I run plex in a jail on my freenas server. Because I have young children I set up my plex library as several libraries for multiple movie categories - Action, Drama, Children, Comedy, Family, etc. The difficulty is this means that I must manually move movies into the appropriate folder from a general download folder where my movie processing app (Couchpotato) puts them. My question is does Plex offer the ability to sort the movies without having to place them in separate folders?
Thanks for any assistance.
Wags
Yes, and No.
General Library Sort - Yes. The ‘Sort Title’ field can be manipulated by clever wording of what’s in the field. For instance, the words ‘Bourne YEAR’ (the year the movie came out, not the word ‘YEAR’) will stick all your many Jason Bourne movies in chronological order when viewing that library in which they reside no matter what the actual name of the movie is.
Automated sorting? No. If you want Plex to make more sense in the way it sorts things you have to help it by clever library creation and the Sort Title ‘work around’.
Hey, I do not think what you want is possible with Plex. However, with a Plex pass you could enable different user accounts and restrict access to content with specific ratings. Otherwise, there is another solution have a look at using filebot to sort your movies into different genre folders so an example you could create a script that uses the following binding “X:/Movies/{genres[0]}/{n} ({y})” and run the script to sort your movies then just point plex at the genre folders. Using filebot might take some getting used to as to run the automated script you don’t use the UI but instead use batch files.
I use Filebot and genres [disclaimer - not the latest version, I’ve been lazy…]. And while it works, you need to put in some effort because so many movies have several genres tagged to them. Say, an action-comedy-drama-animated-fantasy movie - where should Filebot put that? At least in my [old] version I need to tell Filebot that if it finds the tag “Animated” - put it in the Animated folder, so as it does not put it into Action instead.
