I’m curious to know if anyone else manages their Plex library like it’s their full-time job. I’m constantly implementing new learns and tricks, changing the file structure and naming schemes. Right now I’m reviewing all of the genres again, making sure that “Sci-Fi” is “Science Fiction”, etc.
I am pretty detailed with mine, but I seem to always have issues with those “special” episodes that don’t fit into a season…
Personally, I don’t go to the trouble of sorting by genre. If I did, all it would take is to update my FileBot template to restructure those items I drag/drop into it. It would do all the work. It doesn’t take much time at all once you’ve got names in line to begin with (which it REALLY excels at)
Plex/Calibre/ComicRack are just traps that will convert you from consumption to organization as a fulltime hobby. Constantly looking to make things more intuitive, easier to find, require less intervention . But in the end, you just fall deeper into this abyss.
I spent a little bit figuring out how to make Filebot name everything the way I want, and that’s it. I rip a Blu-Ray, run a script, it’s done. I use Channels DVR to record everything, and Plex picks up their naming scheme fine. I’d much rather spend time watching my movies and tv shows than organizing my movies and tv shows.
I had some relevant thoughts on this a couple years ago:
1-TV Shows; 2-Movies; 3-Music; 4-Misc Files
Named that way for sorting in the menu.
Filing? Not really. Movies/A-I; Movies/J-Q; Movies/R-Z on each drive (4 of them). TV Shows.
They all go somewhere in there.
I’m with @timstephens24, I’d rather spend my time watching.
All movies are in the format-- NAME (YEAR).
And all shows are SERIES-NAME (YEAR) - sXXeXX - EPISODE-NAME.
I remove all metedata from every file and re-encode media that doesn’t fit my needs. I don’t do genres though… That’s a matter of perspective. The most violent movies may also be a comedy.
I do my very best to not have to make any changes from Plex itself. If the media is correct at the file system level then all should work without a problem.
I just name my stuff in the way Plex requires to fetch metadata, then let Plex take care of the rest of the work. The only thing that is missing is proper “Collections” which for some reason Plex can’t seem to get its act together on.
I’m not at all obsessed with organization and file-structure…but I am extremely demanding about compression-efficiency and compatibility. I spend far too much time compressing/re-compressing.
organization? meh.
Posters & background images, on the other hand…very particular about.
Obsessive enough that I still pay for Metabrowser to have complete control over my metadata
That sounds like proper OCD. I have better things to spend time on than Plex. I just make 3 folders inside media: Series, Film, Music. I just dump everything in and Plex needs to sort the metadata or else cannot be bothered. The series one has subfolders per serie, the music one if the mp3 is lucky enough to be loaded as a full CD. The rest is dumped in ‘Music\Misc’. Films are just on one heap.
