Make Plex self-consistent

[tom80H]

@Philoplexer

I’ll have to research how to pull logs from the Plex app for the Amazon Firestick, which is where I last noticed the problem.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/201573117-android-android-tv-fire-tv-logs/

@Philoplexer

Regarding the extras not being available uniformly across all clients, the toughest one to cope with is the webpage not presenting extras in series. One would intuitively expect that the website on the machine hosting the database, the PMS service, and the content to actually have the most detailed, reliable, and visible representation of the content, but it doesn’t. Very odd. Whether working on the server or on another machine on the network, the webpage is the first point of testing to make sure something new got added right - it’s easy to forget that you can’t check extras for series that way.

Plex Web will display local extras for TV Shows – but not for seasons or episodes.

@Philoplexer

The bug where movie extras don’t work when multiple editions of the movie exist adds another dimension to the issue.

Local extras work just fine with editions. By design you should keep different editions in their own top-level folder – if you mix multiple editions in the same top-level movie folder, none of them will display local extras.

@Philoplexer

Regarding the {version-XYZ} feature, I’ve only seen this work in scenarios where we’re talking about a video might be on the server as both an MP4 and an MKV, which isn’t something I come across often.

That’s not how different-quality versions work. It appears you’re trying to apply the handling of editions (different cuts) to versions by appending the file names with some tag. Plex doesn’t have a concept for a {version-...} tag in folder/file names.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200381043-multi-version-movies/

@Philoplexer

• However, I do come across videos that get remastered. Let’s say I have “SeriesName S1E2 {version-Original}.mkv” and “SeriesName S1E2 {version-Remastered}.mkv”. A Series library won’t display both options like a Movies library will, regardless of the client. If you’re on a web client, you can click the “…” button, choose “Play Version”, and it’ll display a list of the version options, However, it doesn’t display the version names I provided, just some base stats about the videos - not much to go by.

Each episode can have different-quality versions and Plex will recognize those just fine. The Play Version modal will display some key characteristics of the video (bitrate and resolution). There’s a separate suggestion, discussing for Plex to display more information about each version in the Play Version modal.
You seem to be trying to mix editions and versions – that’s not a thing.

@Philoplexer

• If we’re talking audio libraries, I’ve not seen the {version-XYZ} tag work at all. Maybe that’s because Musicbrainz can theoretically provide a superior distinction.

See above… there’s no such thing as a {version-XYZ} tag in Plex. Plex currently doesn’t have a concept for different editions/qualities of albums (see duplicate suggestion linked in my previous response).

@Philoplexer

Regarding TV series cross-referencing, I mean something different. If I’m reading the post you linked to correctly, they’re asking for a way to weave several series and possibly movies into a cohesive watching sequence (either by release date or by the narrative’s own time order). Cool idea. I was looking for something simpler, something to alleviate users from delving into the world of hardlinks and recursive filesystem workarounds: Multi-series episode matching BUG

In that case, this should be the suggestion for you (though it doesn’t seem there’s much interest in this feature at this point).
With the example given in your other thread, you might want to consider using Collections to group episodes or shows without the need to deal with any of those duplications.