Naming Multi Season Episodes

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First: I’ve been naming fine for years but recently hit a new weird issue.

A show “Bleach” does episode discs as one long video file. I’ve named episodes fine before but their discs are overlapping seasons now.
Example:
s1e15-s2e01
so the first 14 episodes appear in Plex but these never appear and it’s multi discs that do that in this series.
should it be renamed s1e15-e22-s2e01 or something similar?

I took snipping photos to show this Bleach 1 Bleach 2 Bleach 3

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I should note I have 16TB+ of videos so far and this is the first snag. I have another issue but this comes first :slight_smile:

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Have you considered ripping the episodes into individual files or splitting your multi-episode files into single episode ones?

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There is no naming convention for that.

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Your naming and structuring is horrific.
Poorly named and structured media may work - may even work for a while.
Welcome to the day it no longer works.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/

Particularly:

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

If the show really only comes in one magnum episode - that is unfortunate - Plex Veterans avoid that condition at ALL COSTS.

If you just ripped out the big file ‘cause it was easier - abandon all hope.
Get to rippin’.

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I’m not really understanding what is “horrific”. He does not have a season folder but if he does not want to do specific season things like having special season artwork files it is not really needed. Other wise the naming looks fine to me.

We do not support multi season files however and in all likely-hood never will.

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I’d suggest taking @tom80H’s advice and splitting at least the cross-season episodes into individual files, so that no single file crosses season boundaries. Here’s the related how-to:

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There’s no Season Structure at all.
S4E09 isn’t right
and it absolutely isn’t right for a show that’s got 16 Seasons.

“Match Failures” tells us, in no uncertain terms, if we don’t follow the instructions - bad things will happen. New TVDB and New Plex talking to New TVDB absolutely want proper and correct file names and structures.

I’m not seeing any.

… and no, there’s no magic potion that jumps seasons.
So, if the individual episodes aren’t available, then the ‘work-around’ is to make one of them either the end of the previous season, or the start of the next one.

I guess we can agree on that, at least.

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Let’s agree to turn it down a notch.
Lack of folder structure is not the issue at hand nor related to the OP’s question.

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S4E09 S04E09 S004E009 are all fine.

like I said you don’t technically need a season folder for it to find the metadata.

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It’s disc only has one video track. I have no way to edit that

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i will try i don’t know if i have the hardware to support processing that. do i need anything special?

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The process of splitting the files is not very processor-intensive. It’s not performing a transcode, just re-multiplexing the streams. The main thing you need to know before starting the process is the times in the files where the episodes split.

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Such multi-episode, single-file discs usually have chapters indicating the begin of each episode. MKVToolnix also allows you to split files by chapters (if you don’t want to / cannot get the timecodes)

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