2024-12-03, 02:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-12-03, 03:00 PM by TheDreadPirate. Edited 2 times in total.)
So the way this should work is that you name the folders and episodes as if this was a plain Johnny Carson boxset instead of a "Best Of" compilation. My wife has a "Best Of" boxset for the old show "Dragnet". You just need to treat it like the original show and name the episodes properly.
It is all over the place, in terms of incomplete seasons, but that's what you have to do. As you stated, TMDB/IMDB/TVDB doesn't consider Best Of compilations as their own entity, because they aren't.
Code:
Dragnet/
├── Season 01
│ ├── s01e01.mkv
│ ├── s01e05.mkv
│ └── s01e11.mkv
├── Season 02
│ ├── s02e04.mkv
│ ├── s02e07.mkv
│ ├── s02e11.mkv
│ ├── s02e19.mkv
│ ├── s02e26.mkv
│ └── s02e28.mkv
├── Season 03
│ ├── s03e04.mkv
│ ├── s03e16.mkv
│ ├── s03e17.mkv
│ ├── s03e19.mkv
│ ├── s03e21.mkv
│ ├── s03e28.mkv
│ ├── s03e29.mkv
│ ├── s03e31.mkv
│ ├── s03e34.mkv
│ └── s03e39.mkv
├── Season 04
│ ├── s04e01.mkv
│ ├── s04e03.mkv
│ ├── s04e04.mkv
│ └── s04e08.mkv
├── Season 05
│ └── s05e09.mkv
└── Season 07
└── s07e28.mkv
It is all over the place, in terms of incomplete seasons, but that's what you have to do. As you stated, TMDB/IMDB/TVDB doesn't consider Best Of compilations as their own entity, because they aren't.