Plex is combining OVA and regular episodes

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I would like the same thing. I have an Anime series where Plex is combining the episodes of an OVA with Season 1 of the show, even though they are in separate folders with different nanes, and I want them to show up separately in thePlex guide.

Here is the XML:

<MediaContainer size="1" allowSync="1" identifier="com.plexapp.plugins.library" librarySectionID="7" librarySectionTitle="TV Shows" librarySectionUUID="7152707b-35d7-4ee8-b4b1-df50914fed2b" mediaTagPrefix="/system/bundle/media/flags/" mediaTagVersion="1642012480">
<Video ratingKey="31296" key="/library/metadata/31296" parentRatingKey="31295" grandparentRatingKey="31294" guid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://78920/1/1?lang=en" parentGuid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://78920/1?lang=en" grandparentGuid="com.plexapp.agents.thetvdb://78920?lang=en" type="episode" title="Ah! Are You a Goddess?" grandparentKey="/library/metadata/31294" parentKey="/library/metadata/31295" librarySectionTitle="TV Shows" librarySectionID="7" librarySectionKey="/library/sections/7" grandparentTitle="Ah! My Goddess" parentTitle="Season 1" contentRating="TV-14" summary="The day begins with a routine set of exercise with the Auto Club for Keiichi. Afterwards he goes to catch a little more sleep, and ends up nearly being late for school. When he goes to get his bike, it wont start, so he has to run to school. On his way he" index="1" parentIndex="1" viewCount="1" lastViewedAt="1639943775" year="2005" thumb="/library/metadata/31296/thumb/1509427311" art="/library/metadata/31294/art/1509427373" parentThumb="/library/metadata/31295/thumb/1509427370" grandparentThumb="/library/metadata/31294/thumb/1509427373" grandparentArt="/library/metadata/31294/art/1509427373" grandparentTheme="/library/metadata/31294/theme/1509427373" duration="1711009" originallyAvailableAt="2005-01-06" addedAt="1495612646" updatedAt="1509427311">

<Media id="30473" duration="1711009" bitrate="542" width="640" height="480" aspectRatio="1.33" audioChannels="2" audioCodec="mp3" videoCodec="h264" videoResolution="480" container="avi" videoFrameRate="NTSC" videoProfile="main">

<Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="82498" key="/library/parts/82498/1308968976/file.avi" duration="1711009" file="/volume1/video/Anime/Ah! My Godess! OVA/OVA Set 1/Ah! My Goddess! OVA - 01.avi" size="116027696" container="avi" videoProfile="main">
<Stream id="204742" streamType="1" codec="h264" index="0" bitrate="399" bitDepth="8" chromaLocation="left" chromaSubsampling="4:2:0" codedHeight="480" codedWidth="640" frameRate="29.970" hasScalingMatrix="0" height="480" level="51" profile="main" refFrames="1" scanType="progressive" width="640" displayTitle="480p (H.264)" extendedDisplayTitle="480p (H.264)"> </Stream>
<Stream id="204743" streamType="2" selected="1" codec="mp3" index="1" channels="2" bitrate="130" audioChannelLayout="stereo" samplingRate="44100" streamIdentifier="1" displayTitle="Unknown (MP3 Stereo)" extendedDisplayTitle="Unknown (MP3 Stereo)"> </Stream>
</Part>
</Media>
<Media id="30505" duration="1471151" bitrate="596" width="540" height="300" aspectRatio="1.78" audioChannels="1" audioCodec="mp3" videoCodec="flv1" videoResolution="sd" container="flv">
<Part accessible="1" exists="1" id="82507" key="/library/parts/82507/1197960250/file.flv" duration="1471151" file="/volume1/video/Anime/Ah! My Goddess!/Anime Season 1/Ah! My Goddess - S01E01.flv" size="109617219" container="flv">
<Stream id="204759" streamType="1" codec="flv1" index="0" bitrate="526" bitDepth="8" chromaSubsampling="4:2:0" codedHeight="300" codedWidth="540" frameRate="12.000" height="300" refFrames="1" width="540" displayTitle="SD (FLV1)" extendedDisplayTitle="SD (FLV1)"> </Stream>
<Stream id="204760" streamType="2" selected="1" codec="mp3" index="1" channels="1" bitrate="64" audioChannelLayout="mono" samplingRate="22050" displayTitle="Unknown (MP3 Mono)" extendedDisplayTitle="Unknown (MP3 Mono)"> </Stream>
</Part>
</Media>
<Director id="52703" filter="director=52703" tag="Hiroaki Gohda"/>
<Writer id="52701" filter="writer=52701" tag="Kunihiko Kondo"/>
<Writer id="52702" filter="writer=52702" tag="Nahoko Hasegawa"/>
<Extras size="0"> </Extras>
<Related> </Related>
</Video>
</MediaContainer>
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Please don’t post regular support questions in a feature request thread.

You are not adhering to the rules for naming and organizing tv show files in Plex. That’s why you get mismatches and combining episodes.
Tip: OVAs are usually listed in Season 00 of a tv show

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Thanks. After renaming the files accoring to the plex naming convensions with the SnnEnn extension, and puting the OVA files in Season 0, they are now showing up separately in a Specials folder.

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