Hello,
I’ve been using an “intuitive” directory structure for all my movies for several years now:
Movies
Movies\Action
Movies\Action\24\Season1
Movies\Action\24\Season2
(…)
Movies\Action\Crank.mp4
etc.etc.
so “Drama TV series” are created as subfolders in the “Drama” subdirectory etc., and each season has a separate folder also.
Now Plex comes along (after I’ve been a happy user of Serviio, unfortunately my TV set doesn’t recognize it) and it looks I can’t simply add the ‘Movies’ folder to the ‘Movies’ category as most subfolders of the TV shows are displayes as empty (which they aren’t).
Isn’t there any way to ‘force’ Plex to index my series subfolders along with all the other files? Because if there isn’t, it would make things extremely time-consuming as I’d have to define all those directories separately or to reorganize my favorite folder structure… :-((
thanks, g.
You cannot mix movies with TV shows, because TV shows require a completely different handling in Plex.
No, you cannot force Plex to use your naming schema.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/categories/200028098-Media-Preparation
Thanks for your reply!
But why can’t Plex simply index the “s01e01.mp4” etc. files and display them when I browse my files “by folder”?
I really don’t get the problem that prevents it from doing so. Every other DLNA server I know about is able to do exactly that.
cheers, Gecko
@geckozoo said:
But why can’t Plex simply index the “s01e01.mp4” etc. files and display them when I browse my files “by folder”?
It can do that. But then you have to make do without Plex downloading all the posters and descriptions of the episodes and series. And it won’t know which episode is supposed to play after which. And it won’t track your playback progress as you are advancing through the series. For you and your other users independently. That is the real power of Plex, and you are forfeiting it.
I really don’t get the problem that prevents it from doing so. Every other DLNA server I know about is able to do exactly that.
DLNA is not what Plex is. The DLNA is just a kind of addition. The real power of Plex you’ll see only if you use a real Plex client.
But of course you can do what you want. Just create a Home Video library and throw all your files in it. Then browse it in ‘Folder View’ mode.
Thanks Otto … that looked indeed as if it would do the trick … until I realized that Plex doesn’t index subtitle files when using that option. I can’t believe it … such a powerful software, but can’t do the simplest of things every mediocre DLNA server does by default. I’d switch, but then, others have other bugs. Aaargh, I feel lost. x-)
@geckozoo said:
Thanks Otto … that looked indeed as if it would do the trick … until I realized that Plex doesn’t index subtitle files when using that option. I can’t believe it … such a powerful software, but can’t do the simplest of things every mediocre DLNA server does by default. I’d switch, but then, others have other bugs. Aaargh, I feel lost. x-)
I think your basic premise of Plex is flawed. Plex is NOT a “DLNA server”. It has a capability to ACT like one and stream content to a DLNA client, but that’s only a bandaid really for client devices that have no native client or a web browser that’s incapable.
That said, suggest you read the help articles about naming content. You are putting TV shows in a directory structure under Movies, which makes NO SENSE. Make a top level directory called “TV Shows” or something and move all your TV show subdirectories under that.
@geckozoo said:
Thanks Otto … that looked indeed as if it would do the trick … until I realized that Plex doesn’t index subtitle files when using that option.
It will index subtitle files. If you use the ‘Plex Movie scanner’, not the ‘Video files scanner’.
Edit your library and go to the ‘Advanced’ tab to switch the scanner.
