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So, you can’t say customize it to point to a particular web channel then? I mean, like the news on Plex, are you able to customize it?

62

Nope. The news stuff come directly from Plex.

63

So, I’m having the most difficult time setting up a second server on a synology server. DS1019+. I installed the PMS app, and tried to start setup. But all I get is the No soap for you" error message and when I click on the top right for account, I get on the first server on a win10 machine.

I’ve looked at other threads, and I can’t find a solution to get started to even setup the new server. Any idea? Thanks

64

Can you explain what you mean by this?

65

Hi @anon18523487! Thanks. It’s all good. I got some help already. Learned quite a bit about Plex too. Thanks again

66

I have a curious question, if I may. If I had TV series that I keep on a drive to sort of mark what I last saw, how would I name that on Plex. Do I still have to create individual folder for each? Or can I have say a general folder for this with say a series - season,episode number all within that general folder? Thanks

67

can someone give me some pointers on plugins? I downloaded the plugin, extracted it and copied it into the user/appdata/local/plex media server/plug-ins folder. Restarted the server… and nothing. I dont see the plugin anywhere. What am I missing?

68

I think you should put it in “Plug in support”

Remember that Plex has said that they are no longer supporting plug-ins.

69

Thanks @Elijah_Baley! I gave it a try. I assume you mean the plog-ins support on the same plex media server folder? Didn’t work though. I guess they are really arent supporting it no more.

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I know Plex doesn’t support the older Linux based NAS anymore. I have a N3200XXX NAS and found a older PSM version that works on it. Other then not getting any updates and may not optimize newer features, if i run it locally, are there any issues attaching it as a PMS on account?

71

What version are you using?

72

Hi @anon18523487! The version I found last updated for that NAS was 0.9.17

73

Ok, that version will still work, but many Plex clients won’t be able to access it, unless you can find old versions of the clients too.

74

While fixing up my 10+ years worth of music files to work with Plex, I recently downloaded some music files. Wanted to put it into Plex, but I can’t seem to see them in Plex. I dug down to figure why. Files were in the folder format, numbered and named properly. Only thing I found empty was the Metadata of the files (empty). So, am I correct to assume that the file needs to have Metadata for plex to recognize? Thanks

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No. Plex can organize your files in 1 of 2 ways. With or without embedded metadata.

If embedded data is there, it will use that data to identify and match. If there is no data, you need to organize your files in a certain folder structure. Basically

Artist - Album \ Track # - Track title

76

Thanks @anon18523487, I’ve done so. Jam Hsiao/Dance Monkey/01 - Danc Monkey.mp3 and Plex did not find it. I’m a bit confused why.

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It’s “Artist - Album” not “Artist \ Album”. 1 folder, not nested folders. If you want to organize them by artist, you need to do

-Music
– Artist
— Artist - Album

78

Ok, thats different then how the article: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265296-adding-music-media-from-folders/

It has Artist/album/track# - track name. But either way, it does not show in plex

79

Hmm. I wonder if something changed. I’m sure that article use to show it this way. This is the way I have my files organized and it works for me. Can you show me the exact files and folders you are using? Also the logs from PMS after trying to scan in these files.

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Add those metadata.