Mark both episodes played when watching dual episode files

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Kids shows often have 2 episodes per file. They will select and watch episode 7, then plex plays the show.S01E07E08, then plex plays the next episode, which is episode 8, so they watch show.S01E07E08 again.

Is there anyway to make plex mark both as watched and continue to episode 9 automatically?

I dont care if they select say episode 8, and the file is S01E07E08 and they have to skip thru/watch episode 7. I just want the back to back watching to be consistant. Though a chapter scanning option could help alleviate that for properly labeled episodes(which is a mixed bag I know) or an option to just play exactly at the 50% mark.

Either way that is secondary, the primary request is just label both as watched and continue to the actual unwatched episode.

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Following the naming convention in this support article and all episodes that are together will be marked as played.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/#toc-4

Edit: Also, no reason for this to be a feature request as what you are asking for already exists, so you might want to remove your vote so it’s not wasted.

-Shark2k

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Well this feature is broken, and has been broken for a long time if this is the case. I have talked to others and this happens to them as well.

As far as I can tell this is not a current feature. Or its very broken.

EDIT: Having a “Multiple Episodes in a Single File” IE: show.name.s01e03e04.title.mkv, which is the correct format according to the link provided, and the format I’ve used for years. I will see both episodes 3 and 4 in plex, I can select either and they will play the same file, as expected. The problem is marking both as watched. If I start episode 3 it will play the e03e04 file. When it completes plex will show me episode 4., but its the same file, so I watch the same file again.

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Except it’s not… the example given by the OP and yours are missing a - to indicate the episode range

Using your example:

show.name.s01e03e04.title.mkv  <- your example
show.name.s01e03-e04.title.mkv <- should be
show.name.s01e03-04.title.mkv  <- seems to be a new option
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Ok your right there is a “-” but I can tell you plex detects it either way, and I have files that use all three of the examples you have listed, probably more. Plex knows all those naming formats, and recognizes them.

The file naming isnt the issue as far as I can tell, plex see’s both episodes in the single file. The issue seems to be from what other people have told me that its the client that marks files as “watched” so the client marks episode 3 as watched, then it requests episode 4, which if you have read just starts the dual episode over again.

If this is the case and it is the client that marks episodes as watched, then maybe they will never fix this.

This happens on my roku, I havent tested on other devices, but I think it also happens on android app.

EDIT: Ok, so I just tested the names with “show.name.s01e03-e04.title.mkv” and “show.name.s01e03e04.title.mkv”. It works on PC with both naming formats, but not on Roku, which is why Im posting this request. So this should still be a feature request as, the roku doesnt mark the dual episodes as watched. So looks like the info I got from discord was correct and this is a client side thing.