Basically, it ignored them because it didn’t know what they were since I didn’t know what to name them.Īfter a little googling, I found out that “Specials” have a special Season designation: “00.” So, for the first Doctor Who (2005) special called “The Christmas Invasion,” that aired on December 25, 2005, how you can name that file is:ĭoctor Who – S00E167 – The Christmas Invasion When I tried to get tinyMediaManager to scrape the specials, it didn’t know what to do with them. This works great for most of Doctor Who since most of the content is episodes.īut, what about the specials? The creators of Doctor Who regularly release off-season or out-of-season specials. The standard ways to indicate the season and episode of a show are to include something like the following in the name of the digital file: “S03E14.” This indicates the show is from Season (“S”) 03 and is the 14th Episode (“E”) from that season. Like most TV shows, Doctor Who has seasons. I like how it does all of this and it plays nice with Plex as well, which is important. Not only does tinyMediaManager pull down all the information for my movies and TV shows but it also has the ability to rename the files and organize them. I use tinyMediaManager for organizing my movies and TV shows on my file server.
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That causes some challenges when it comes to how to organize the files. BUT, the problem is that the specials are not technically part of a season. They are always well done and lots of fun. I recently ran into an issue with how to organize Doctor Who episodes on my fileserver and, once I figured it out, I thought I’d share it here in case others run into the same situation.įirst, props to Doctor Who for occasionally having specials. To that end, I have slowly been digitizing my favorite series (e.g., Star Trek, Stargate, and now Doctor Who) and putting them on my fileserver that uses Plex to serve the episodes to whatever device I want. And I want my science fiction at my fingertips.
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