Some extras show up, some don't. Why?

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I am trying make some extras/specials show up in Plex. I have the following files:

$ pwd
/media/Shows/The Office (US)/Specials/Fake PSAs

$ tree
.
└── S02
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt10.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt11.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt12.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt13.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt14.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt15.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt16.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt17.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt1.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt2.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt3.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt4.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt5.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt6.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt7.mkv
    ├── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt8.mkv
    └── S00E120-Season 2 Fake PSA-pt9.mkv

1 directory, 17 files

$ pwd
/media/Shows/The Office (US)/Specials/Deleted Scenes

$ ls
'S00E131_1 Pilot Deleted Scenes-pt1.mkv'          'S00E131_3 Health Care Deleted Scenes-pt3.mkv'   'S00E131_5 Basketball Deleted Scenes-pt5.mkv'   S01   S03   S05   S07   S09
'S00E131_2 Diversity Day Deleted Scenes-pt2.mkv'  'S00E131_4 The Alliance Deleted Scenes-pt4.mkv'  'S00E131_6 Hot Girl Deleted Scenes-pt6.mkv'     S02   S04   S06   S08

Now, the Fake PSAs show up just fine (as one media item with 10 files) as expected. However, deleted scenes don’t.

I have the structure above where I hate parts under /media/Shows/The Office (US)/Specials/Deleted Scenes and under season directories under that. The naming scheme is the same and consistent.

What is wrong? How do I make this work? I wonder if the _N name in the deleted seasons is causing this? Unlikely though because I’ve also tried S00E131_Ep1-Pilot Deleted Scenes-pt1.mkv and S00E131-Eps1-Pilot Deleted Scenes-pt1.mkv and none seem to work.

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Plex does not support local extras for tv shows.

Also… you might want to review your file naming / folder structures or you’re set to run into trouble sooner or later.

Shows   <- the folder linked to your tv-show library
  Show Name
    Season XX   <- not sXX
      Show Name - sXXeYY - optional text.ext

Where XX is the season number, YY the episode number and .ext is your file extension (e.g. .mkv).

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Thanks but 2 questions:

Plex does not support local extras for tv shows.

I don’t follow this. Some local extras do show up in Plex. For eg I have Bloopers and Fake PSAs as shown. Why do those work?

Also… you might want to review your file naming / folder structures or you’re set to run into trouble sooner or later.

What issues do you mean? The linked page doesn’t talk about the trade-offs.

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For TV Shows there’s “special episodes”… that could be x-mas specials or behind-the-scenes episodes. But usually that’s just regular episodes outside the regular season structure.

The further your naming schema deviates from that proposed by Plex, the more likely you’re to run into situations where Plex isn’t recognizing/matching the shows correctly and might get seasons/episodes wrong.

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I guess I should’ve clarified that in my case, I do have extras that match The TV DB metadata and some that don’t (Bloopers and Fake PSAs for eg). For the ones that don’t exist on TVDB, I just have fake ep numbers and they show fine. All of them are under a “Specials” folder (as shown in the pwd output).

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Plex will see the media that’s directly in the Specials folder and follows the basic tv-episode naming pattern (e.g. sXXeYY pattern in the file name). Subfolders of Specials (or any other season folders) are not considered when Plex is scanning your media.

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Subfolders of Specials (or any other season folders) are not considered when Plex is scanning your media

I don’t think that’s true. See these Fake PSAs for eg:

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Following the exact same file/folder structure for Deleted Scenes doesn’t work though.

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Let me rephrase…
subfolders related to local extras will not be considered when scanning your media (e.g. “Deleted Scenes”, “Others”, “Featurettes”, “Behind the Scenes”… – the same goes for “Extras”).

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I may be misunderstanding, because as you can see, subfolders are (see the image above).

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“Fake PSAs” is not linked to any supported “extras” category that Plex will ignore.

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Ah damn, so Plex ignores certain specific paths? Is there a list of that somewhere?

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That’s basically the list of folders associated with local extras from the movies category. While tv-shows don’t support local extras, the folder names are apparently still reserved.

And some others…

Edit:
Generally speaking I would try to avoid creating artificial subfolders in a season folder. You’ll never know if some update will break it… even if it’s working right now.

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Huh ok so I guess renaming the “Deleted Scenes” to “Del Scenes” or something is fine (confirmed).

Wow what a rabbit hole. Thanks for the help.

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