But they’re different. Movies allow the folder structure to work because of how the scanner works. Folders play little part in how Movies are scanned. The extras, which are a fairly new addition to Plex, don’t work properly 1 in 5 times. Movies have no need to pay any attention to Season folders, so it’s easy to implement a folder query. The Series Scanner only pays attention to the Season folders if it can’t get the needed season information off the file itself. You can put S03E12.mp4 in Season 8 folder & Plex will put it in season 3. If you have 12.mkv in Season 8 Plex will classify it as S08E12 because it didn’t have any information. The more folders you go down the more errors you have to account for. So 2 Broke Girls \ Season 4 \ Special Features \ Deleted Scenes is just asking for problems. & Plex is more afraid of problems than they are about improvements. You don’t loose many customers very fast by not being quick to make improvements, but having problems for a single day will loose customers. Maybe you could get a Season Special Features folder. That’d be nice, but then it’d have no Metadata, you’d have to manually title it, but that’s not what you want, so instead,with YOUR request the ONLY answer is Nothing at all
So it appears we disagree
Well yes, but it’s more than that, you seem to be “understanding” things in a way that is factually untrue.
Still no solution adding my own trailers? 
I mean you have the “Specials” Season 00. I’d recommend using episode numbers in the 200, 300, etc range
@LostOnTheLine
Meh… I will go with the season 00 thing (starting at season 100 to avoid overlaps), but finally I really dislike this solution as it does not return the filename as title and I do not want to make manual changes to the plex database.
Plex never returns file names for Metadata, unless you have it set to Personal Media but that’s worse. & as far as I know there aren’t any Metadata sources that have trailers. You can use an alternative Series Scanner like Absolute Series Scanner & it’ll automatically number anything without a number in the 500s & use the file name as the title. I personally think that’s a lot more work than naming a trailer in the Plex desktop interface, but I guess if you have a lot it might be. Now that I think about it it might be nice to get a coded specials numbering, like have plex automatically title anything numbered 999 as Trailer maybe 998 as Extended Trailer or Preview Episode
Hence the feature suggestion to actually add proper support for local media assets – as much as you don’t like to hear that 
You could list Tom and Jerry The Movie as a movie with proper extras - and add it to a Tom and Jerry Collection wherein the show and any ‘Movies’ you have will be displayed together (in all clients, eventually, but most, for now):
Here’s The Movie:
Here’s my “Fargo” Show Collection - named the same as my “Fargo” Movie Collection - that works like this both ways:
Your Collections would be named: Tom and Jerry, of course.
It would absolutely be a work-around… but ATM a ‘work-around’ is all you got. You’re doing one work-around… there’s another one.
Here it is looking back the other way:
How is this still not a thing. Just about to add Twin Peaks Season 3 Extras and still no proper way to do it??
I agree. I read these ridiculous arguments up above. I’m a developer. I get handed assignments all the time and sometimes to implement a feature my gut reaction is “this is going to break the world”. But you know what, clients want that feature, and the business has deemed it necessary. So as developers you have to sit down and figure out a solution. That’s your job. Stop second guessing here if it can/can’t be done. Just do it already. You won’t please everyone, but at least there will be solution.
Well from that logic they shouldn’t do it at all. Only 300 of us have voted for it. That’s not very many, & much less than the people who would be pissed off because of the change
Now now. We all know Plex doesn’t care about how many people get pissed off when they add a new feature. So that part should not be relevant to the equation.
(This is not to be confused with how many people get pissed off when they remove or replace a existing feature. I’m sure Plex cares about that.)
This is not a movie. The poster is the main image of the Specials category of the Tom & Jerry TV show at TVDB:
Its really an extra of the show itself. For example one special is “Much Ado About Tom and Jerry” (short documentary about the history of Tom & Jerry)
Add my name to the list along with the vote.
Consider, this feature request is becoming more focused. Over half of the discussion is from the last 6 months alone, and this is a 5-year old request.
As for the request itself, we have known for decades that extras come with TV shows. Interviews, behind the scenes, deleted scenes, outtakes. Some are series dependent, some season dependent, while others are episode dependent. I imagine most of the issue is with filename to DB linking. Consider the use of IMDB linking {TT012345}. That same style can be used to link extras to seasons or episodes.
Season 00 - Series level extras. No work required.
Series Name - {s01} - descriptive_name-extratype.mp4 - Season level extras
Series Name - {s01e05} - descriptive_name-extratype.mp4 - Episode level extras.
Obviously the link deliminator can be different, but it highlights how one can link using the same format. There would be no chance of collision as the {} and -extratype would ensure this file is extra, not an episode. It’s also quite self descriptive for the filenames, just like in movies. It also is compatible with inline and directory based approaches.
Additionally, to enhance a directory based approach,
TV Shows
/Series Name
/Season 00
series-level-extras.mkv
/Season 01
Series Name - {s01} - inline season level-featurette.mkv
Series Name - s01e01 - inline episode.mkv
Series Name - {s01e01} - inline episode-interview.mkv
/Season 02
/Behind the Scenes
descriptive_name.mkv // Season level Behind the scenes directory
/Episode 01 - Episode Name
episode name.mkv // File path /TV Shows/Series Name/Season 01/Episode 01 - Episode Name/episode name.mkv
/Deleted Scenes
descriptive_name.mkv // File path /TV Shows/Series Name/Season 01/Episode 01 - Episode Name/Deleted Scenes/descriptive_name.mkv
Both provide DB hints, both inline as well as directory based and allows Series, Season, and Episode level extras.
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Hello there,
Pretty new to Plex myself, but I just wanted to pipe in and say that I too would love this feature. Being able to have the extras at the season level at the very least would be amazing (I saw the workaround of adding the features as extra episodes in a season and think I will likely do that for now, clever idea)!
Be sure to Vote at the top of the thread under the number of votes, next to the title
Already done 
Just want to thank you all for continuing to discuss this. I’m an extras nerd like many of you and great behind-the-scenes and other features for TV shows get me excited to buy those discs and put them on my beloved Plex server.
