So I know that the TVDB has air-time data for television show episodes, and I was wondering why this couldn’t be pulled into plex in addition to just air-date data. To give you an idea of why this makes a difference - if you created a playlist and sorted by air-date, plex will then use the TV show name as a secondary sort characteristic, and episodes that aired on the same day will sort by alphabetical order, rather than according to air-time. So let’s say you wanted to watch every episode of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report in appropriate historical order. You could create a smart playlist for unwatched episodes of those two shows, sorted by air-date, but it’ll get the order wrong, as Colbert Report episodes (which aired after the Daily Show) will end up ordered before Daily Show episodes because it appears first alphabetically.
Similarly, if someone wanted to watch all of Buffy and Angel in the order the episodes aired, they would run into the same problem during periods when the shows ran on the same day - in fact there are two part episodes that started on Buffy and ended the same evening on Angel, that would end up being arranged in the wrong order. Can plex integrate the air-date data that I know TVDB has so that arranging by air-date will order these shows correctly?
