2014 on this thread and no movement toward a viable solution.
I wonder how far back other threads go - without resolution?
Here’s my resolution that works today:
S01E01-E02 <---- uh… no…
S01E01
S01E03 <---- hand edit E01 to contain a note and the info for E02.
No messy mishandling of E02 and no waiting, crying, wringing of hands while Plex does nothing.
+1 Not only is this poorly handled, but there is a ridiculously simple solution. Why this hasn’t been fixed yet literally baffles me
I would like to see this fixed. And the name of the episodes so that it only shows as one episode does not work for me.
I have my own program running that checks for missing episodes and suggests them as download so these episodes would show as missing in my application.
Please just let Plex mark both as watched and skip to the next unwatched, kid’s cartoons are really bad with this, and sometimes my son asks for a certain episode, but it’s impossible to find if it’s in the 2nd half, since I now name my episodes s01e01[-02] - description.mp4 to avoid the constant battle where plex will play the same file twice.
Garfield is even worse, as it’s 3 episodes in 1 file…
I am amazed that this remains an issue. It would be VERY simple to fix but Plex seems unable or unwilling to fix it.
Emby handles multiple episode files perfectly and Plex should be able to as well. I cannot believe that Plex programmers are incompetent so the only real possibilities are that they have chosen or been directed to ignore this bug, and yes it is a bug even if it is put in by choice because there is no way to spin it as correct operation.
Plex REALLY needs to direct the programmers to spend the hour or two it would take to tell the apps (or maybe the server) to skip two or three episodes on completion if the file is name indicates it contains multiple episodes.
It cannot be hard at all after all the server runs on a computer and all clients are computers and computers are quite good at counting. No matter what system is handling the actual advancing it should be just a few extra lines of code to fix the bug.
Because it would be so easy to fix it is clear that Plex does not care to fix it and they would rather their users just deal with the bug. That is Plex’s “modus operandi” but in this case I fail to see how retaining the bug is of benefit to Plex. It is impossible for me to see any advantage for Plex unless it is just Plex wanting to exercise control and force their users to endure the pain of improper operation. Ples seems to not only be control freaks but sadists as well.
If Plex developers actually used Plex… well… they don’t and neither do they listen to those in the ‘inner circle’ that do (might) and users absolutely have no impact on what Plex does (or doesn’t do), so here we are.
This ‘Feature Request’ goes back to 2014 - I’m sure there’s others that are even more geriatric…
I’m surprised there still hasn’t been an option to address this.
I agree there needs to be better handling of this. If you record off of antenna as Plex promotes, you get stuck with this bad implementation on mostly kids cartoons. Even if we were allowed to “combine” episodes within Plex to display metadata for both episodes it would take care of display and watched status
Amen. I’m guessing there’s some kind of a logistical roadblock that makes this a bit more complicated, but why are complex features no one asked for like Podcasts being added, yet things like this that are a daily headache for long time users ignored? Sigh.
@ottopocho said:
Amen. I’m guessing there’s some kind of a logistical roadblock that makes this a bit more complicated, but why are complex features no one asked for like Podcasts being added, yet things like this that are a daily headache for long time users ignored? Sigh.
There is absolutely no logistical roadblocks to fixing this, after all Emby does it perfectly.
Plex is simply convinced they did it right the first time and fixing it is not in any way a priority. As I have said in other threads: Plex is always right and Plex never changes.
The fix would be easy but Plex is to lazy or too focused on other things. This is a BUG but fixing bugs is not a priority for Plex. According to Plex: “If it is not new it is not worth doing.”
Over 4 years and still no fix to this? That has to be a new record.
It’s really killing me with kid’s cartoons.
Is there a proper feature request for this in the feature requests forum? I would definitely burn one of my precious votes to get this fixed, especially since the fix is probably incredibly simple.
Yes, vote at the feature request below…also started in 2014. The (lack of) response from Plex on this is absolutely pathetic.
Even my 5 year old knows that the system is currently very broken. All he wants is to watch each episode of Paw Patrol, in order, with metadata, and no idiotic repeat plays of the same file.
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