# DVD library shown in plex library

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/dvd-library-shown-in-plex-library/172564>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [December 23, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dvd-library-shown-in-plex-library/172564 "2016-12-23T02:01:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beats\_86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@Beats\_86](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Beats_86)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dvd-library-shown-in-plex-library/172564/1 "2016-12-23T02:01:31Z")

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As Plex doesn’t currently have support for local media played through drives (ie DVD/BD) wouldn’t it be good if you could scan the barcode of your DVD library and have it displayed in Plex library (listed as DVD of course) so you could see your whole collection of media and not just what you have electronically.

I know there apps for doing this on your mobile devices so surely it would be an easy thing to integrate into PMS.

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**Author:** ![DavidT829](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@DavidT829](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DavidT829)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dvd-library-shown-in-plex-library/172564/2 "2018-01-03T17:37:28Z")

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I have a similar problem.

About 600 movie titles (with extras means at least 700 discs) on physical media, about 100 titles stored digitally, about 1000 music tracks as MP3 and probably about the same number of image files.

The Plex system seems the best way to manage my digital media, allowing for future digital purchases to be added in a way that keeps them safe and accessible. However, as far as I can see I would still need another application to keep track of the physical media.

Plex adding the streaming of news and some DVR functionality makes it appear to be a “go to place” if I want to watch or listen to something… Unless it happens to be one of the aforementioned 600 films!

I have found several other forum posts (some dating back as far as 2009) on this subject, but no official responses.

I’ll keep trawling through the Plex Labs projects to see if anyone has come up with an elegant solution to what appears to be a common barrier to using Plex if you’ve already spent years building up a movie collection.

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dvd-library-shown-in-plex-library/172564/3 "2018-01-03T18:41:58Z")

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> **[Is there any possibility for browsing my DVD collection in my media server?](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1511577/#Comment_1511577)**
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> Plex can be fooled: Take a text editor. type for instance this into it: Manchester by the Sea (2016) save the file and then rename it to Manchester by the Sea (2016).mkv put this file into your ‘Disc library’ folder and let Plex update the...

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/dvd-library-shown-in-plex-library/172564/4 "2020-01-07T22:27:39Z")

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