Is this possible... same show, same metadata source, different entry?

[Dreakon13 143]

There's an anime called Detective Conan/Case Closed.  The first airing of English dubbed episodes happened quite a while ago and ran about 100 episodes.  Recently they started putting out new dubbed episodes with a new VA cast starting at about episode 960.

Technically it's the same show so I could have one Case Closed in my Anime/Television library and that might work.

Personally, with the new voice actors and the massive jump in episodes, I see the new dub as an entirely different entity and I would like to have two Case Closed's in my Anime library, Case Closed and Case Closed (New Dub).  I put both sets of episodes into separate folders, but once it identified them as the same show, it merged them together.

Is it possible to have two separate shows in my Anime library that are both identified as Case Closed and pull in their respective metadata?

 

Thank you

Edited March 30, 2023 by Dreakon13

[GrimReaper 4749]

Are they listed as separate shows with the providers? 

[Dreakon13 143]

4 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Are they listed as separate shows with the providers? 

No, TheTVDB (which is what I'd probably use) just has the one entry for Detective Conan/Case Closed.  The situation with the English dub just jumps from episode 120-something to 960-something with new voice actors.  I'd like to treat them as their own separate things, but understand if it doesn't really work that way.

As a side note, when it did merge them together, the 960+ episodes weren't pulling in metadata.  Is that because the absolute ordering goes too high?

Edited March 30, 2023 by Dreakon13

[GrimReaper 4749]

Pull out that new dub folder out of your root, run Scan media library task, disable "Automatically merge series that are spread accross multiple folders" library option, put dub folder back, Scan media library. 

[GrimReaper 4749]

9 minutes ago, Dreakon13 said:

As a side note, when it did merge them together, the 960+ episodes weren't pulling in metadata.

How are your files named and organized? 

[Dreakon13 143]

7 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Pull out that new dub folder out of your root, run Scan media library task, disable "Automatically merge series that are spread accross multiple folders" library option, put dub folder back, Scan media library. 

Perfect, never knew that was there.  Thank you!

Edited March 30, 2023 by Dreakon13

[Dreakon13 143]

  

1 minute ago, GrimReaper said:

How are your files named and organized? 

[GrimReaper 4749]

Three-dots/right click menu on your Series>Edit Metadata>change Display order from Aired to Absolute>Save>Refresh metadata. 

[Dreakon13 143]

2 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Three-dots/right click menu on your Series>Edit Metadata>change Display order from Aired to Absolute>Save>Refresh metadata. 

Duh... I'm an idiot. 

That worked, thank you again!