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So - a search turning up old threads seems to suggest this did not used to be possible unless I go through and start merging files - which would be highly impractical to do across an entire pre-existing video collection. I figured I would ask if there's a good way to do this now that isn't editing a ton of files. Setup: I have a (largely old TV) media collection It's not uncomon for me to do rerun-shuffling Many shows have "Part 1" "Part 2" "Part 3" or even "Part 4" continuations. I would really like to set it up so that when I shuffle a TV show (or a library, or a genre, or whatever), if it hits one of the multi-part episodes, it plays through all the parts sequentially like it was one long video - always starting with Part 1, without me needing to go through and edit every multi-episode plot in my collection to merge the files. I'm good with renaming some files or manually editing my NFO files after scraping the normal episode data to make it happen. But while I don't mind renaming a few hundred files to make it happen across my library as I could do that on a couple days I'm not busy, drawing it out to one every hour or something while my computer processes videos for months would be an insurmountable barrier to doing it. So like: https://thetvdb.com/series/stargate-atlantis/seasons/official/1 If I go to shuffle Stargate Atlantis, as I often do - Emby would ideally treat "Rising" 1 & 2 as just "Rising" (in playlists, in playback, in season view), and then I could just use the metadata from "Rising (1)". Is there a way to do that through Emby in 2022, or is that still unsupported?

I have read the WIKI on how to structure multi-part movies, here is my layout: \MKVs (Blu-ray)\The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)-disc1.mkv The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)-disc2.mkv \The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003)The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003)-disc1.mkv The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003)-disc2.mkv \The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (2002)The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (2002)-disc1.mkv The Lord of the Rings - The Two Towers (2002)-disc2.mkv The web client can see the second disc, it is listed under "Additional Parts" but I don't see a way to start the second disc under MBC or MBT. I assume the play button should expand to ask me which disc to start but it doesn't and the chapters from the second disc aren't shown in any interface (web, MBC or MBT) so I can't access it that way.