Multi-part file for single episode?

[piecesofme 3]

Hi, 

I've already searched the wiki/knowledge base but I didn't see anything about this. I know how to name a file that has several episodes in one file. But I can't figure out how to name a single episode that is split into two files. In Plex, it uses: Title - S01E01 - Episode Name-pt01 (you can also use Part01, cd1, etc). Then it sees these two files as two parts of the one episode and plays them back to back (and it also shows the total running time of the two files). Does Emby do this by chance or is there a way to make it do something similar? Thanks in advance!

[CentWind 4]

If you have multiple files corresponding to one episode.
You can name it like you do:
SHOW NAME-S1E01-part1
SHOW NAME-S1E02-part2
Then, emby will recognize them as an episode. In the interface, you can find "Split Versions Apart" so that it can be separated.

Pay attention to the naming, and then it will be sorted by file name.
Now you will find that you have two first episodes.

[CBers 7451]

2 hours ago, piecesofme said:

Hi, 

I've already searched the wiki/knowledge base but I didn't see anything about this. I know how to name a file that has several episodes in one file. But I can't figure out how to name a single episode that is split into two files. In Plex, it uses: Title - S01E01 - Episode Name-pt01 (you can also use Part01, cd1, etc). Then it sees these two files as two parts of the one episode and plays them back to back (and it also shows the total running time of the two files). Does Emby do this by chance or is there a way to make it do something similar? Thanks in advance!

Why not just join the parts together?
 

[MBSki 1114]

@piecesofme I just name the same as Plex, but doing so means you need to select the specific part (ie version) you want when watching. I hadn't thought of splitting them apart, but I like that idea.

@CentWind When you split them apart do you need to manually update the metadata for those episodes and then lock the metadata? Have you tried this with a trakt.tv sync?

[CentWind 4]

1 hour ago, mbarylski said:

@CentWind When you split them apart do you need to manually update the metadata for those episodes and then lock the metadata? Have you tried this with a trakt.tv sync?

Are you saying that you need to update metadata regularly?

The method I'm talking about is just a method I found that can achieve the effect I need. I think this method is not officially recommended by emby.

From my understanding, there is no need to manually update or lock the metadata. The two video files were identified as S1E01 at the beginning. This operation of spliting is just to make the two episodes directly appear in the interface, which seems to be different parts.
The essence of this function is the same as that of the different versions in the movie.

I am very sorry that my English is not very good, and some of the meanings may not be very accurate.

[CentWind 4]

2 hours ago, mbarylski said:

Have you tried this with a trakt.tv sync?

sorry, I don't use trakt.tv. I tried it before, but it doesn't work on my server. I can't sync anything.

And it doesn't have Chinese, so I give up using it.

[MBSki 1114]

57 minutes ago, CentWind said:

Are you saying that you need to update metadata regularly?

The method I'm talking about is just a method I found that can achieve the effect I need. I think this method is not officially recommended by emby.

From my understanding, there is no need to manually update or lock the metadata. The two video files were identified as S1E01 at the beginning. This operation of spliting is just to make the two episodes directly appear in the interface, which seems to be different parts.
The essence of this function is the same as that of the different versions in the movie.

The metadata will update on the refresh cycle chosen for the library and I'm thinking if the episodes are split that it will actually show 3 episodes for the 2 parts. I'm not sure about that though so I'll have to test on my beta server.

[Luke 42080]

This is something we can look at improving support for in future updates. In the meantime I would suggest splitting the versions apart and/or joining the files. Thanks.

[JoshuaAJones 68]

We're all quite aware of how NF messed up the first season (outside of Spain).
In order to get things back on track, I renamed the episodes like this:

• S01E01-part1 - Do as Planned
• S01E01-part2 - Do as Planned
• S01E02 - Lethal Negligence
• S01E03 - Misfire
• S01E04-part1 - Trojan Horse
• S01E04-part2 - Trojan Horse
• S01E05 - Groundhog Day
• S01E06-part1 - The Hot Cold War
• S01E06-part2 - The Hot Cold War
• S01E07 - Cool Instability
• S01E08-part1 - You Asked for It
• S01E08-part2 - You Asked for It
• S01E09 - Whoever Keeps Trying It, Gets It
• S01E10 - Masked No Longer
• S01E11 - The Head of the Plan
• S01E12 - A Matter of Efficiency
• S01E13-part1 - What Have We Done
• S01E13-part2 - What Have We Done
• S01E14-part1 - Against the Clock
• S01E14-part2 - Against the Clock
• S01E15-part1 - Bye Beautiful
• S01E15-part2 - Bye Beautiful

This took care of the first 22 episodes and got Seasons 2 & 3 back on track and the episode descriptions tend to line up (-ish).  I used episode length to arrange them.
Not sure of a better way to get things sorted besides combining the episodes but I'd need to cut out the excessive credits to get it to flow better.

Note:  I do have to stop Part 1 after it finishes and select Part 2 to play to get this to work.  It would be nice if file stacking worked for the TV shows but I'll manage.

Edited December 7, 2021 by JoshuaAJones

[rbjtech 5284]

Either use the NF 'versions' and name accordingly (manually for Part1/2) or use the original versions with the automatic metadata.

NF edited the Spanish show not only in episode length, but also content.  They are not the same - so do not try and 'cross reference' them - it is not possible to accurately do this.

I have the NF versions - so Part 1 & 2 do not have 'names' just Episode numbers - same as what's on NF.

[JoshuaAJones 68]

While I do see your point, automatic metadata will not work correctly, as people keep naming things in accordance with inferior sources (like iMDb).

There are only 3 seasons of Money Heist, not 5 (or 6).  I renamed my files to coincide with this so that Trakt would work for me. Others can do as they wish.

People understand that all of TWD series have 2 parts but any other show that does the same becomes a different season (i.e. Sabrina).

Personally, I use theTVDb for all of my TV scraping.

[Happy2Play 9782]

4 minutes ago, JoshuaAJones said:

While I do see your point, automatic metadata will not work correctly, as people keep naming things in accordance with inferior sources (like iMDb).

There are only 3 seasons of Money Heist, not 5 (or 6).  I renamed my files to coincide with this so that Trakt would work for me. Others can do as they wish.

People understand that all of TWD series have 2 parts but any other show that does the same becomes a different season (i.e. Sabrina).

Personally, I use theTVDb for all of my TV scraping.

Yes these are problematic as how each provider handles them differently.

Emby does not yet support TMDB episode groups but you would appear to have this one.  But TVDB and TMDB do not provide episode names in this case for this group of episodes.

Money Heist (TV Series 2017-2021) - Seasons (edited version) (Digital) — The Movie Database (TMDB) (themoviedb.org)

So in the end there will be manual work.  Or users sharing then info they have for these specific series.

[rbjtech 5284]

12 hours ago, JoshuaAJones said:

While I do see your point, automatic metadata will not work correctly, as people keep naming things in accordance with inferior sources (like iMDb).

There are only 3 seasons of Money Heist, not 5 (or 6).  I renamed my files to coincide with this so that Trakt would work for me. Others can do as they wish.

People understand that all of TWD series have 2 parts but any other show that does the same becomes a different season (i.e. Sabrina).

Personally, I use theTVDb for all of my TV scraping.

You can call the 'group' what you like - thus I have named them 'Parts' - to exactly match NF - that's why there are 6 of them.

As far as I am concerned NONE of the metadata providers have data to match NF - so I did it all manually.

Edited December 7, 2021 by rbjtech

[nospotify 184]

Naming of mulit-part show episodes isn't working for me - attached are images of the actual file structure and naming, using 'part1, part2' as I believe properly reflects Emby's guidelines, followed by incorrect handling in Emby. How can this be fixed, so the three episodes, with two parts each, are all visible as well as correctly titled?

[rbjtech 5284]

If you have combined the parts, then you need to use the dvd order in metadata - otherwise it will just use the aired order - which was multiple parts.

change to DVD ...

then it will use this from thetvdb.com - in DVD order

if you want to keep the multi-parts - then just name them correctly - (aired order) - again from thetvdb ..

 

Cracker - TheTVDB.com

 

Edited November 30, 2022 by rbjtech

[pwhodges 2012]

His problem's the opposite - the individual episodes are further broken up into two parts.  I don't even know if that's meant to be supported for episodes as opposed to movies.

As always, the best advice is to join the parts using MKVToolNix.  In this case, the easiest way to get that to work for the subtitles as well will be to merge them in at the same time - that way the program knows the time offset to apply to the subs for the second part.

Paul

[rbjtech 5284]

6 minutes ago, pwhodges said:

His problem's the opposite - the individual episodes are further broken up into two parts.  I don't even know if that's meant to be supported for episodes as opposed to movies.

As always, the best advice is to join the parts using MKVToolNix.  In this case, the easiest way to get that to work for the subtitles as well will be to merge them in at the same time - that way the program knows the time offset to apply to the subs for the second part.

Paul

Hmm possibly - if somebody has taken a 3 part aired show and split into 2 parts - they really have screwed with things !

if that is the case - You are of course correct, then the only way to get correct metadata (automatically) is to merge into one file per episode - and use dvd order as I said above.  

 

 

Edited November 30, 2022 by rbjtech