I’m trying to complete my collection of a show and up until maybe a year ago the season and episode # in the torrent name has been completely wrong. No idea why. For example if I’m looking for season 18 episode 17 and I find a torrent for that episode chances are pretty good the episode I download isn’t actually for S18E17.
So if you make torrents and include the episode title in the torrent’s name, thank you.
Sometimes the discrepancy is with release order vs. dvd order. So it could be something like that. Of you check TVDB it might list any alternate show orders for that series.
Unfortunately this show hasn’t had any DVD/Bluray releases as far as I know.
Could also be a discrepancy between aired order and episode order. The TVDB are Nazis about this stuff and often cling to their own “method” despite it not aligning with anyone else including the show’s own production team.
Another situation is multi-episode releases. I remember first encountering this with LOST where the 2h season finale would be listed as two separate episodes, which for a season finale wasn’t too annoying. More recently, later seasons of The Good Place would air two episodes at a time, and that always caused a mess as well that required manual intervention sometimes.
Mine is NOVA where TVDB decides that some episodes are “specials” and puts them in the season 0 folder despite PBS, NOVA, and the uploader listing them as normal season episodes. Sonarr doesn’t know this so they get relabled as the wrong episode which I then have to go back and fix along with every later episode typically as I’m getting to watch that specific episode.
I use a tool called Rename My TV Series — and it’s available for macOS and Linux as well as Windows. And it’s never steered me wrong.
People do all kinds of dumb shit when naming TV series and numbering them. And for the MOST part, it doesn’t matter — until you run a Plex or Jellyfin server, and then you gotta comply with TVDB’s systems.
Like for example Sword Art Online fans. A very weird, very clannish bunch and they’re not kind to outsiders, especially when they want to know when season 5 is coming out. Because to everyone else, Sword Art Online was the first season, Sword Art Online II was the second season, Sword Art Online Alicization was the third season, and Sword Art Online Aliciziation War of Underworld was the fourth season. Part of the confusion is, the author tweeted that they were gonna make 48 episodes of Alicization. And they did. Half of it was Alicization and the other half was Alicization War of Underworld, which was the fourth season. Each season of anime is its own production with its own name and that’s how TVDB does it. Now if you’re just storing the files and you’re gonna open them with VLC, you can number them how you like. But if you try it through something like Plex… things break. And it’s really only weird because the fans make it weird.
I was talking to one guy who misnames Demon Slayer seasons, intentionally, because he didn’t think the second season should exist. So, the story with that was, Demon Slayer Mugen Train was a movie, but then they broke it up into episodes and made it the second season. This guy doesn’t think that season should exist. So in his eyes, season 3 is actually season 2 and so on. And that’s fine on his hard drive, but on Plex, it’s gonna take those episodes listed as season 2 and it’s gonna change the names to make them season 2 episodes.
There’s an -arr program that handles renaming, so if you’re a Linux (?) user and you use the -arrs, you should definitely use that, it should fit right into your workflow. But if you don’t use the -arrs or you’re on an OS that most of them don’t work on (like me with my Macs), Rename My TV Series is super easy for that. And it’s free. And it’ll even set the file creation date/time as when the episode originally aired. So that’s neat.
I was talking to one guy who misnames Demon Slayer seasons, intentionally, because he didn’t think the second season should exist
That is some hilariously insane behaviour
