Shuffle two-part episodes together

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When watching a TV show on shuffle, sometimes it skips to a 2 part episode.  I almost always skip it because I won't be seeing both parts.  I'm sure for most people it's never a problem, but for some of us that do watch shows on shuffle (Always Sunny!) it'd be helpful.

 

 

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What client are you using?

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Mainly on Plex.TV with a chromecast, sometimes with the Android app.

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Are these 2 parts of the the same episode (stacked media)? If so, not all our clients support this: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200265006-Naming-Stacked-TV-Show-Episodes

Our Chromecast should support this setup, but the Android app does not (currently).

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Are these 2 parts of the the same episode (stacked media)? If so, not all our clients support this: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200265006-Naming-Stacked-TV-Show-Episodes

Our Chromecast should support this setup, but the Android app does not (currently).

Thanks for the tip, I don't think it's exactly what I'm looking for though.  It seems to be about single episodes, where the file just happens to be split in two.

The episodes (and file names) I want it to work it, don't have the same s01eXX number.

So instead of :

Heroes - s01e01-pt1.avi
Heroes - s01e01-pt2.avi

I've got what actually two separate episodes (as listed on epguides.com and/or thetvdb.com) with a "to be continued" storyline:

Its.Always.Sunny.In.Philadelphia.s07e12-pt1.mkv
Its.Always.Sunny.In.Philadelphia.s07e13-pt2.mkv
Changing the episode number to be the same number screws up the metadata.
 
 
 
And actually I had just changed my file names to try stacking them in Plex.  Because Plex is not the only way I browse my files I wouldn't have been happy having them named that way anyway.  Normally they're named this way:
 
Its.Always.Sunny.In.Philadelphia.s07e12.The.High.School.Reunion.mkv
Its.Always.Sunny.In.Philadelphia.s07e13.The.High.School.Reunion.Part.2.The.Gangs.Revenge.mkv

Technically that's how they're named on epguides.com and not thetvdb.com but I think it looks cleaner to reiterate the "The.High.School.Reunion.Part.2" title in s07e13.  And they show up fine (as two separate episodes on Plex).

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Ah, so they are 2 separate episodes. In which case, yeah, I'm afraid we don't/can't group these together in a shuffle. Sorry about that!

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Thanks for the tip, I don't think it's exactly what I'm looking for though.  It seems to be about single episodes, where the file just happens to be split in two.

The episodes (and file names) I want it to work it, don't have the same s01eXX number.

So instead of :

Heroes - s01e01-pt1.avi
Heroes - s01e01-pt2.avi

I've got what actually two separate episodes (as listed on epguides.com and/or thetvdb.com) with a "to be continued" storyline:

Its.Always.Sunny.In.Philadelphia.s07e12-pt1.mkv
Its.Always.Sunny.In.Philadelphia.s07e13-pt2.mkv
Changing the episode number to be the same number screws up the metadata.
 
 
 
And actually I had just changed my file names to try stacking them in Plex.  Because Plex is not the only way I browse my files I wouldn't have been happy having them named that way anyway.  Normally they're named this way:
 
Its.Always.Sunny.In.Philadelphia.s07e12.The.High.School.Reunion.mkv
Its.Always.Sunny.In.Philadelphia.s07e13.The.High.School.Reunion.Part.2.The.Gangs.Revenge.mkv

Technically that's how they're named on epguides.com and not thetvdb.com but I think it looks cleaner to reiterate the "The.High.School.Reunion.Part.2" title in s07e13.  And they show up fine (as two separate episodes on Plex).

You could use a tool like mkvToolnix to combine them into one file named: Its.Always.Sunny.In.Philadelphia.s07e12e13.The.High.School.Reunion Parts 1 and 2.mkv

Then they would play together since they are one file although you end up with closing and opening credits in the middle so it isn't ideal. I suppose you could edit the combined file but one quickly approaches a level of diminishing returns.

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You could use a tool like mkvToolnix to combine them into one file named: Its.Always.Sunny.In.Philadelphia.s07e12e13.The.High.School.Reunion Parts 1 and 2.mkv
 
Then they would play together since they are one file although you end up with closing and opening credits in the middle so it isn't ideal. I suppose you could edit the combined file but one quickly approaches a level of diminishing returns.


That's a good idea, and actually with mkvmerge it's also very easy to split/cut a single file into multiple parts at a given timestamp. Therefore I could cut the ending credits out of the first part entirely before I merge them in to one file. Still might mess up the Plex metadata a little but but as long as it registers as the first part/episode not a big deal.

Thanks for the suggestions to you both.
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