I have a kids music DVD which I ripped into individual chapter (i.e. songs) instead as one single mkv. This results in 30 “chapters” which I don’t know how to feed into Plex so it is recognised correctly. The DVD btw. is available at the themoviedb.
What would be the best way in naming the individual chapters so they are correctly recognised, at least on the general “movie level”? I could also live with naming the individual songs by hand if that is neccessary.
Depends on if you want to be able to jump to the individual songs or not.
The Plex multi-part feature doesn’t support that many parts (and it is bothersome on some clients) so that is not an option.
Since you only have one metadata set for the DVD as a whole, you can either
merge the individual songs back into one file
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/178888/howto-joining-multi-part-movies-files-with-mkvtoolnix-gui#top
Drawbacl of this method: you cannot jump to particular songs anymore. Unless you also create a fitting chapter file and mux it into the MKV as well. Many Plex clients support at least jumping to the next/previous chapter.
or take only the first song and name it as if it is the whole DVD. Then add all the other songs as local extras.
Drawback of this method: you cannot sync them to the cloud or to mobile devices.
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1122252/#Comment_1122252
Hm I also ripped the whole thing as one big file with makemkv. I will see whether this has chapter information in it. Never done something like that actually.
Thanks for your help.
Edit: Obviously no chapters visible, at least in the web player where I quick checked. Is there a way to rip with chapter information @OttoKerner ?
Edit 2: Tried to add a song as scene (both via XYZ-scene.mkv and Scenes/XYZ.mkv) but it simply got ignored by Plex. Local Media Assets is enabled for both Plex Movie and TheMovieDB agent. Bringing it topmost didn’t do the trick either.
Edit 3: The local extras seem to work if they are already present in the folder, when the movie is added for the first time to the library, not if they are added afterwards… Guess I have to do the dance after I added all the songs as scene.
@Coxeroni said:
Edit: Obviously no chapters visible, at least in the web player where I quick checked. Is there a way to rip with chapter information @OttoKerner ?
Verify with mkvtoolnix if there are chapters in there. The web app won’t show the chapters, but you can skip to them if they are present. Use Alt+[left] or Alt+[right] to skip to the next or previous chapter mark.
Edit 2: Tried to add a song as scene (both via XYZ-scene.mkv and Scenes/XYZ.mkv) but it simply got ignored by Plex. Local Media Assets is enabled for both Plex Movie and TheMovieDB agent. Bringing it topmost didn’t do the trick either.
Local Extras only work if your library is using the ‘Plex Movie Scanner’
If it is currently using the ‘Plex Video Files Scanner’ (which is what is used when you created the library as a ‘Home/Other Videos’) you need to change that by 'edit’ing the library, then go to the ‘Advanced’ tab.
Keep in mind that this also enforces the same rules for file names as in a regular movie library.
@OttoKerner said:
@Coxeroni said:
Edit: Obviously no chapters visible, at least in the web player where I quick checked. Is there a way to rip with chapter information @OttoKerner ?
Edit 2: Tried to add a song as scene (both via XYZ-scene.mkv and Scenes/XYZ.mkv) but it simply got ignored by Plex. Local Media Assets is enabled for both Plex Movie and TheMovieDB agent. Bringing it topmost didn’t do the trick either.Local Extras only work if your library is using the ‘Plex Movie Scanner’
If it is currently using the ‘Plex Video Files Scanner’ (which is what is used when you created the library as a ‘Home/Other Videos’) you need to change that by 'edit’ing the library, then go to the ‘Advanced’ tab.
Keep in mind that this also enforces the same rules for file names as in a regular movie library.
See Edit 3I added them to the normal movie library and used Plex Movie Scanner.
Thanks for the tip, Alt+right indeed skipped to the next song. I guess my daughter has to live with that so I don’t have to rename all the stupid songs one by one 
@Coxeroni said:
Keep in mind that this also enforces the same rules for file names as in a regular movie library.
See Edit 3
In the worst case you have to Plex Dance the item.
But i think either a ‘Scan Library files’ or a ‘Refresh Metadata’ should usually be sufficient.
Oh by the way: if you forgot the keyboard short cut, you can open the help page with the list of all keyboard shortcuts by typing ?
Thanks for letting me know. Apart from listening to music while working I don’t use the web player a lot, so I have zero clues about shortcuts
