I know this has been done to death, but I cannot get it right. I use Filebot to correctly name the seasons and episodes, and it all seems to work correctly, until I try to stream
Then what happens is that Plex drops the 0 from the first ten episodes, which are numbered 01 to 09, and renames them to S01 E1, S01 E2 and … It then plays So1 E1 ok, but the next episode is S01 E10, and it carries on from there.
It seems to be reading the E1, and then assumes that the next episode is E10, then E11 and so on.
I am pretty sure that all would be good if I could make Plex stop dropping the 0 in front of the first 10 episodes.
It makes it virtually impossible for my wife, who has no computer nous at all, to watch any tv series on Plex.
From what you write I guess you have successfully added your files and they’re showing up in your library.
Plex won’t touch your files… however when displaying an episode in your library, it’ll show the season/episode information in a formatted way – this includes not displaying leading zeros (usually users consider that to be “better readable for humans” )
Or is this about filebot processing the files and dropping the leading zeroes in your file names?
If that’s the case… here’s some naming template for Filebot described in a different thread:
where /nas/tv/ was the individual user’s folder hosting their tv shows.
What is happening is that, altho the files in the TV Series folder on my computer are named correctly, when I open the folder on my DNLA tv, the order of the episodes is :S1 E1, S1 E10, S1 E11 and so on up until S1 E19 … the next episode is S1 E2, then S1 E21, up until the last episode of the season which is S1 E23. Then, the next episode is S1 E2 … up until Se E9.
Are you saying that this is normal behaviour,?
Makes it pretty hard to watch the series when every episode, you have to go searching for the next one …
Dave. (sorry I can’t explain it any clearer than that.)
Has nothing to do with his file names. He is saying the name of the episode in Plex is S1 E10 even though his file name is S01E01. Like a Roku will display S3 • E10 even though file is S03E10. It is Plex making it display like that and the DLNA client is treating the numbers as strings, rather than numbers cuz pretty much everything in a DLNA client is like a folder view.
There is nothing really you can do about it. except maybe use an Other Videos library and view by folder so it does not gather any online metadata and should display file name like it is sans extension. If you only use DLNA this maybe won’t be a big deal for you but it won’t get metadata and such for other clients.
I can’t make any promises there will be a change to make the display name not do that.
You misread.
It’s as per BigWheel’s feedback… Plex is providing the information for show/season/episode/title which are “stringified” by the DLNA client. The DLNA client will then sort that list of items alphabetically… in this case that means
Show S1 E1 Episode Name
Show S1 E10 Episode Name
Show S1 E11 Episode Name
Show S1 E12 Episode Name
...
Show S1 E19 Episode Name
Show S1 E2 Episode Name
Show S1 E20 Episode Name
...
The “searching” statement refers to the user needing to scroll through episodes 10-19 to get from episode 1 to 2.
As for that… this is working as per DLNA’s design (= Plex giving the adequate information, the DLNA client presenting them). So if the DLNA client is not capable of properly sorting its output, the OP’s choices are:
(a) look for a different DLNA client
(b) consider using the native Plex client (assuming there is one for that platform)
)
