How do I set a series to use a regional order?

[MBSki 1114]

I haven't seen this before, but a new The Smurfs (2021) show has multiple aired orders. It originally aired in Belgium, so in TheTVDB there is a regional order added. I'm in the US so I want to use the regional order, but there doesn't seem to be any way to tell Emby to use the regional order. Here's the regional order of the show: Les Schtroumpfs (2021) - USA - Season 1 - TheTVDB.com. And below is a screen shot of how Emby is interpreting the order. It's essentially using the Belgium order, or the default aired order. Is there any way to change it to use the regional order?

 

 

[Happy2Play 9785]

You currently can't as it requires a server core update to add Alternate and Regional, but will also require the TVDB v4 plugin once the server is updated.

Limited to Aired, DVD, and Absolute, currently.

Edited October 2, 2021 by Happy2Play

[MBSki 1114]

Ah, thanks. I assume that's on the to do list? Any suggestions in the meantime? Should I just set it to absolute and manually manage the episodes?

[Happy2Play 9785]

Currently right now it would be pretty much manually managed and Locked, as Emby would get Aired order as others do not exist.

[MBSki 1114]

So I set this show to absolute, but I don't understand what it's doing. Shouldn't it just list the episodes in order of what I put in the filename? It doesn't seem to be working that way.

Here's what it shows:

And here are my filenames:

[Happy2Play 9785]

Looks like confusions and creating mulit-episodes 0 thru 10 and 0 thru 14 so namings is not parsed correctly with this.  But since no Absolute order exists I would expect it to fallback to Aired.

No matter how you look at it, you have to manually edit each episode.  So I would pull aired order and manually change them or copy and paste then one by one.

[MBSki 1114]

1 hour ago, Happy2Play said:

So I would pull aired order and manually change them or copy and paste then one by one.

Ah, manually edit the metadata directly in Emby?

[Happy2Play 9785]

Just now, mbarylski said:

Ah, manually edit the metadata directly in Emby?

In Emby, another metadata manager, or even the nfo file directly.

But ensure the lock flag is enabled.

[MBSki 1114]

1 minute ago, Happy2Play said:

In Emby, another metadata manager, or even the nfo file directly.

But ensure the lock flag is enabled.

Got it, thanks.