Autonumber for Seasons

[jeffwcollins]

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I have searched far and wide on not only this site, but throughout the google-verse, and cannot seem to find anything related to my question, so opening this was my last option.

I am downloading youtube videos to allow my daughter to watch through Plex, and with the Plex naming conventions what they are, I would like to find a way to automatically add a season number to the individual playlists from those gamers/channels that I am pulling from. The "season" output format functionality is what I would love to use, but, NONE of the channel owners that I am pulling from use those tags on their videos. I am able to use the "playlist_index" as a pseudo episode number which works great, but there are no series names, season names, season numbers or anything on those videos to pull to help organize them by season. When I do add the auto increment, it pre-fixes a number to each folder in addition to me adding the episode number, leaving me with multiple "playlist(season)" folders.

Example of episode numbers working:
%(uploader)s/%(playlist)s/E%(playlist_index)s - %(title)s/%(title)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/user/Hypnotizd/playlists

What I would like to know, is if its possible to automatically add a number before the playlist.
What I have:

• Hypnotizd/Forever Stranded Lost Souls (Modded Minecraft)/
  • E01 - Forever Stranded Lost Souls - Getting Started [E01] (Modded Minecraft)/
• Hypnotizd/Some Other Playlist (example)/
  • E01 - episode name (example)/

What I am requesting help with getting working:

• Hypnotizd/S01 - Forever Stranded Lost Souls (Modded Minecraft)/
  • E01 - Forever Stranded Lost Souls - Getting Started [E01] (Modded Minecraft)
• Hypnotizd/S02 - Some Other Playlist (example)/
  • E01 - episode name (example)/
• Hypnotizd/S03 - Another Playlist (example)/
  • E01 - episode name (example)/

Thanks for atleast reading thus far, and I appreciate the effort and support on this app.

[dstftw]

Not possible.