I have a 7 year TV series that I am trying to put on my QNAP server. I selected the “Extras” that I want to include in the 1st season. I think I have tried just about everything except the right combination. I could use some help and suggestions. Everything works except a folder that shows the extras.
Here’s what I’ve tried.
…TV Series
…Season 01
…TV Series S01E01-Name.mkv
…TV Series S01E02-Name.mkv
…TV Series NAME-behindthescenes.mkv
I tried a separate folder called “Behind the Scenes” and put the file there. I’m at a loss for next steps.
Unfortunately Plex TV Libraries don’t support Extras like the Movie Libraries do. They’ll have to be shoehorned into the “Specials” support that the TV Libraries have:
You can look in the TVDB’s ‘Season 0’ to see what is already there and then bump the other stuff up in the numbers to get them in. Only stuff listed in the TVDB will have metadata though. I usually start my extras at S00E50 since most tv shows don’t have specials that run to 50.
It does not have a “Season 0” just a “Special”. Here’s where I’m confused. Do I create a folder called “Specials”, “Season 00” or neither.
The only place I can get it to show up is in the “TV Shows” along with every other show I have. It thinks it is a show of its own. It shows as “Season 00” with one episode.
Is there a way to move it into the top show position in a folder along side the 7 season’s folders?
Thanks,
Put a season folder called “Specials” and name the files as “S00EXX” so they populate.
TV
Show1
Season 1
Specials
Show2
As mentioned you want to number them above existing things to prevent bad metadata matching for existing things. TheTVDB requires specials in its system to be broadcast, it doesn’t allow dvd features kinda items. As such, you will have to manually input all the metadata. You can strictly add these items to any season as you are just manually putting in episodes, but generaly the specials is more useful to seperate it from the core show.
So for instance I am working on the new “Stargate SG-1” Bluray set, as the existing “Specials” season only has 9 items I started all of my disc bonus items at S00E10 because the show due to its age will not be increasing.
Thank you! Making real progress. Only one thing remains. I’m using the – Optional_Info trying to label the “content” of the clip. It doesn’t seem to work. Right now, I have two clips that are named S00E50 and S00E51. At the bottom of the clip is labels it as S00E50 and S00E51 stacked on top of each other.
Is it possible to have the clip picture labeled for what I want?
The “optional info” part is basically just what you’ll be using to identify files in your file explorer. Plex will not use this – not even for episodes where it cannot find metadata… in such a case, Plex will just show the items as “Episode {X}”. This is unless you have your library configured to consider embedded metadata – in which case the embedded title will be used.
Personally I try to steer clear from embedded metadata with tv-shows as it can give you some weird results (e.g. accidentally matching a show based on the file’s embedded metadata instead of file names).
It’s worth to keep in mind that the online databases used by Plex usually reserve “specials” to be actual specials (e.g. X-Mas/holiday specials…), not the classical extras you might get from a disc. As piskieee pointed out, there’s currently no good solution for those unless you stick to manually labelling them from within Plex (which can be painful and those updates will be lost if you have to rebuild your library).
There’s a 3rd party agent that aims at finding extras for shows/seasons/episodes – those will even be displayed in a few Plex clients.
And… there’s of course a feature suggestion for Plex to officially support dvd-type extras to for shows/seasons/episodes (incl. properly reflecting them in the Plex apps.
