Where you specify the appropriate season, episode numbers (the first and last episode covered in the file), and file extension.
Note : Multi-episode files will show up individually in Plex apps when viewing your library, but playing any of the represented episodes will play the full file. If you want episodes to behave truly independently, you’re best off using a tool to split the file into individual episodes.
To get a better overall experience, you may wish to use a tool to split the video so that each episode has its own individual file. There are multiple ways you can do this and a quick search in your favorite search engine should give you some options on how to “split” a file. An unofficial guide with one free tool has even been posted in our forums.
That is what I have now, but it’s not optimal because it appears there are missing episodes (and if there are actually are missing episodes, you wouldn’t know.)
So I thought I’d just name the episodes so I could tell, but it seems Plex may be stripping out the numbers from the end of the title.
ie
ShowName - s01e01 - Title 01-03
comes in as
ShowName - s01e01 - Title
I have a lot of shows like this, especially old cartoons where the episodes are split out individually in TheTVDB but are together on the DVD in sets of two or three.
Plex does not handle multiple episodes in a single file elegantly in the client display which makes for a less than an optimal user experience.
If you use the naming convention below, three items are listed. There is no easy way to tell that clicking each episode will play the file in full starting at the beginning.
Animaniacs - s01e01-03 - Title
If you use this method, only one item shows up per file, but the Episodes are listed incorrectly as singular.
Animaniacs - s01e01 - Title
Animaniacs - s01e04 - Title
Animaniacs - s01e07 - Title
What I would like is for Plex to display these items in a way that does not imply I’m missing episodes because I’m not. And also in a way that doesn’t imply there are individual episodes on disk when there are not.
What I’d like to see is one item per file, with the episodes listed correctly beneath the title. Episode 1-3, Episode 4-6, Episode 7-9.
I understand this is likely impossible (but shouldn’t be :D)
if you wish to make a feature request you can do that here. I don’t think anyone was disagreeing with your feelings about it. Just giving you the information that it can’t currently do what you want it to do.
Thanks. I was going to request a feature once I confirmed. In the meantime, I’ve not yet been able to figure out a work-around. I thought maybe Plex would read embedded metadata for .mkv files for unmatched items but that was a no-go as well.
