TV Naming

[funwithmedia 369]

Try editing the info for one of those specials and see if you see anything that might be related to that...

 

(I'm not trying to be obtuse.  I'm trying to discover why it wasn't obvious to you in the first place so we can improve)

Sure thing -- I totally understand! 

 

What I had done first (and which didn't work) was just enter a number for "Airs before episode." Since this particular show only has 1 season I overlooked the importance of the "Airs before season" setting, but that is likely what I would have tried next. So I don't know that anything else needs to be done different.

 

 

If the server knows they are specials you can tell it where to appear. 

 

 

Along with this setting "Display specials within seasons they aired in".  Dashboard-Library-Display

  <airsbefore_episode>1</airsbefore_episode>
  <airsbefore_season>10</airsbefore_season>

Thanks much for this!

 

So, I'm still not seeing quite what I was looking for though. Say I have two specials: Special1 and Special2. I'd like Special1 to be displayed before Episode1, and Special2 to be displayed before Episode2. However, setting Special1 to "Airs before season: 1" and "Airs before episode: 1" and Special2 to "Airs before season: 1" and "Airs before episode: 2" results in the following order in ET: Special1, Special2, Episode1, Episode2, etc. So the specials are at least displayed with the season now, but they're not getting interspersed properly. Is this expected behavior, or I am continuing to miss things (entirely possible!)?

 

Special1 and Special2 have a Season of 0, and Episode numbers of 1 and 2 respectively, in case that matters here.

[Happy2Play 9384]

Test example from web client one special before episode 1 and one special before episode 2.  Structure special in season 0 and episodes in season 6.

 

[funwithmedia 369]

Thank you -- that's good to know it is supposed to work that way!

 

So upon further investigation, I discovered that the Episodes themselves did not have Episode #'s, and so that is why things were not working right. Emby had pulled in metadata for the series itself (from TMDB), but no Episode details (as those are only TMDB, and not TVDB, and I needed to add the TMDB for Episode metadata fetching). I knew I was lacking Plots (but this is a tiny, obscure series that wasn't too surprising), but as the items were displayed in the correct order I hadn't realized Episode #'s had not actually been assigned in the metadata itself (which was ultimately my own fault--this particular series is short [only 7 episodes], so I hadn't been too particular about the filenaming when it seemed like Emby was picking them up fine). So definitely user-error on my part.

 

Thank you everyone for your help!

[CharleyVarrick 283]

For tv shows, I use on a daily basis a neat little freeware appropriately called Name My TV Series (google it).

It has never failed me in properly naming specials/extra episodes. Give it a spin.

 

It does pull episode names from TV DB, so the info has to be available over there for it to work as expected.

Edited January 27, 2017 by jlr19

[funwithmedia 369]

That looks really nifty -- thanks for sharing! For others interested, here's the link:
https://www.tweaking4all.com/home-theatre/rename-your-tv-series-files/

 

It does appear that Name My TV Series does not yet support naming for multi-episode files, which is a requirement I have.

 

However, I've been trying out FileBot ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/filebot/ ), recommended to me by @@Happy2Play ( https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/43307-transitioning-to-emby-how-to-programmatically-add-many-items-to-collections/?p=404348 ), and it has worked pretty well in my limited testing (and it supports multi-episode filenaming, as long as you get the syntax right).