Please Put Back Specials Option!!

[NeverExists 21]

Hi, I don't know why you guys removed the option to show specials among the season episodes. This option is crucial in anime. To remove the option to toggle it on or off is totally dumb and serves no purpose except to disregard the people who need this option on. This is one of the only reasons I use emby and without this option, I might as well go with plex seeing as it's free. to take options away from paying customers is disconcerting.

[Happy2Play 9794]

It wasn't really removed it was changed to only get specials "critical to story" positioning data from TVDB.  So all other specials require manually applying positioning data.

[NeverExists 21]

Well they dont show up for me and they are movies that are critical. They don't show up in mu up next section or in the seasons. The show im watching right now is inuyasha and the movies dont show up anywhere except in the specials section

[Happy2Play 9794]

Would need specific example and enabled library metadata order.

[Happy2Play 9794]

10 minutes ago, NeverExists said:

The show im watching right now is inuyasha and the movies dont show up anywhere except in the specials section

But this example does not have any critical to story tagged specials.

Compared to my Bleach example

So only items that contain this "critical to story" tag gets positioning data from TVDB.

[NeverExists 21]

there should be an option to include all specials

[RanmaCanada 500]

1 minute ago, NeverExists said:

there should be an option to include all specials

They are in the specials folder. If the morons at TVDB did not include them as "critical to the story", then you need to manually edit the metadata yourself, as was mentioned so that they show up during your season playback. This is NOT an Emby problem, but a problem with the idiots at TVDB who have constant genital wagging competitions with users and often get the specials data incorrect on purpose just so they can "drink the tears of the plebs".

[NeverExists 21]

Yes, but wouldn't it be better to add the option to include all specials to avoid these issues? I have seen 22 problems with TVDB and its specials, so instead of blaming someone else and ignoring the issue, maybe fixing this feature by adding a toggle to avoid these issues would be better. IP mean people who go through the trouble of adding the specials to the specials folder in the first place prob means they want to see them when they aired. Whether TVDB has it listed as crucial or not. I use Emby for anime, and this genre is all messed up on tvdb and most specials are important and part of the story. Surely adding a simple toggle to add all specials to their place would not be much trouble. honestly with anime, this is the most important feature cause anime has a lot more specials than regular shows.

[RanmaCanada 500]

5 hours ago, NeverExists said:

Yes, but wouldn't it be better to add the option to include all specials to avoid these issues? I have seen 22 problems with TVDB and its specials, so instead of blaming someone else and ignoring the issue, maybe fixing this feature by adding a toggle to avoid these issues would be better. IP mean people who go through the trouble of adding the specials to the specials folder in the first place prob means they want to see them when they aired. Whether TVDB has it listed as crucial or not. I use Emby for anime, and this genre is all messed up on tvdb and most specials are important and part of the story. Surely adding a simple toggle to add all specials to their place would not be much trouble. honestly with anime, this is the most important feature cause anime has a lot more specials than regular shows.

Again you are ignoring the TVDB problem. If there is no metadata to pull for these specials, including them will do jack if Emby doesn't know where the hell to place them. It would place them at the beginning of the season or in the Specials folder. That's it. You are not understanding this at all. Again you need to manually address this, or use a different metadata provider. How the hell would Emby know where to place them in the season if they don't have the information..

We're telling you what the problem is and you're just going "LALALALA I don't care just fix it" when it's something that is out of the dev team's capabilities to fix because they have no control over the data.

I've been using Emby for anime for a decade now. Your library is probably miniscule compared to mine and others on here. We know WTF we're talking about.

[NeverExists 21]

How the hell are you even working with customers with your arrogant rudeness [redacted]. I am canceling my subscription you [redacted] there is Metadata for these episodes [redacted]!!! But your too busy lalalalalalalla like a goof instead of fixing the problem you should be fired!!!! And never work with people again. [redacted]

Edited yesterday at 03:33 AM by GrimReaper
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[NeverExists 21]

Funny how 2 years ago all these episodes showed fine but your too [redacted] ignorant to see that

Edited yesterday at 03:34 AM by GrimReaper
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[NeverExists 21]

You're pathetic and don't even understand the issue,  cause these exact same specials showed properly 3 years ago before the first time I left emby. Maybe try learning about what you're talking about so you don't look so stupid and arrogant. Everything worked fine before you switched your specials handling to only crucial specials. So adding a toggle to add back the all specials function should work fine like it did 3 years ago, but I guess your some newbie loser that does not know this but pretends he does, [redacted] instead you act like [redacted] and go all evil cry baby on people instead of actually trying to help them. Attacking is not helping believe it or not. So unless I get an apology, I am closing my account. This app has really gone downhill and must be desperate if they are allowing people like you to answer for them.

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[RanmaCanada 500]

2 hours ago, NeverExists said:

You're pathetic and don't even understand the issue,  cause these exact same specials showed properly 3 years ago before the first time I left emby. Maybe try learning about what you're talking about so you don't look so stupid and arrogant. Everything worked fine before you switched your specials handling to only crucial specials. So adding a toggle to add back the all specials function should work fine like it did 3 years ago, but I guess your some newbie loser that does not know this but pretends he does, [redacted] instead you act like [redacted] and go all evil cry baby on people instead of actually trying to help them. Attacking is not helping believe it or not. So unless I get an apology, I am closing my account. This app has really gone downhill and must be desperate if they are allowing people like you to answer for them.

I'm a user like yourself, not staff. I completely understand the issue, and you've been told by people how to fix it, but you don't want to listen because you think you know better.

Have a great day.

 

[pwhodges 2015]

On 24/02/2026 at 19:48, NeverExists said:

Well they dont show up for me and they are movies that are critical. They don't show up in mu up next section or in the seasons. The show im watching right now is inuyasha and the movies dont show up anywhere except in the specials section

All you have to do is edit the metadata for the movies to indicate where within the seasons you want them to show (though frankly I wouldn't do that for the Inuyasha movies, as they are not part of the continuing story of the main series).  They will also still show in the Specials section, but you can ignore that.

Paul

Edited 1 hour ago by pwhodges