Non-sequential stacked episode naming

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I’ve got a video file that includes two special episodes of a tv show, and I’m having trouble getting the naming right for the TVDB agent.

The usual convention for naming stacked episodes is something like “Show.title.S01E01E02.ext”. If the file contained the first three episodes of that season, the correct name would be “Show.title.S01E01E03.ext”, as Plex would recognize that file as containing all episodes in the range E01 to E03.

Here’s the problem. The file I’m trying to name contains non-sequential episodes, so this range convention interferes with the recognition of other episodes between the two non-sequential episodes in this file. So instead of having Plex recognize S00E15 and S00E22 of Banshee, using this ranged convention makes Plex think this file contains all episodes between S00E15 and S00E22.

I’ve tried naming the file “Banshee.S00E15&E22.ext”, but that still reads it as a range.

I could simply split the file and name the episodes individually, but it would be more elegant to solve the problem with a name. Is there a naming rule that would solve my problem?

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Fairly certain non-sequential episode naming is not supported. It will just take whatever the first episode it finds in the string, and the last episode it finds and includes everything between them. It’s typically much better to split them in my opinion, even if they were sequential. If you had a file S01E01E02 and in a plex client you begin playing E01, you will watch both episodes (obviously). When done though you will still have E02 marked as unwatched. Which just gets worse if it was a large multi-episode range.

Also they only use the “stacked” term for a single piece of media split into multiple files. What you are referring to is just “Multi-Episode Files”.