Movie/TV Extra's

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I know for a while, there isn’t an easy way to set the order of extra’s. I usually like to order them by what is shown on my disc(s). What is the best method to sort extra’s?

thanks

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Do you mean adding them as local extras?

https://support.plex.tv/articles/local-files-for-trailers-and-extras/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/local-files-for-tv-show-trailers-and-extras/

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I think this bug is still there: Extras Not in Any Sort Order

I gave up on having my extras in any order but I don’t have that many so it wasn’t really a big deal for me.

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Local extras should actually be grouped by categories, then sorted alphabetically within each category. So if you want them sorted a certain way, names them 1, 2, 3 and keep them all the same category.

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Recently stopped working that way…

and a few other posts throughout the forum.

P.S.: while you’re there, maybe an explanation about the whole “Opening/Ending” thing that my original post that I linked to was about… :thinking: So far, no real explanation. Apologies for being off topic.

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I just wish I could have a measure of control of how they are sorted in a given category. For a while it seemed to work by “date modified” on the file. I have also tried to number them; this doesn’t really work that well either.

I was mostly curious if the reported bug was still out there. I really hope Plex revamps or updates the “extra’s” feature down the road.

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From what I can see on my own server, Plex is now sorting extras within each category alphabetically. That being said, it seems it’s a pure lexical sorting, not a “natural” sort – this means Plex will currently compare/sort items character by character.

As a result you might see items sorted like this: 1 > 10 > 11 > 13 > 2 > 3 > ... > 8 > 9. IIRC the main library is using some natural order which seems more “human friendly”: 1 > 2 > 3 > ... > 8 > 9 > 10 > 11 > 12 > 13.

You can easily overcome this by padding your index with zeros.

  • if the biggest index is less than 10 → no padding (1 → 9)
  • if the biggest index is bigger than 9 and less than 100 → one leading 0 (01 → 99)
  • if the biggest index is bigger than 99 and less than 1000 → two leading 0s (001 → 999)
  • …

If Plex had catalogued your extras before this was fixed, you’ll need to refresh the movie / show’s metadata to refresh the extras.

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Just thought I’ll mention that it seems this has actually been implemented with one of the recent PMS betas. Extras are now sorted alphabetically and considering the natural order if you’re using a numbered prefix/suffix.

Thank you, Plex :heart_eyes: :star_struck:

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