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[skarsol]

I'm trying to tag some cartoons that were aired as multiple discrete segments in a single block (lots of older cartoons had lots, current ones typically have 2 15 minute segments in a 30 minute program). It looks like Particles are going to be the best way to do this, but trying it with one I end up with the 2 particles (episodes 1 and 2) and then a 3rd file that is combined when I look at the Season. If I add the Season to Playing Now, I get both Particles and the combined file. Am I missing something?

(This is coming up because JRiver can't look up info for S01E01E02 or S01E01-02, so I'm going to have to manually tag it all anyway, so might as well break out the episodes if possible)

Also, do Particles work with sidecar files yet? The only thread I could find on that petered out last year.

[skarsol]

So with testing it looks like some stack related info is written to the sidecar but not enough to reconstruct the particles on import.

[skarsol]

So is this something you guys plan to implement with Particles in the future?

[skarsol]

Any help on this?

Or even any idea on how best to handle 2 TV episodes in one file?

[mwillems]

I never found a way to get particles to survive reimporting if they're removed (or even sometimes just moved), which after having to re-do them the third time ultimately led me to abandon particles and just split TV episodes up at the file level.  For all my files, there was an internal title/chapter structure that allowed me to split them out using makemkv or handbrake, but if the internal architecture isn't there you may have to split and remux, which is more complicated and I don't know much about it.  

Sorry I'm not more help, but I feel your pain.

[skarsol]

I was afraid of that. Okay, well thanks for responding anyway.