The difference with movies though is that movies are… stop me if I’m wrong… different from TV Shows.
For Plex if there’s a movie folder & you have just about any video file in that folder Plex says “Hey, this must be a different version of that movie” so it’s easy to have folders in that movie’s folder & Plex can recognize them as specials, Things that only get played if a user selects them from the menu & CHOOSES to play them. Then after they play the user expects Plex to return to the Menu.
TV Shows aren’t like that. There’s a LOT more that goes into TV Shows. “What order do these go in?”, “After this plays, what plays next?”, “After this set ends, what plays next?”. Plex historically had a hard time handling folders properly in TV Shows, I assume it’s gotten better, but I don’t actually know because I use, more or less, the Plex Official Naming Structure. For that to work Plex pretty much ignores the Folders unless it can’t find the information from the file. This makes MY organization easier because I can use the naming system to my advantage. Shows like Dragonball, that have many “Arcs” within a season I can have separated so that I have “Season 1.1 - Saiyan Arc” & “Season 1.2 - Namek Arc” & still have them organized properly within Plex. After the scanner has determined what the Files are it THEN has to send it to the Metadata Agent to determine how to label it. We have enough issues with Plex trying to guess that make it harder to manage things. Like my earlier example of the Incremental Episodes. Plex sees S01E07 & It assumes everything else is an Ear Elephant & puts it as another version of Episode 7. What you want is for Plex to automatically detect if the folder has a key word telling it to treat something differently, this is going to cause problems. What words are triggers? How are those triggers handled? Plex has a big limitation in that its Scanner’s word is final, you cannot manually adjust it. Which I see the benefits of, even if I don’t like it. If, say, you use this series of words to identify a folder to be ignored as a regular season & someone in another language uses that word or something that get’s recognized as it, & they end up having a Season that they cannot have as a regular season. That creates a problem that they have to do a lot more to get around. I have a series that I have to do something like that for already. The Show is called 3x3 Eyes. No matter what I do it assumes every file labeled 3x3 Eyes S01E02, or whatever as Season 3, Episode 3 of the show. So I have to have the files named Three x Three Eyes. This is horrible & pisses me off. Sure those are more rare occurrences, but what you are suggesting will create much more problems that will inconvenience a lot more people. So would it be better to make it harder on a bunch of people, have more code error problems with the conditional qualifications, make scans take longer, to add something that would help the few, in a way that can pretty much be done already, just not conveniently, & inconvenience many?
