I had to reformat my computer/set up my server again and my settings changed upon completion. I’ve always labeled my media files as as [Name] - [Genre] - [Year] (I’m aware plex/other systems could automatically do this for me) and want them to show up in my plex server exactly as the file is “Name - Genre - Year”, etc. How do I do this? As of now they are showing up without the hyphens which looks really bad.
Thanks
Remove the ‘Movies’ library.
Re-create it as ‘Other Videos’.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/plex-media-server/libraries/
I love this and it’s how I have things set up, but bear in mind that in the new apps, as far as I can tell, only “movies” display their poster rather than a random screenshot, if you care about the optics. I had to remove early access for that reason.
Not sure that’s true. Local artwork is not described in the descriptions on how to name personal media – but apparently Plex is picking them up anyway (just tested this on my own home videos with an image file using the same name as one of my videos).
I assume that Other Videos libraries don’t show posters because there are usually no portrait-mode posters for this kind of content.
I think you can however supply your own landscape-oriented “posters”.
By putting a file named fanart.jpg beside the video file. Just as explained in the article for Local Media Assets for movies. https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/
Yeah I dunno, it works fine in the old app for me. Not in the new one. But may also be because I use folder view.
There is no artwork support in folder view.
Any more, or ever? Because I’m looking at it on my web interface and my LG non-early-release app; all posters that I supplied the URL when editing the video in my libraries.
There never were posters on the folders in folder view mode.
If you click through to the preplay page of a single movie, you should see the artwork again, because this is then the same look as in the regular view mode.
Already had them under ‘other videos’. Still showing up without hyphens.
Right, i don’t mean on the folder icons. I mean the individual other video mkv files browsed in a library on folder view. They display selected posters without a fanart file but not once you look at the same view in early access (unless this was fixed recently). I personally use folder view because I don’t like to separate movies vs tv series, other videos w/local data because I watch some more obscure films that never seem to match correctly, and the regular interface shows posters for individual files and icon-only folder icons: seemingly no more re the former, just screenshots.
