How is Plex going to handle things with TheTVDB.com after they go live with their new API and policies at the beginning of October? If I understand correctly, the new usage policy will require payment for usage in commercial applications which means either Plex will have to pay or the charge will be…

[image] StreetSamurai: That’s because thetvdb now supports multiple episode orders (aired, dvd, absolute) where they used to support only a single order. That’s not true. It was already for years that there were Aired, Absolute, and DVD. Among which you can pick in Plex, per tv show. What i…

I stand corrected. I missed seeing the Episode ordering select under Advanced for series. I guess it had never come into play for me for any of my series until now, even for Firefly where the aired and DVD order are completely different.

That’s weird. The Firefly issue is the classic example why support for the different orderings was implemented. So your episode numbers were either named in “aired” ordering (which causes continuity issues while watching) or you never watched it in Plex :wink:

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OttoKerner September 20, 2021, 11:58am 2

Plex user don’t need to concern themselves with these details.
Plex has an agreement with TheTVDB for continued use of their data.

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