CONCERTS & MUSIC VIDEOS and MOVIE EXTRAS

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While Plex has really done a great job in allowing me to view my movie collection, I am having a problem with 2 types of files. Does anyone have a suggestion?

  1. Concerts & Music Videos: I am trying to import for viewing my collection of concerts and music videos. The proper way to do this would be similar to the “music” type of library, where it displays the different artists then has the concerts & videos underneath (such as albums). The problem is, if you select “Music” it doesn’t recognize the file format (mp4) and therefore states there are no files. If you select “Other Videos”, it will display all of the files BUT it displays every file on the main page (e.g. doesn’t group them by the artist). How do you make it group by the artist? I even tried “TV” but that comes out a complete mess.

  2. Extras from Movies: As I have ripped my movie collection, I also rip all of the extra features. I have them grouped by the movie title on the computer. The only format that seems to kind of work is “Other Videos” Unfortunately, as with the above, every file shows on the main page. There is no way to group (that I have found) by movie or title (or however you want to group on your computer). It almost seems the same solution would work for both. Either a grouping feature I am missing or another type of database that allows you to group.

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  1. I don’t think Plex is going to do what you want here. The Music library type will only scan audio files. Music videos associated with albums or tracks can be added as extras, but not as stand-alone items. The Movie library type is the appropriate library type, but there’s no way to group by “Artist.” Plex just doesn’t have what you’re after. There are a couple of threads related to this, but I haven’t seen a solution.

  2. Extras need to be organized and properly named alongside the movie they are associated with. This Help page describes what to do.

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Workaround: prepend every title with the artist name. Then use the ‘List’ view mode for this library.

There is already a way include movie extras.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/

Can also be used for the Music Videos & Concerts library, as you can see if you follow the first link above.

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