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Specials Ordering within Show?
posted by HarryMessSTAFFMOD on March 17, 2024 at 3:52 AM
Hi! I'm new to TMDB, so please bear with me. I don't really know how things work around here.
I have been adding Red vs. Blue to my Plex recently and am using TMDB for the episode ordering. I have noticed a couple of quirks with it that I wanted to ask about and see if there's a way to fix.
The first, and hopefully the easiest, is the order that episodes play on the whole. It seems like they're playing entirely based on air date, which leads to annoying things like the Film Versions of seasons playing as well as the regular episodes, and the Out of Mind miniseries being interrupted by S05E01. Is there a way to set a specific order for them, to have the film versions not play in between seasons, and to make sure the miniseries are in the right spots?
The second, and possibly also fixable by adding a fixed episode ordering, are the PSAs. They're added in almost a totally random order. Sometimes they're grouped properly with the other PSAs from that year/season, but for example the first two (specials episodes 8 and 9) are from the second lot of PSAs, and the rest of that group are around Specials episode 120. I understand that if all the episode numbers were changed around it would mean anyone with the episodes set up already would have to rename them all, but it seems like there's gotta be a better way to list all these PSAs. Or, if they can be ordered into the right seasons along with the first issue, that'd be somewhat better. The PSA "Return to Work!" is also missing.
If there is a way to do the episode ordering then I'm happy to do the work, I just don't know how or if it's possible.
Thanks in advance
Reply by HarryMess
on March 17, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Ah, so I've just learned that Plex will play Specials in order of air date, and so there's probably no specific ordering setup on TMDB, which messes up all of my suggestions. I assume that the "Episode Groups" feature is supposed to do this kinda thing, but the "Story Arcs" group set up does not include any of the mini-series. I also don't know how to, if it's possible at all, use this alternative ordering in Plex.
I've also just realised that the reason Out of Mind Pt. 5 was after S5E1 is because it had the second air date rather than the original one. I've updated that, so it should play with the rest of the mini-series.
EDIT 20/03: Having now had a full look through and reported a couple issues, I can confirm the specials season is in a hell of a messy order. But again, without redoing all the specials numbering and messing up people's libraries, it seems like they have to stay as is. You can probably just close this discussion unless anyone can fill me in on anything I'm missing.