Dragon Ball, Grey’s Anatomy, Star Gate SG1, or any long running TV series with hundreds of episodes even when separated by a bunch of episodes into each corresponding Seasons 1, 2, 3, etc…
The Episodes numeric handling gets messy.
For example Dragon Ball from Episode 1 to Episode 99 are properly recognized into its own Seasons.
That will be from Season 1 to Season 7.
…but Dragon Ball actually extents to 153 episodes, anything that was supposed to be Season 8 and Season 9 got grouped into Season 1, just because the episodes numbers started with 100 to 153.
I know the workaround is to use the “Suggested” naming of S8EP100 to S9EP153, but goshh… renaming hundreds of files is no easy task.
Specially for long running shows like StarGate SG1 and Grey’s and many other shows that has several hundred episodes.
So, my feedback or wish list item, is for Plex to be able to distinguish the numbers properly, using again the example of Dragon Ball, all the files are properly numbered EP 001 all the way to EP 153.
I guess Plex should not ignore the leading Zeroes for file naming, so it can properly recognize files grouping properly.
Yup, did that already, which is why I gave the example of EP001 to EP153
Yet the Plex media scan, just rolls everything into season 1, just because the numbers EP100 to EP153 starts with “1”
Another example Dragon Ball Z that goes into 291 episodes.
All episodes are properly named EP001 to EP291,
yet every episodes that starts with 200 to 291 gets rolled into Season 2 just because it starts with “2”,
and of course all episodes starting with 100 to 199, gets rolled into Season 1 as mentioned above, because they all start with “1”
Currently separating the files into Seasons folders is not enough, the files must also be lead by a Season# then Episode#, otherwise it just throws everything into the wrong season that starts with that number.
Wait, so you’re just naming the episodes “EP001” to “EP 291” (for example)? Well in that case… The reason it doesn’t match correctly is that that’s not the naming scheme Plex expects.
It tries to do it’s best to still match them somehow, but apparently it was decided that it would make more sense to parse this as EP2.91 (Season 2, Episode 91). You can disagree with that, but I can definitely see where they’re coming from here, considering that Plex needs to divide Season based shows into seasons somehow and therefore has to look for the season number somewhere in the filename.
You could of course argue that if you have season folders it should take the season number from the folder - and I would actually agree with you here, it’s pretty stupid that plex wants a specific folder structure but then often disregards folder names - but tbh, the chance of this being changed, regardless of what either of us thinks, is exactly 0.
Anyway, it’s pretty clear from the support articles that numbering all the episodes continuously is not supported, and that you’re supposed to stick with TVDB ‘Season Number - Episode Number in Season’ approach (so every season starts with SXXE01 and counts from there).
Your easiest solution therefore is to use a program like filebot to rename all the files (at least for these shows, but ideally you’d stick with the official naming scheme for everything; in my experience this makes everything way easier).
This exactly.
Like what’s the purpose of separating the files into corresponding Season folders, if it disregard it completely and actually parses the season information from the filename.
yeah, i know that’s why in my original post I mentioned “wish list item”
Logically having every episode listed numerically makes more sense, as DVD/Blueray ripping software will extract the episodes numerically, instead of by season#episode###
Even online episode guides/wiki listings often uses the actual episode number instead of season#episode###
Only IMDB and TVDB uses the American format season#episode###, I’ve seen complain from European people that they are not used to the “Season” terminology for TV episodes.
Anyway, good to now that I’m not the only one, Plex could use some improvement in the code.
Wish List Item: Make use of the Folder name to separate seasons, for multi-season TV shows instead of the filename S#E###.
Hey neat tool,
Thanks I’ll definitely check it out.
Currently I’m using a script to find and replace whatever I want, but even with that when you have to deal with several season worth of files, it can get tedious at times.
If this tool can do that automatically, then it’ll be awesome.
