For some series, there are “special” episodes that take place between the main episodes. For instance, Jojo’s bizarre adventure has an episode 13.5 special episode. This episode won’t be watched in it’s “correct” order if someone is just letting plex play through all the episodes. However, I would s…

Google “symbolic link”/“hard link”. Btw. if your special episode has the right “release date” set on it, it will appear in On Deck at the right moment (but only if you’re not binging a series.) Side remark: That’s one of the reasons why I don’t binge. I always have 3 to 5 series I am watching conc…

ahh yes, a symbolic link is what i’m looking for (i think, bit confused about the concept of inodes lol) Also I don’t wanna stop people using my plex from binging if they want to, even if it is bad for them lol

The biggest problem is that even if you do a sym-link to it you CAN’T put it in the series folder without a SIGNIFICANT compromise. Episode 13.5 will just be treated by Plex as a different version of episode 13. So it’ll EITHER play Episode 13 OR episode 13.5. So you’d have to name it episode 14, Ep…

yeah tbh i just assumed that was already a feature, if it isn’t already that’s disappointing

Link to special episodes from within seasons

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Link to special episodes from within seasons

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