Special Episode Detected as Version of Episode with different index

[ginjaninja 605]

Tested on 4.7.13 (no reason to think [recent] version is particularly relevant)

A firestick user reported Chernobyl only had 'trailers'..a bit of investigation showed why...

S00E02 is being detected / marked as S01E01 by a refresh metadata/scan.
a substring match on the episode name seems to be enough to make it a version despite the indexes being different - is that a bug?

Spoiler

possibly not helped by the fact that the specials do not exist on TVDB

https://thetvdb.com/series/chernobyl/seasons/official/0

 

i believe my episodes fit the prescribed the emby naming scheme...and  marking extras as special is the supported way for tv extras to show.

 

 

[Luke 42083]

Hi, there is actually no multi-version detection for episodes. It's all driven by the season and episode numbers that were parsed from the files names. When those values are the same, they get grouped.

So my guess is this is just a hard example. There's so many numbers in the file name that it's not surprising that one of them was mistakenly picked up as the episode number.

[ginjaninja 605]

6 hours ago, Luke said:

Hi, there is actually no multi-version detection for episodes. It's all driven by the season and episode numbers that were parsed from the files names. When those values are the same, they get grouped.

So my guess is this is just a hard example. There's so many numbers in the file name that it's not surprising that one of them was mistakenly picked up as the episode number.

Spoiler

i dont think thats the full story...it seems if there is a substring match in the "episode name" then the index is overridden and the special seen as episode on this series*

Chernobyl - S00E02 - Inside the Episodes (Episode 1 - 1-23-45 some text).mkv is parsed as season 1 episode 1

Chernobyl - S00E02 - Inside the Episodes (Episode 1 - 1-23-55).mkv is parsed as season 0 episode 2

the same is happening for other episodes in series....even without funny numbers or "Episode #" in filename to confuse.

 

i am pretty sure there is no way to parse

Chernobyl - S00E03 - text (Please Remain Calm).mkv

as S01E02

*however i cant force the issue on another series by artificially making a substring match in a special so i havent got to the bottom of it.

granted its not a big deal and i can overide the parsed index....so may not be worth worrying about. To some extent subsstring matches in specials could be the root of some useful functionality to identify specials which are often changing indexes...i wouldnt want the baby to be thrown out with the bathwater..it seemed like a point of interest.

 

 

 

[Luke 42083]

I would try fixing up the numbers manually I’m the metadata editor and see if that helps.