Ive tried using different agents (Myanimelist agent, theTVDB).
Also tried renaming episodes to later episodes such as 1002.
Tried duplicating an episode that scans correctly and renaming it to episode 1000.
None of these solutions worked, 999 is always the last episode that gets scanned.
All episodes are in a single season folder and are named “One Piece - XXXX.mkv”.
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Don’t use the “absolute” numbering scheme.
One Piece is subdivided into seasons: One Piece (TV Series 1999- ) - Seasons — The Movie Database (TMDB)
Stick to the naming schema for TV shows in Plex: Naming and Organizing Your TV Show Files | Plex Support
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Thanks for your response! I understand that technically it is divided into seasons.
However i (like most people i believe) much prefer anime to be simply listed as one season.
Which has worked perfectly for 999 episodes of one piece and every other anime ive tried.
So I’m hoping to find a work around to make it work for episodes 1000+ aswell.
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Plex should do that, when detect the user have files with “absolute numbering"
is not that hard…
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yeah this is stupid scanners should be able to go higher than 999 for episode numbers not everything is divided in seasons
when i want to rewatch an episode and search online for a reference i’m not going to find yeah go to episode 13 of season 20 , i’m going to find reference to episode 950 or whatever it might actually be.
adding another digit to the scanner couldn’t be that hard to implement , probably 30 min to a bored developer , compared to suggesting thousands of people should start renaming 1000 episodes of their collection…
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As per Otto’s point… go with the naming schema – even if you go with the absolute episode order.
Naming the episode One Piece - s01e1000 should work while One Piece 1000 will not work. It’s as simple as that.
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with all the respect this is a half assed solution the agreed naming convention for one piece episodes is just absolute numbers no seasons.
If you build a feature it should reflect reality , you think it should be used that way but it isn’t used that way and making me rename my collection to hack my files to show in the library isn’t a solution at all.
And i don’t want to rename my files cause other software i am using depends on that naming convention and it’s not an option
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well i don’t like to rename anime’s like this ( One Piece - S20E1000 ) but had to do it for episodes 1000 and 10001 so it get recognized.
yeah but how do i rename it and also keep my other software that depends on that naming convention working. and why should i rename it in the first place…
My issue is that the Plex team doesn’t seem to acknowledge that this is a bug and they should fix it and instead offer hackish solutions and telling the users that they are all wrong.
How the hell do i even submit a bug report ?
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Let’s keep the Torrent out of this thread or I’ll have to close it.
https://forums.plex.tv/guidelines#heading---tidy
Done , hopefully you’re not going to close this thread on that note cause it really has nothing to do with the issue.
I dont work for plex, but I am a programmer, adding support for 4 digit episode numbers often breaks a LOT of other stuff that is all interconnected. How many shows out there have 1000+ episodes and do not have seasons? you might have to bite the bullet and adjust your formatting.
Hi tom, I followed this naming schema for ep 1000 and 1001.
But it looks like plex considers these two episodes as one (2 version of 1 episode).
Please advise how to fix this.
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I am a programmer also it might break or might not break depending on how the code is written (probably just a regex somewhere), in the end i found a custom scanner on github that does the job but this should be the default behaviour in plex i should’n have to install custom scanners to support such a basic thing
If some of you guys want to get support for 1000+ episodes you can check this link GitHub - ZeroQI/Absolute-Series-Scanner: Seasons, absolute mode, Subfolders...
How did you download the PY file?
When I click the download link it is redirecting me to the code.
Wouldn’t it be S01E1000 and S01E1001 as per the absolute ordering over at the TVDB and not S02 like you have above.
https://thetvdb.com/series/one-piece/seasons/absolute/1
BTW… S01E1001 only aired today so it could take 24-48 hours for the plex cache servers to catchup on the metadata depending on when it was updated over at TVDB.
Also… I agree wholeheartedly with @OttoKerner above and that a better naming would be like they have it over at TMDB with it subdivided into seasons.
you just copy all the text and create a file and save it as that file make sure you have the .py extension
not to sure about the windows steps because i’m on Linux
Thing is if I use S01E1000, S01E1001 it doesn’t get recognized.
or just download the whole repository as a zip an you’ll have the file there
among others
If you had those files previously added with some other name… try a Plex Dance first. They’re probably mismatched as duplicates of some other episode (maybe even as season 10, episode 0 and 1).
