Order and Metadata manual/additional setting for API?

[Skyobliwind 4]

I'm trying to get the SpongeBob series correctly into my libary. I have all Episodes in "joined" format (so 2 episodes in one file). This ordering is available on TVDB as "Alternate" order for the API and is also used on IMDB. BUT it seems it's neither possible to set "Alternate" for the TVDB Order Settings in the Series metadata options (only aired, dvd and absolute order are available there) nor is it possible to use IMDBs order for series in general.

So whatever I select it just puts the names of the first half of all episodes in and just says the other half is missing...

How can I fix this problem? It would be cool if an "Alternate" order setting for TVDB Metadata could be added. See https://www.thetvdb.com/series/spongebob-squarepants#seasons -> joined order for more information. They explicitly state "Usable as "Alternate Order" in API-connected systems" under the joined order format.

 

Regards

[pwhodges 1848]

You can specify that a file contains multiple episodes of the order that's available.  So the first couple of joined episodes can be specified using Aired order as: s01e01-e03, s01e04-e05, and so on.  Emby will then concatenate the episode descriptions.

Supporting alternate orders in Emby is a well-known outstanding feature request, but hasn't happened yet.

Paul

Edited November 23, 2024 by pwhodges