BUT the problem I’m having is that the above naming only works for single track videos, not for FULL CONCERT videos.
I’d like to keep FULL CONCERT videos living along side my audio files. Is there a way to make Plex recognize those from the Music library?
Example:
ls -1 albums/1997\ -\ Sehnsucht/
'01 - Sehnsucht.flac'
'02 - Engel.flac'
'03 - Tier.flac'
'04 - Bestrafe mich.flac'
'05 - Du hast.flac'
'05 - Du hast-video.mkv'
'06 - Bück dich.flac'
'07 - Spiel mit mir.flac'
'08 - Klavier.flac'
'09 - Alter Mann.flac'
'10 - Eifersucht.flac'
'11 - Küss mich (Fellfrosch).flac'
'12 - Stripped.flac'
Above, since 05 - Du hast-video.mkv is a single track video, it shows up under EXTRAS for Rammstein.
However below doesn’t work
ls -1 live/1999\ -\ Live\ aus\ Berlin/
'01 - Spiel mit mir.flac'
'02 - Bestrafe mich.flac'
'03 - Weißes Fleisch.flac'
'04 - Sehnsucht.flac'
'05 - Asche zu Asche.flac'
'06 - Wilder Wein.flac'
'07 - Heirate mich.flac'
'08 - Du riechst so gut.flac'
'09 - Du hast.flac'
'10 - Bück dich.flac'
'11 - Engel.flac'
'12 - Rammstein.flac'
'13 - Laichzeit.flac'
'14 - Wollt ihr das Bett in Flammen sehen_.flac'
'15 - Seemann.flac'
'Rammstein - 1999 - Live Aus Berlin-concert.mkv'
I’d like to be able to see Rammstein - 1999 - Live Aus Berlin-concert.mkv listed under EXTRAS, but that doesn’t show up!
I’ve also tried renaming the file to 00 - Live Aus Berlin-concert.mkv and 16 - Live Aus Berlin-concert.mkv, but even after scanning and refreshing the library, Plex didn’t pick those up either
As it can be seen, Du Hast is shown in Extras, but not Live Aus Berlin, which is what I’d like to see as well
That page has one error on it. Your file named Rammstein - 1999 - Live Aus Berlin-concert.mkv should work, but put it in the Artist folder, rather than the Album folder.
Single-track videos that correspond to a music track should be left alongside the music file, but a full concert, or a featurette, should be up one level, in the Artist folder. I think I reported the error on that page some time back, but it hasn’t been fixed.
But after moving the videos to the base folder, it didn’t seem to work for me – the full concerts didn’t show up when they were sitting next to the albums and live subfolders.
I had to move everything to the base folder and delete the subfolders so now it looks like this, which is really annoying
[Rammstein]$ ls -1
1995 - Du riechst so gut/
1995 - Herzeleid/
1996 - Seemann/
1997 - Das Modell/
1997 - Du hast/
1997 - Engel/
1997 - Sehnsucht/
1997 - Sehnsucht (2023 Anniversary Edition)/
1998 - Du riechst so gut '98/
1998 - Stripped/
1999 - Live aus Berlin (live)/
2000 - Wut will nicht sterben (feat. PUHDYS)/
2001 - Ich will/
2001 - Links 2 3 4/
2001 - Mutter/
2001 - Sonne/
2002 - Feuer Frei!/
2002 - Mutter/
2004 - Amerika/
2004 - Mein Teil/
2004 - Ohne Dich/
2004 - Reise, Reise/
2005 - Benzin/
2005 - Keine Lust/
2005 - Rosenrot/
2006 - Mann Gegen Mann/
2006 - Völkerball (live)/
2009 - Liebe ist fur alle da/
2009 - ■■■■■/
2010 - Haifisch/
2010 - Ich Tu Dir Weh/
2011 - Made in Germany 1995 - 2011 (compilation)/
2011 - Mein Land/
2012 - Mein Herz Brennt/
2015 - Raritaten/
2015 - XXI - Klavier (piano)/
2017 - Paris (live)/
2019 - Ausländer/
2019 - Deutschland/
2019 - Radio/
2019 - Rammstein/
2022 - Adieu/
2022 - Angst/
2022 - Dicke Titten/
2022 - Zeit/
2022 - Zick Zack/
Rammstein - 1999 - Live Aus Berlin-concert.mkv
Rammstein - 2017 - Paris-concert.mkv
I didn’t expect that, but I’ve never organized my releases that way, so I’ve never run into it. Plex doesn’t recommend those subfolders. That might by why it can’t find them.
ok, I wanted to give one last update. I did some more testing and was able to keep the subfolders so now everything is neatly organized again. I had to put the concert video file one folder up from the Live album itself.
This is what my folder structure looks like now
$ tree -L 3
.
└── Rammstein/
├── albums/
│ └── 1997 - Sehnsucht/
├── live/
│ ├── 1999 - Live aus Berlin/
│ ├── Rammstein - 1999 - Live Aus Berlin-concert.mkv # NOTE that this works here and shows up under EXTRAS yay!
└── singles/
└── 1995 - Du riechst so gut/
Also when using subfolders, the following DID NOT work – the “Live Aus Berlin” video did not show up in EXTRAS. It can’t be at the top level of the Artist sitting next to the other subfolders.
.
└── Rammstein/
├── albums/
│ └── 1997 - Sehnsucht/
├── live/
│ ├── 1999 - Live aus Berlin/
├── Rammstein - 1999 - Live Aus Berlin-concert.mkv # THIS doesn't work in the top level when there are subfolders
└── singles/
└── 1995 - Du riechst so gut/
And lastly, to reiterate, this is what I originally had which ALSO did not work - Nested under the actual Live album
.
└── Rammstein/
├── albums/
│ └── 1997 - Sehnsucht/
│ ├── 05 - Du hast.flac
│ ├── 05 - Du hast-video.mkv # This works and shows up in extras
├── live/
│ ├── 1999 - Live aus Berlin/
│ │ ├── 01 - Spiel mit mir.flac
│ │ └── Rammstein - 1999 - Live Aus Berlin-concert.mkv # THIS doesn't work - needs to be one level up, but can't be 2 levels up at the Artist folder since I'm using subfolders
└── singles/
└── 1995 - Du riechst so gut/
This is what I wish had worked from the beginning. IMO this last way of organizing is a better, but I can live with the workaround of moving those full concert files one level up
Summary for someone out there:
If all your folders live at the top level, then your concert videos must also live in the top level.
But if you use a subfolder structure, then your concert videos must live on the second level of directories, not the first
tested on Plex through docker
linuxserver/plex:latest which currently points to 1.32.5.7349-8f4248874-ls180
Logging in and going to Settings > General, this is the version I see: Version 4.108.0
