My girlfriend and I have been together a year now and she has been given her own Plex Home account with separate libraries for movies, TV, and music that are exclusively hers for ease of access (and because I don’t want to see P!nk in my music library!
Long story short we do have some overlap in the area of music in particular and rather than creating duplicate files in her music folder that would take up more hard disk space I would love a command / function similar to a symlink (symbolic link) so that I could designate particular media of any type down to an individual music track to be visible and available in another library of the same media type. This way the entry would be duplicated in the interface, but would always access the same file to play the media rather than having a whole bunch of duplicated files on my hard drive.
I searched and didn’t see this request anywhere else, but if so please post a link to it. If you would like to see this function please click the Like button so the devs will know!
@cft76011
If your server is Linux, then symlink is indeed the best and quickest way to do that. I think Windows has a similar idea, but I’ve never done it. You can look at this guide, though: Symlinks on Windows and Linux
Simply create the symlink in the target library’s folder, pointing to the original content and then scan. Plex will see the symlink as if it were a real asset.
Well I feel like a complete idiot. I mention a possible solution in my own question that does actually work for what I want to do, but only as a workaround I would say since it does not occur within Plex itself. I feel that a more elegant approach from within Plex would be preferred since then the information could be backed up along with my Plex Database. Whereas now if I create a multitude of symlinks and my system were to ever crash and the OS needed to be reinstalled I would have to remember / recreate them all manually. At least I am just starting out with the process so it won’t be that difficult to keep a manual record of entries I would need to make in the event of a loss of that information.
