How to handle multi-part episodes that span multiple seasons?

[instantsunrise 3]

I've used emby to handle multi-part episodes just fine in the past when they are within the same season, I name them something like "Star Trek The Next Generation - S06E10E11 - Chain of Command.mkv" and Emby will pull the metadata for both halves of the episode without issue.

However, I'm not sure how to get emby to properly fetch metadata for multi-part episodes that span multiple seasons which have been edited together into a single episode.  i.e. naming a file "Star Trek The Next Generation - S03E26 - S04E01 - The Best of Both Worlds.mkv" causes Emby to only fetch the metadata for the first part of the episode.

Is there a way to name the file so that Emby will pull the metadata for both halves of the episode and have it appear in the listings for both seasons 3 and 4?

[Carlo 4561]

Hi, There really is no way to do this and I've personally never seen this with over 100K+ episodes on my server.

If it were me I'd use a tool like AVIdemux and cut the one one episode into two seperate files.  Then named correctly and your problem is solved.

[Gilgamesh_48 1240]

13 hours ago, instantsunrise said:

Is there a way to name the file so that Emby will pull the metadata for both halves of the episode and have it appear in the listings for both seasons 3 and 4?

The way I handle the very few times I have run into this issue and I wanted the metadata for both (Normally I do not really care if the data for the second part is there or not) I left the file combined and I name it such that it fit in the first season it showed in and placed the file in that season. That is it was only named, using your example,  "Star Trek The Next Generation - S03E26 - The Best of Both Worlds.mkv".

Then in season 04 I simply leave that episode out. Emby does not care if an episode in missing, it just skips whatever is missing.

After Emby finds the metadata for the first part I then edited the metadata for that episode and added the description for the second part. You can, if you want, edit the title field to show it is a combined episode.

It actually takes longer to explain what I do than it takes to do it.

[pwhodges 2014]

I was going to suggest using absolute order so the episodes weren't split across seasons - but then I saw that TVDB doesn't have the data set up.

Paul