After finding Plex an amazing experience to host my rips of movies and TV shows. I bought a bunch of anime discs thinking it’d be the same experience. Well… After spending the better half of this week with sleepless nights looking into how I can organize my anime (that come straight off the disc), …

While not intending to denigrate your suggestions (which, in my opinion, are generally well thought out), I do have some ideas which might help. Most of these concerns seem to deal with (perceived) deficiencies as to how Plex handles ordering of certain series-related items: Specials and movies rel…

Thanks so much for your response! Smart Collections I agree, you can create smart collections for episodes. I tried it and saw it actually put those Specials after the episodes, unlike the normal “Season” view. I don’t always buy anime I wanna watch either. Some I buy to watch with my kids when th…

[image] sawtaytoes: Thanks so much for your response! You’re welcome! Not to belabor the point, but I did want to address a couple of your concerns. [image] sawtaytoes: And this means I have to go to that smart collection to watch the show, or I might miss out on specials. [image] …

[image] pshanew: will be used (the default for new libraries). Overall though, I agree there are deficiencies in how this all is handled. Most of them seem (in my opinion) to be related to the quality of the data in the online DBs. (And Plex’s lack of support for TVDB’s “custom” orders). Based …

I would 100% like to use nfo files, but I’m not sure how to set them up for Plex, where to put the files, how to configure seasons and keep the nfo files up-to-date, etc. My thinking is that I add the nfo files and then keep them up-to-date myself with some scripts I run in the background. The Plex…

I don’t use any scripts. I believe you would need the XMBC agent. Find that online and download it and follow the instructions of where to place the file properly in the Plex directory. Nfo files + a bit of Plex editor? Is what I use. First and foremost there is 2 ways to do this. You can have …

I settled on using the Absolute Series Scanner and adding database IDs to the folder names. [image] If you use [anidb-####] then each folder will show up as a series. [anidb3-####] or [anidb4-####] will combine the shows according to TVDB as seasons. Or inject the movies/specials into the shows in…

With episode ordering hmmm I know with nfo you can’t really handle episode like 6.5 for ex. Currently I don’t have any series like that. But with nfo I do like I can choose my order. OVA I can add at the end of the season which is usually where they belong. A perfect example for choosing episode…

This is how my server looks like for an anime with multiple seasons. I pick the artwork, episode names, etc. I even took the time to look for the episode title artwork within the episode to use for thumbnails. I think it’s the finishing touch for me as I don’t see that on any streaming sites. Th…

Better organization options for Anime (it's more complex than you think)

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sawtaytoes October 9, 2023, 7:45pm 5

I made a new feature request with better info here: Better ordering and configuration for shows and movies.

I’m fine closing this topic.

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Better organization options for Anime (it's more complex than you think)

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