Span the progress bar over each part of a multiple file episode

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So I came into the position that I have to add multiple files episodes since the numbering between my DVDs of my country and the TVDBs is different. My DVD has 24 episodes with story archs over multiple episodes.
TVDB has only 6 episodes where each episode is its own storyarch.

So I trief the naming pattern Series Name - S01E01 - ptX.mkv for the first episode with X=1-4.

It seems to work on the server side. Only one episode is matched and the episode is displayed as beeing 1hrs42 min long, while each of my episodes is around 25 minutes. So it adds up.

But when I play the episode the episode is only 25 minutes long. There is no way to access part 2-4 directly. I have to wait (or scroll) to minute 24:59 of part 1 and wait till part 2 starts. This behaviour was the same on the newest Plex for Windows app and the web interface.
Sadly on Android the the second part was never started, I will open a bug ticket for that

This is not intuitive. I get since I set it up and I know (right now until I forget it) how the data behind it is structured.
But there is no way that e.g. my sists would get this.

I see multiple options:

  1. Span the progress bar over the overall playing time. skipping into last quarter would start the fourth part directly.

  2. Add more visual feedback in the episodes list that this is a multiple file episode. You could show all four parts as single items or open a dialog which asks which part to start.

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Tip: [HowTo]: joining multi-part movies files with MKVtoolnix GUI

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I know that this is an option but I do not want to do it since each part has an intro and credits. So I want to be able to access each episode as my DVD numbering has it directly.

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Can you tell me which tv show it is?

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Sure!
It’s called Mission Top Secret.

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Ah, a pretty old one.

Go to the top level of the show and use Fix Match
click on Search Options and switch the Agent to The Moviedatabase

because: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/3142-mission-top-secret/season/1

[edit] Oh, forget it. Apparently someone vandalised it there too. The first 6 episodes have all the wrong info as well over there.

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Times like this it would be nice if Plex maintained it’s own DB of movies and shows…

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Thanks for your ideas. This one worked. Of course I had to rename the files again to the usual pattern and do a plex dance.
I noticed the “vandalised” names there too but could correct them myself on the moviedb.

So for now I am happy with this series but the multiple files feature remains unusable for me due to the mentioned behaviour.