How do you prevent movies from stacking that have the names Part 1 and Part 2 in their title?

[pierce1921 0]

Does anyone know how to prevent emby from automatically joining/stacking two movies that have the names Part 1 and Part 2 in their title?

I have two movies:  "Chainsaw Man - The Compilation Part 1 (2025)" and "Chainsaw Man - The Compilation Part 2 (2025)" which have two different TMDB ids keep showing up as "Chainsaw Man - The Compilation Part 1 (2025)".  When I move Part 1 out of the media folder it then picks up Part 2.  But, Part 2 disappears when I put Part 1 back in place.  I don't have any other media that I would want to auto join/stack, so I would prefer to turn that feature off completely.  I am running emby version 4.9.5.0 on Centos 10.

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[Luke 42888]

Hi there, have you explored the options on the library?

[pierce1921 0]

Yes.  The first thing I did was turn off "Enable multi-part items".  It still didn't change it's behavior.

[Luke 42888]

HI, did you also read the help text at the top of the dialog?

[pierce1921 0]

Which help text?  On this forum or in the emby library settings?

[RanmaCanada 573]

Have them in separate folders for starters and name their folders and files properly as per the naming guidelines Name (Year) [tmdb=xxxx]

Chainsaw Man - The Compilation Part 1 (2025) [tmdb=1544513]

Chainsaw Man - The Compilation Part 2 (2025) [tmdb=1544707]

This should fix it.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by RanmaCanada

[pierce1921 0]

It looks like renaming just part 2 using that naming standard: (i.e. Chainsaw Man - The Compilation Part 2 (2025) [tmdb=1544707]).  It does indeed unstack the videos.  Thanks for your help RanmaCanada!

I will have to say that I think it's a bug, though.  The library option of "Enable multi-part items" doesn't seem to work as expected.

[Luke 42888]

HI ,it works just fine, but it requires a library scan after changing.