Most television extras fall at the episode level, and then after that, the season level. Only the most generic of things fall at the series level. The apps offer them at the lower levels; I just wish the website would.
That approach will cause the same issue reported regarding episodes that belong to multiple series but now for movies: Either just one edition gets the extras or, to have both editions have the extras, one must either copy them to both places (and waste disk space) or apply the hardlink+samba filesystem remount workaround I detailed/discovered in the above link. The latter approach requires shear willpower and significant technical know-how.
Yes, you’re correct. I’m not sure where I came across the {version-} tagging concept. I just searched my library and didn’t find a trace of it, so I’m not tying to employ it. However, there’s still a distinction to be made between editions and functionally different versions of the same thing - and this is one of the consistency problems I face all the time:
- Movie libraries support {edition-} tagging, Series and Music libraries do not.
- Whereas Movie libraries auto-detect multiple but different instances of the same video, and a way to choose to play each one does technically exist, no such mechanism exists in Music libraries where the feature is most needed (for me, at least).
- Musicbrainz tagging can help properly separate originals and remasters, untangle different sources (CD, SACD, Blu-ray, DVD-A, DVD-V, download, etc.) but there isn’t a way to see those distinctions in any of the clients.
Consistently supporting {edition-} tagging in Series and Music libraries the same way Movie libraries do, at least in how options are presented in clients, would be fantastically amazing.
I’ve tried to apply Collections. The use case is for cartoons in a Series library - unfortunately, the behavior of a Collection is no different. Once Plex latches onto the inode of a file, it performs its match and won’t let go - you can’t get it to also-match a file to a different series via Collections because it’s already been catalogued in the database. I suspect Plex’s use of inodes as a primary key (somewhere) is buried so deep in the code, it’s not worth asking Plex to not use inodes. However, adding a column or a table to implement TVDB’s cross-referencing seems reasonable. The consistency factor here is, let’s say you’ve given a file two hardlinks, one for each series the episode belongs to, each time you re-scan the library, the episode ends up in the opposite series. Not fun. Example: All Tom & Jerry episodes are MGM Cartoons, not all MGM Cartoons are Tom & Jerry, and TVDB catalogued all Tom & Jerry episodes in both series. Easy-peasy.
