I am having the same issue and so far I have only noticed it with episodes of TV shows that are in the “Specials” folder. I am using the recommended naming conventions (S00E01).
All of my files are MKVs so I do not think LMA has anything to do with it in my case. It is my understanding that Plex does not read metadata from MKVs.
It’s the same for me. Only the “Specials” episodes are having this issue. And like I said in my previous post, it didn’t do this in the older build (a build from sometime late last year) I tested with.
Same issue. Playing S00E03 from the specials folder will play S02E17 instead. It’s only happening for S00E03. All the other specials work correctly.
Just upgraded server to latest version 1.22.1.4275; issue is still there…
Chiming in, I’ve also been having this issue where some specials are playing wrong and random files, it started in 1.22. Rolling back to 1.21 fixes it and that’s what i’m doing
from what i can gather the file you are trying to play is in the play queue if you check at the very bottom.
also appears plex dev team are working on it so hopefully a fix soon since they said they reported the bug like 2 weeks ago.
Thanks for the information @Boontato. Good to hear Plex has this in their backlog. Let’s hope it gets some priority 
In the hope to add more priority I can confirm this is also happening for me. A S00E07 is playing S03E09 of the same series no matter what I do.
I also encountered the same problem. In Specials Season, if multiple videos have the same broadcast date, or the broadcast time of the following video is earlier than the previous video, when I click to play, the correct video cannot be played。
server：ubuntu 20.04
plex server： 1.22.2.4282
Just had this issue happen. I have a bunch of specials that suddenly play the same one video (from the same specials folder) even though it’s showing the correctly linked video under info.
I recently upgraded to version 4.54.5 and now I too am getting this error. When I try to play any of the new specials I added for Breaking Bad, it now plays the pilot episode every time. My files are not mp4 either, they are mkv. It seems like this latest release is bug laden.
Thank you, I will try upgrading to that version, since the previous still has this issue for me too. Strangely my server did not notify me that the newer version was available.
Actually, I don’t see that version available for the Synology Nas.
Nevermind, I see it now
Not it is set to the public update channel.
Ah ok, I assumed that the Beta channel would be for beta releases (those still in testing) and thus not desirable to move to.
I greatly appreciate your help by the way. I’m still new to Plex and learning every day.
I moved to that version and now all playback is broken for me
It should be. What steps should I take to test that?
Then it is properly signed in.
Ok, that was the issue with playback. Unfortunately the bug with Plex playing the wrong episode persists.
