No.
In many or even most shows s01e01 is, erm, just that and the pilot is relegated to the Specials season.
Plex will always look up the show at TheTVDB. If they have a different episode order than what your files have, you’ll have to rearrange your files.
Unless you find that the order of your files is actually mirrored by either the DVD or the absolute order – if they exist for this particular show on TheTVDB.
And: Plex is only reading the season/episode code from the file name. It doesn’t read what comes afterwards. No matter which episode title you are inserting here, Plex doesn’t care about that.
Another issue are embedded metadata. If your files are in the mp4/m4v container format, they can have embedded ‘Title’ meta tags. By default Plex will read the content of that tag and use it as the episode’s title.
Make sure that embedded meta tags either contain correct information or are not present in the file at all.
So:
- Look up your show on TheTVDB
- Take the title as it is used on TheTVDB.
If there is something in parentheses, take that too.
If the title contains invalid characters (depends on your file system), like§ : % *, simply leave them out. - Check the naming and the folder structure of your show.
Name the top folder of the show exactly after the title on TheTVDB.
No abbreviations. No additional subfolders. No aliases.
Add the (year) in parentheses of when episode 1 of season 1 of this show was aired. - Name the episode files according to the above linked naming guide.
Use the same title as for the top folder.Show's Title (year) - s01e01 - additional info.ext(‘- additional info’ can be left out) - After you corrected the naming and folder structure, perform the Plex Dance with all files for this show.
