How to handle extended episodes

[TheIceCreamTroll]

@SpykerNZ

The One Pace Team has just announced their new "Extended" episodes, which are alternatives to the regular releases with the inclusion of good filler. Since they are technically the same episode and Plex doesn't support editions for TV episodes like they do movies, we may need to tweak our release process.

The two options that come to my mind are to either create NFO files for both versions and let the user pick which one they use, or to create one NFO with file-specific metadata removed (such as duration). Main issue there is that users wouldn't be able to tell from the filename which episode is extended.

I personally prefer the first option, but would love to hear other ideas

[TheIceCreamTroll]

On a related note, do we need the <fileinfo> and <runtime> tags? Plex doesn't need this as far as I know, and it causes our NFOs to become out of date when episodes are updated.

Egghead 1 & 2 just got rereleased, and since the only changes are file-specific tags I don't know if there's much value updating them.

Might be worth going through and seeing which NFO tags we can remove. Saves us the hassle of updating info that Plex/Jellyfin can figure out for themselves

[SpykerNZ]

@TheIceCreamTroll I think I would also prefer the 1st option you suggested with separate nfos.
Perhaps put them in a separate folder in the repo? also tagged with extended in the file name. Then users can copy these as needed depending on what they prefer.

Not sure about the tags, don't have strong feelings either way. If it's a pain to maintain then could get rid of them, but are we not just automatically generating them anyway most of the time?

[skoota510]

Extended episodes are not renaming for me.

[TheIceCreamTroll]

Are they not renaming in Plex or from rename.py? If it's the latter, #76 should fix that.

If it's in Plex, make sure you don't have both editions of the episode, as from what I can tell, it doesn't support multiple editions of an episode. Sometimes it even requires removing the old episode first, making sure it's gone in the UI, then adding the new one. Inconvenient, but workable.

[skoota510]

I'm using the executable but both, specifically the two Egghead episodes. All three of the file names don't get renamed, but the episode information doesn't show up just for the Egghead ones.

Are they supposed to be named in Plex as extended? If so, then S06E05 doesn't show correctly either.