I would like to request a feature that I would hope would not be hard to implement but would give a lot of power to many of the bigger systems especially those running multiple Plex servers. This would/could also be very useful to those with small systems also. The feature request is this. Dur…

Thanks for posting this as a formal request, Carlo. Definitely hoping for this for exactly the reasons you cited. In preparation/anticipation of this, does anyone have any suggestions on how to create BIF files outside of Plex on a Mac? (I'm sure a quick google search would net a few results, but w…

@cayars said: 1 - Plex would never create the bif files in the media directory but would only scan for them and use them if found. This allows Plex to “hold-true” to not touching the media files. Since this appears to no longer be the case (see the new media optimizer), any chance we might be ab…

While we’re at it, if we’re going to put the bif files in the original media’s folders, let’s put the subtitles there too, with the same naming conventions as the media has. This makes more sense to have all of the items related to the specific media in the same place, self-contained, so everything…

Let’s don’t pollute our media stores with Plex files. Plex is not the only platform I use to watch videos and I sure as crap don’t want to populate as\movies\ folder with bif files for every media file in that directory. How about being able to choose a directory to put the bif files separate fr…

@drinehart said: Let’s don’t pollute our media stores with Plex files. Plex is not the only platform I use to watch videos and I sure as crap don’t want to populate as\movies\ folder with bif files for every media file in that directory. How about being able to choose a directory to put the bi…

@rlobbins - @AnEightiesGuy indicated the desire for the BIF files to be stored with the movies and I would not agree with that. A separate directory structure would be better (one that could store all of the bifs, srts, etc.). I just do not want my Movies dir to be cluttered with anything other th…

I completely understand the desire to keep your directories clean and uncluttered. This would certainly be an opt-in type of thing. And, since you can choose a directory for Plex Optimized files, I think it would make sense that Plex take the same route were they to entertain this request. My main …

I’ve got to disagree here. I want everything related to the media stored with the media. That way if I want to move my plex server I don’t need to regenerate a rediculious amount of BIF’s, re-download artwork etc. Put it in a folder by all means, but the gobbly gook file names mixed with metadata as…

I have separate folders for each movie. And if I find trailers or srt files for them I also put them into that folder with the movie. Since I also use an alpha sorting for movies, the only movie folders in each alpha are those movies that start with the letter of the alphabet. So, if I want to pu…

I’m 100% with MikeG6.5 but this is no surprise as we agree 99.9% of the time anyway. :slight_smile: I really despise the GUID directory layout for meta-data but can live with it. BUT as anyone who has a large library that has had to rebuild their plex database (for whatever reason) can testify the…

BIF/index file detection during scanning

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BIF/index file detection during scanning

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