TL;DR, I have concert videos I want to all be in the same library. Some are full movies of a concert and others are broken up into clips of that concert. Still others are successive nights of the same show.
The only thing I can think of is to make a TV library and then name the full movies S01E01, and the clips S01E1, S01E02 etc, but then it seems like I’d be stuck with the TV agents, which won’t detect the movies.
I see a lot of conflicting info on this. I’m sure it’s been requested heavily, but I’d like to know the best way to do this with the current Plex, if it’s possible. Should I use Other Videos instead? With what scanner and agent? Do I have to enter all the metadata manually and not use any scanner and agent?
What is the best way to do this? Any help appreciated.
You can always concatenate the songs into a contiguous file.
When doing so, you can make chapter markers aat the former file boundaries. Which you then can use to name the various songs.
This is what I do when adding video collections and concerts into my music video library (type “Movies”).
@OttoKerner I did concatenate these, but a lot of them don’t match with the agent. I can manually change the title and description in Plex, but the year is always locked. I tried adding an nfo file with the same name as the file and choosing local metadata for the library, but that didn’t work.
How do I fix wrong matches or no matches for concerts?
If the concert is not listed on either IMDb or TheMovieDB, then you cannot.
The only option is to explicitly “Unmatch” the item and add all metadata manually. (as long as we still don’t have the user-defined metadata agent)
if a concert can be matched, it will get rich metadata
local extras can be added, so bonus content is present
posters are vertical
collections work too, so you can add the movie to the same collection as the artist in your music library – although it remains to be seen how this plays out in the future with separate apps for separate media types
@OttoKerner thanks. One last thing and I’ll mark this solved.
For concerts that the movie agent won’t pick up, I’ve been told I should actually use MKVToolNix to write the metadata I want directly into that file, since Plex won’t read an .nfo file (I thought it would)… and adding metadata manually in the UI doesn’t work well and could be overwritten.
Is that the approach you’d recommend for fixing concert movies with no decent match?
@OttoKerner if a file is MKV and doesn’t match with an agent, is there any method of saving its title/description/year etc. aside from typing it into the Plex UI?
