You are kiding right? Right??? I’m also developer…they have a scanner engine, its just another condition entry for the case of global numbering, they probably avoided 4 digits due to the year in the name of things, You just need a simple loop checking with a regex whether or not this number is incremental in other media with same name in the same folder, like any human would do to identify this logic…then run the test cases to see if didn’t break anything else and You are good to go.
Masaka…
Its a bug/Tech Debit, they limited because they didn’t wanted to bother with it in the past since going to the 4 digits would be harder since every media year uses 4 digit to identify the version as year.
@Farah Plex does support 4 digit episodes, Im up to Episode 2384 on one show. Either follow Plex’s S01EXXXX format or find a program that supports your format. Programming for year vs episode number (aka plain 4 digit codes) is actually far more complex than you give it credit for. At this point its a cost/benefit trade-off. How much additional resources is it going to take to create a reliable way of doing that, and how much additional resources is it going to consume for the thousands and thousands of users who never need this feature? Because adding that logic will slow how Plex processes TV libraries. The question then boils down to is it worth it? From the response you have been given is: No its not. Please follow the Plex naming standards, if you choose to use your own format whatever breaks is your fault.
“Feature toogle”
“Feature toggle” doesn’t address the developmental and upkeep resources. Since you are a developer, spend 30 seconds to write something that converts your files to the Plex standard.
Ive written several tools that standardize my library format and guess what? As long as that format is supported by plex things work GREAT.
If You think about it, i was just answering Your line about "…Aditional resources of thousands and thousands of uses " lol.
Plex is a standalone product, as long as we are talking about scanning folders and index these items, its a responsibility for Plex, and not anything else.
I created a tool to rename every subtitle to its movie reference in a folder as long as they share a “s01e01” pattern because Plex is not suposed to that. But plex IS responsible for folder scanning since ever…
Plex does have a documentation on how it scan series, but it is its own fault to not cover this type of series where episodes are in a row. And its OK, its business and user case discovery, now they know if they didn’t and they have an opportunity to make it better like it seems they already did by the comments.
Writing new code not required.
Writing simple naming regex is all you need do. It provides the templates
I use
/nas/media/tv/{n}/Season {s.pad(2)}/{n} - {s00e00} - {t}
To support 4-digit episodes - make the template longer
/nas/media/tv/{n}/Season {s.pad(2)}/{n} - {s00e0000} - {t}
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