… I wont even mention that for that particular show the year is not required. If the TVDB doesn’t show a year then adding one may not cause an issue but its still wrong. Airwolf - TheTVDB.com.
See the example in the first link how “Heroes” has no year.

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@tom80H said:
you got the naming guide wrong.
correct naming should be:
TV shows folder > Airwolf (1984) > Season 01 > Airwolf (1984) S01E01-02.ext

notice there’s no E for the trailing episode! (E01-02 instead of E01-E02)!

As per support page the correct naming:

Please note the Highlighted text at the bottom of this page

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@edwardr4 said:
I know this question has been asked many many times but I just can’t get this to work. Airwolf Season 1 comes with 13 episodes but the first 2 are a double episode so the naming guide has these as Airwolf S01E01-E02. When I put this into Plex it is only showing episode 1 and then the next episode is episode 3 which makes it look like Episode 2 is missing. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong as I am following the naming guide

I know this may not help your exact situation, but using Sonarr and Radarr to grab your content; it automatically renames your files so you have less headaches. Filebot is extremely good at getting it right so you have less issues.

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@HitsVille said:

@tom80H said:
you got the naming guide wrong.
correct naming should be:
TV shows folder > Airwolf (1984) > Season 01 > Airwolf (1984) S01E01-02.ext

notice there’s no E for the trailing episode! (E01-02 instead of E01-E02)!

I appreciate that you are only trying to help but…
If you’re tell someone they are naming stuff wrong you may want to make sure it’s not you that’s wrong? https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220687-naming-series-season-based-tv-shows/
The trailing “E” should be there… I wont even mention that for that particular show the year is not required. If the TVDB doesn’t show a year then adding one may not cause an issue but its still wrong. Airwolf - TheTVDB.com.
See the example in the first link how “Heroes” has no year.

You will run into more headaches if you do not include the year in the folder name.
Take a look here.
https://www.thetvdb.com/?string=heroes&tab=listseries&function=Search
While some people may see an issue with Plex not matching. I see an issue where Plex will make an incorrect match. It’s much more likely without the year in the folder title…

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@HitsVille said:
If you’re tell someone they are naming stuff wrong you may want to make sure it’s not you that’s wrong?

Ouch… you caught me. Thanks for the save!

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I renamed everything according to what it should be, refreshed the library and its still wrong

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Can you provide the exact path\filename.ext?
An example would be

Airwolf (1984)
..Season 01
....Airwolf (1984) - s01e01 - Shadow of the Hawke (1).mkv
....Airwolf (1984) - s01e02 - Shadow of the Hawke (2).mkv

or

Airwolf (1984)
..Season 01
....Airwolf (1984) - s01e01-e02 - Shadow of the Hawke.mkv

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Failing anything else it may be worth trying the Plex Dance for the show.

The Plex Dance®:

  1. remove show/movie from library
  2. update library
  3. empty trash
  4. clean bundles
    https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392106-Library-Actions <— update library, empty trash, clean bundles
  5. bring names and structures into compliance/ or the ultimate bundle reboot operation
  6. replace corrected show/movie into library
  7. update library

All Steps. In Order. No Shortcuts.

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I have the exact same issue. Mine is Miami Vice. It starts with a double episode in one file (though Plex correctly shows it as Episode 1 and 2). When I then try to play episode 3, Plex will actually play Episode 4.

Plex will also use the associated Episode 3 subtitles on the actually played episode 4 file, and so forth down the line.

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Without further information I would have to assume that your expisode files are not correctly named. i.e. episode 4 actually named as episode 3. Which would be why you would watch what is actually expisode 4 with epidose 3 titles whilst plex is telling you its expisode 3.

I would also assume, you are missing the media file for episode 3.