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FAQ 6: Recommended Media Organization and Adding Media to Plex.

  1. It is recommended you create a top-level Synology share for each major grouping of media instead of placing them in the default “Videos” share. “Videos” is utilized by Video Station and has been known to conflict with PMS. However you group your shares, they should be named to best serve your needs.

  2. Please do not place media in the Plex share. This share is created to store the metadata (internal information about your media). It is made accessible to only to allow diagnostics and support in the event PMS is not working correctly on your NAS.

  3. The names are entirely as you wish them to be. Some examples of top level shares are:
    a. Movies
    b. Movies (Dramatic)
    c. Movies (Holiday)
    e. Music (Classical)
    f. Music (Rock)
    h. Home Videos (Vacations)
    i. Home Videos (Projects)
    j. Workout Videos
    k. Family Photos
    l. Vacation Photos

Under each of these you will create the storage structure appropriate to the type as detailed in FAQ 5 above.

An example of how it will appear might be:

Movies/
 Avatar (2009)/
    Avatar (2009).mkv
    Interview with the Director-interview.mkv

  Weekend at Bernies (1989)/
    Weekend at Bernies (1989).mp4
 
Television/
  Star Trek The Next Generation/
    Season 01/
      Star Trek The Next Generation - S01E01 - Encounter at Farpoint.mkv

Music/
  Sweetback/
     Sweetback/ 
       01 - Gaze.mp3
       02 - Softly Softly.mp3
       03 - Sensations.mp3
       04 - Au Natural.mp3
       05 - Arabesque.mp3
       06 - You Will Rise.mp3
       07 - Chord.mp3
       08 - Walk of Ju.mp3
       09 - Be Happier.mp3
       10 - Come Dubbing.mp3
       11 - Cloud People.mp3
       12 - Powder.mp3

Vacation  Photos/
  2004 -  Italy/
      IMG_9034.JPG
      IMG_9035.JPG
 
  2007 -  Germany
       Berlin/ 
         Brandenburg Gate.JPG
         Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.JPG

With your media now organized, you only need add the Share name (top-most level) to PMS. “Drilling down” into the sub structure will lead to mismatched media.

Using the examples above. knowing you can add as many shared folders to a Library type as you wish (the limit is only that of your available storage)

  1. “Movies” - Add:
    a. /volume1/Movies
    b. /volume1/His Movies

  2. "Movies (Seasonal) - Add:
    a. /volume1/Christmas Movies
    b. /volume1/Thanksgiving Movies

  3. “Vacation Photos” - Add;
    a. “/volume1/2007 - Berlin”
    b. “/volume1/2004 - Italy”

It is important to understand that PMS works with you to organize your media how you want it.

As long as it makes sense to you and PMS can understand your structure & naming, it will do the rest of the organizational work.

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