Add non-episode shows like Interviews and talks?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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What’s the best way to add non-TV Show based media like interviews and talks?

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To an existing Show?

In a Specials Season (Season 00, or a folder called Specials).

https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/

Television Specials

Shows sometimes air “specials” or other content that isn’t part of the standard season. “Specials” episodes are always part of season zero (i.e. season number “00”) and should be placed inside a folder named either Season 00 or Specials .

  • /TV Shows/ShowName/Specials/ShowName – s00e13 – Optional_Info.ext

Where you specify the correct episode numbers. If you’re unsure whether a particular episode is a Special or not, check the episode on TheTVDB and name it as you see it there.

If an “episode” you have doesn’t appear in TheTVDB (e.g. DVD Specials or goof reel), place this content in the Season 00 or Specials folder named using s00eYY using a false “YY” number (e.g.: Heroes s00e99). The show will be available to play in a Plex App but won’t have any special metadata gathered, such as a summary.

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Not related to existing shows. I’m talking about completely unrelated things like TED talks. I’m specifically looking at adding some psychology interviews and panel talks.

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Well - manual labor aside… those may be best to keep in a TV Show Library, but change the agent to Personal Media so Plex will stop trying to match it then blow your edits when it does.

Plex provides an Other Videos Library - that fails miserably in a TV Show setting. Works good for Movie Type, one off material.

New Agent: ‘Unmatch’ will change the agent to Personal Media automatically.

Old Agents: ‘Fix Match’ then in Search Options switch to Personal Media from the Agent Dropdown.

Edit:

On the way back from a Road Trip to a User/Friend (to set his client up) I got to thinking… (dangerous)… and you may be able to just name them appropriately and match 'em at TVDB - if we’re really talking about TED Talks:

https://www.thetvdb.com/series/tedtalks

The other Personal Media info above still stands for unlisted Shows.

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I can’t do this by folder, can I? My thought process is to add an “Other” folder to the TV Series, and set that “Other” folder to those settings.

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Nope - it’s the whole ‘Show’ or nothing.

Half a Show can’t be personal media.

You also can’t ‘Add a Folder’ to a Plex based TV Show. Personal Media or not, Plex has rules for TV Shows - disregard them and watch it explode…lol

You can add a Season 00 folder (or one called Specials). You can then make sure the show, if listed at TVDB, doesn’t have Special Episodes in the range you want to number yours.

For instance. If TED Talks has 100 Special Episodes - start naming yours at:
TED Talks - S200E01 - BlaBlaBla.xxx
So Plex won’t match to existing Special Episodes.

The above scenario would be for a ‘Half Matched’ show with episodes that don’t match.

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