It would be amazing if we could catalog our offline media in Plex. By offline media, I mean original DVDs, Blu-rays or even offline drives… This way we could display, sort and filter with those offline titles and Plex could remind us with an icon that they are offline.
How about just creating a small video that says something like “This movie is stored offline from your collection. To watch this movie, please insert the DVD into the player and change the input source on the TV.”
Then, in your Library, create the correct folder name, and copy this tiny video into that folder while changing the file name to the correct naming convention for the offline movie. Plex doesn’t know what media it is playing or even matching to with it’s scanners and agents. I would think that this would then generate an entry in your library, match itself to TheMovieDB.com posters and fanart, and import all the metadata necessary to display it in your library just as though you actually had the movie in your library. Except when you go to play the movie, it would play your “Offline Reminder.”
Just thinkin’ out loud here.
I had opened a new discussion on this topic for which I apologize. Since the above discussion was from Jan 2015 I felt discussion had ceased. The discussion above is not what I am after.
Specifically I would like an “offline/online” flag which would work much like the “watched/unwatched” flag. If the offline flag were set, Plex would skip deleting the entry from the database regardless of whether or not the file were present. Plex does not need to keep track of where the actual file resides.
That would work for me. I would love to be able to sort by director, actors, years, etc… and be able to see the movies that are on my shelves in that list.
Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate
