# Re-order episodes

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/re-order-episodes/814910>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [October 15, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/re-order-episodes/814910 "2022-10-15T19:12:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/re-order-episodes/814910/2 "2022-10-15T19:36:04Z")

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I’m not quite sure I understand what you’re aiming for…  
Do you want the episodes to still match based on their file names but then manually re-arrange their order?  
e.g. your file is named `Show Name - s01e01`; it’ll download the metadata for s01e01; then you tell Plex to place this in the 2nd episode position instead??

This seems to be what’s already discussed in an existing feature suggestion.

> [@Manually Renumber TV Episodes](https://forums.plex.tv/t/manually-renumber-tv-episodes/469730):
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> It’s extremely annoying and cumbersome to have to search through every metadata provider to find one that matches the episode numbering scheme you’d prefer, if one supported by Plex even has said numbering scheme. Plus, there’s the pesky instances where the version of the local media that you own combines or separates episodes and you must either manually combine/separate them or deal with the server making it seem as though episodes are missing. Allowing users to manually number episodes/arrang…

If that’s what you’re suggesting too, please comment/vote in that thread in order to avoid distracting votes (and letting us close this one).

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There’s another somewhat related suggestion, discussing an option to manually match episodes.

> [@Fix Individual Episode Matches](https://forums.plex.tv/t/fix-individual-episode-matches/326638):
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> So, i just Got Batman The Complete Animated Series Deluxe Special Edition on Blu-ray, and after i having everything backed-up and named properly as per the episode order on the disks. it does not match what is on IMDB or TVdb. which is good because on there some of the 2 part episodes apparently aren’t shown back to back. So is there a way other than manually entering the information for a 100+ episodes that i can fix this? I would like to have it match the order of whats actually on my shelf.

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