I have a question about how to easily advance a set of videos from one segment to the next. The set of videos are all in the same folder. They are lecture courses, which are delivered in a numder of segments. Each segment is a stand-alone file, but, again, they are in the same folder on my hard-drive.
When I am in a segment, I cannot advance to the next segment without backing out to the parent folder. The “skip to next” button is greyed out. This might be because the track number TAG data has not yet been entered. The files are numbered sequentially, but that does not seem to be sufficient to do a quick click advance either forward or backward in the set.
I will add track number TAG data when I get back to my media server. Will this do the trick, or should I also create a “playlist”?
Maybe you rather want to create a ‘tv show’-type library.
With your courses being ‘tv shows’ and the single videos/lessons are ‘episodes’.
Which then would also save you from using the ‘folder view’ mode.
‘Seasons’ would provide an additional level of structure for a course.
Whether you use it, is your decision. Most Plex clients can automatically hide the ‘Season’ level from view if a tv show has only one season.
Plex is also tracking your progress through a tv show, which then automatically brings up the next ‘unplayed’ lesson (episode) from a course onto the home page of your plex client, if you like.
