Office Season 4, double-episodes screwing up ordering in Plex TV Agent

[ElTowers]

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The first four episodes of The Office Season 4 were double-epsidoes. The rips I have combine each double-episode into a single file (i.e., The Office - S04E01-E02). I made sure they were titled appropriately for combined episodes per https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/ but it doesn’t seem to do anything.

How can I get Plex to recognize these four double-episode files as two episodes apiece? The entire season’s episode listings are screwed up due to this.

Thanks

[dbirch]

Can you post a picture of the files in the folder in question?

[ElTowers]

[happytaz]

You’ll need to renumber the episodes like Fun Run is S04E01, Dunder Mifflin Infinity S04E02, Launch Party is S04E03, Money is S04E04, Local Ad is S04E5, etc.

Then change the episode ordering agent for The Office:

Edit->Advanced->Episode ordering->The Movie Database (Aired)

[ElTowers]

Here’s how its showing up in Plex. Notice how it thinks each of the two-part episodes are a single episode and that ‘Dunder Mifflin Infinity’ is Eps 2 (though in reality it is Eps 3 and 4).

[ElTowers]

Thanks @happytaz - I’d prefer to avoid needing to renumber the episodes if possible. Wikipedia and all sources identify that the season was 19 episodes long, not 14 so I’d prefer to keep that if possible.

I did take part of your suggestion though, and changed The Office episode ordering to TVDB (Aired) and it partially fixed it. Though oddly for each double-parter, it swaps the summaries of the episodes (it says Fun Run (2) is the first part as you can see here).

[happytaz]

Sorry, I misunderstood your original post.

Your screenshot is using a combination of your original order with TVDB (Aired). TVDB (Aired) should look like this:

https://thetvdb.com/series/the-office-us/seasons/official/4

Try refreshing the meta data or make sure the meta data isn’t locked.

[JaysPlex]

There’s nothing you can do about the show description being swapped. I use the TVDB show order and mine is messed up too

TMDB only has 1 episode listed for this s04e01 and that’s the description

Fun Run

September 27, 200742m

Michael comes to believe the office might be cursed in the wake of a freak accident. After scrutinizing each of his staffers’ religious beliefs, he organizes a charity 5K “fun run.”

Don’t pull your hair out trying to fix it. Maybe @BigWheel has an idea of what needs to be done

Just FYI for future reference I’d stay away from Wiki for naming any shows. They can differ from both the TVDB and TMDB and those are the only sources Plex pulls from

[ElTowers]

Thanks folks, appreciate the help. This should be ‘good enough’.

[BigWheel]

@JaysPlex

Maybe @BigWheel has an idea of what needs to be done

looks like everything has be considered. at the end of the day can only choose the available orders. and manually edit as one sees fit. I personally would use TVDB aired order and just edit the second part episode summary to be whatever.