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Hey guys,

With the announcement of the phasing out of HTPC support next year, will I still be able to use it as a server and send hundreds of tv series and hundreds of movies to my smart tv, phone and remote desktop PC? And continue to add new movies and TV series too?

What is being LOSYT with the drop of HTPC support?

Thanks !

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it’s just an App/Client change. Nothing more. The server side of things remains the same.

What is being lost is the “TV View” from Plex Media Player (being phased out in January of 2020 but will continually be updated until then), and the Plex App from the Windows store (which has been defunct for a while now apparently).

It’s nothing anyone really needs to worry about, other than those who were using a Home Theater PC setup (where the TV is the primary display source from a PC attached to it playing the role of an HTPC, which is not most people).

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Excuse me if this was asked already.

New PC being built, libraries on many hard drives being transferred and drive letters will be the same.

How though do I transfer my settings to the new PC?

Do I reinstall plex and then overwrite some file? If so, where is that file?

Thanks !!

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Read this support article:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/

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PMP, typically used for HTPC is going to be continue to be supported.

so your htpc should be fine.

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I read that support article about migrating to another PC

Is another scenario with hundreds of movies and TV series to just let the new install of plex build and index new libraries from the existing hard drives ( 10 tb) moved to the new pc? Which option is more practical?

Thanks!

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The approach described in the support article will keep your server configuration, libraries, (edited) metadata, collections, watch status

Your approach means you’ll start from scratch.

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Understood, but starting from scratch with scanning previously existing drives will still do the trick, right?

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Yes, it will.
That being said
 personally I’d try to stick with the instructions from the support article. If your file names didn’t allow Plex to match your media perfectly the first time you’ll have to go through the same „valley of tears“ again (e.g. identifying and fixing all missing/incorrect matches, adding collections
). Also I like to keep some of my watch history :slight_smile:

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Just a little question for the experts here.

Two films I wish to add both the same title “The Day The Earth Stood Still”

One is the 1950’s version, the other the 2000’s version.

How do I differentiate the two versions so that metadata is appropriately assigned?

Thanks!

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The Day The Earth Stood Still (1950)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (2000)

for both movies, and for tv shows, you should always specify the (year) in the folder/filename.

this will help avoid issues with duplicate movies.

of course that may not help if a movie name is used for 2 different movies in the same year, someone recently posted an example of that, not sure what was the solution there except for ‘fix match’.

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If Movies is the folder your library points at:

Movies
  The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
    The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951).ext
  The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008)
    The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008).ext

or

Movies
  The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951).ext
  The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008).ext

Where .ext is the file extension; as per https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-movie-media-files/ (posted above as well)
Personally I recommend to go with 1 folder per movie. That’ll allow easier addition of local media assets (posters, subtitles, extras
).

PS: too slow

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Love Plex ! My library is just growing and growing and growing !

Handbrake working 24 hours a day in some cases converting huge movie files into mkv format

Just wish there were and export/Import settings option which made transition to a new PC build seamless without having to go into hidden files and copy that folder to overwrite an existing one on a new install.

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Feature suggestion section is your friend:

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239 movies in my library now, I wonder what the highest number of movies anyone has in their movie library.

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Wonder there :wink:

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