TV shows/specials and naming of posters issue

Since I had to rebuild my Plex directories, I have been taking the time to include things just as title cards for episodes, and for having the server auto recognize the season poster as well as the show. However, I am running into an issue with getting the poster for the specials to show up correctly.

I have gone through the guide here; Local Media Assets - TV Shows | Plex Support and thats how I got everything else to work. I tried every variant I could for the specials poster to be recognized, (without manually adding it through the edit button) and I can’t get it to work.

Is there something I am missing here? For instance, in my Stargate SG-1 folder, I have all the seasons and those work fine. I have 1 specials folder that has the 10 years of Stargate special in it. That file is named “Stargate SG1 (2006) - S00E01 - Ten Years of Stargate SG-1”. For the specials folder, I have a jpeg for it named “season00”, since all of the other seasons are “season01” “season02” etc.

From https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220717-local-media-assets-tv-shows/

Season Posters

To add a custom poster image for particular Seasons in a show, name the image file as follows:

  • /TV Shows/ShowName/Season XX/SeasonXX.ext

Where XX is the season number. If you’re specifying the poster for a “Specials” season, use season-specials-poster instead.

I dont know what was so different from before, but now the “season-specials-poster” works.

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