2025-01-03, 05:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 2025-01-03, 05:45 PM by Efficient_Good_5784. Edited 3 times in total.)
So my earlier statement on specials not queueing properly was an issue on my end. They are working fine as you have found out in terms of queueing.
Using aired dates would be worse as this is reliant on metadata providers having the correct metadata. And what about for people that have episode metadata disabled? Jellyfin allows you to customize season and episode numbers. Having it go off of aired dates brings much more complexity than needed to sort episodes as they currently are.
The setting only adds the specials that take place between some episodes and adds that to the counter of total episodes for that season view.
It's also more convenient being able to see a special takes place between some episodes instead of having to remember from your memory.
What would be nice is to have an option/toggle to not display them in seasons to satisfy your desire to keep your season view free of them. That way, both types of people can be satisfied.
You can submit a feature request for that here: https://features.jellyfin.org/
(2025-01-03, 04:35 PM)chenks Wrote: all the "next up" queue needs to do is check the air date of all the unwatched episodes after the most recent watched episode and display that, what season it is should be irrelevant.Jellyfin queues things by using the season and episode number. It never uses aired dates for queueing episodes while watching.
Using aired dates would be worse as this is reliant on metadata providers having the correct metadata. And what about for people that have episode metadata disabled? Jellyfin allows you to customize season and episode numbers. Having it go off of aired dates brings much more complexity than needed to sort episodes as they currently are.
(2025-01-03, 04:35 PM)chenks Wrote: it's a poor design decision then and makes absolutely no sense.I would argue that specials do belong within a season if they are needed to continue the story.
enabling that setting, whilst allowing the special to appear in "next up" also, incorrectly, lists the episode inside a season that it doesn't belong to.
this result is the episode appearing "twice" within the tv show, once inside the "specials" season (which is correct), and once inside an actual season (which is incorrect).
in my specific example, with this setting enabled, i have season 0 epsiode 221 correctly appearing in the "specials" season but also appearing in "season 18" which i doesn't belong in, but the only way to get the episode to show up in "next up" is to enable that settings.
it's maybe not common in the US, but in the UK it is and those "specials" episode often play an important role in the timeline of a TV show. you could have special episodes inbetween multiple seasons but they aren't specifically part of a season.
this is something that plex doesn't have an issue with.
The setting only adds the specials that take place between some episodes and adds that to the counter of total episodes for that season view.
It's also more convenient being able to see a special takes place between some episodes instead of having to remember from your memory.
What would be nice is to have an option/toggle to not display them in seasons to satisfy your desire to keep your season view free of them. That way, both types of people can be satisfied.
You can submit a feature request for that here: https://features.jellyfin.org/