TV Show Extras

[joberwetter]

So I’m adding “The Man from U.N.C.L.E” to my Plex library. In season 3 I encountered an episode that has two versions. There is the normal version, and then one where they left in old narration saying things like, “Stay tuned for a preview of next weeks show!”

I’m wondering what people do with these extras that ‘theTVDB’ does not list this under “specials.”

I just put them in under Season 00, with escalating episode numbers, but since they are not in ‘thetvdb,’ they just show up as “episode whatever” in season 00 in Plex… Is there a way to get Plex to recognize and name these as there is with movie extras?

What do you all do to handle these?

Thanks!

[NewPlaza]

You can with LMA and MP4/M4V files.

Adding a tv show that is partially on The TVDB

Okay. If thetvdb displays only the first 108 episodes (or 108 scattered/out of order) then you can add them to thetvdb yourself or you can add them in plex at a much higher episode number. My example is the tv show “cops” [cops] [cops2] [cops3] I started the episode count at 100 because I could not verify what episode correctly goes in what order so I didn’t what plex to match plot summary/synopsis incorrectly. I could started at episode 50 cause no season has 50 episodes(most is season 5 …

Look at the last screenshot.

[joberwetter]

Aha!
Of course my server is on a Mac… But this headed me in a good direction. I can edit the titles of individual episodes inside the Plex Server itself!

Thank You!

[NewPlaza]

@joberwetter

I can edit the titles of individual episodes inside the Plex Server itself!

True that but I would recommend you edit the TAGS if they are MP4 because you will never need to edit the titles again if your server goes bust or you decide to add them to another library… I don’t know Apple but am sure you can edit mp4 titles either through the macOS or 3rd party apple program.