Split TV Series or Multiple TV Series Editions

General Discussions
1

Hi Guys,

When I have two or more Movies of the same that are different editions, I add the movies multiple times and rename them.

Does anyone know show to do this with TV series? When I add them and match it groups them with the original TV Series, so I cannot get it out of the play versions.

Thanks,

2

Plex doesn’t currently support editions for tv-show based content. There’s a feature suggestion to close this gap (iirc this was also discussing the complexities of Plex should support this for shows in total or different editions of episodes etc).

3

I found a way, but its jankie, mostly due to new content added.

For anyone else, if you click “the show” > More > Split Apart

After the split, when new episodes are added plex adds it the wrong tv series and they get mixed up. This feels like a bug???

4

You can only split shows if the episodes are organized in different show-level folders.
After you’ve split them, newly added episodes will show up in the split-show which is linked to that folder.
Not a bug… but workarounds can only get you that far (and Plex does not yet support editions for tv-shows).

5

I am not sure if you have multiple tv shows that you are wanting to do this with. But a fairly easy and manageable workaround would be to create a new library and name it appropriately and add all the shows that match that description.

For example if most of your shows are widescreen you would have a library called [ TV Shows ] with the majority of you television show library here. Then for all of the ones that are a duplicate shows but in 4:3 standard you could name this library something like [ TV Shows (4:3) ] and add the respective shows to this library. This way you can just navigate to the library format you wish to watch.

Hope this helps