I have a recently set up plex server - working well with local plex web interface and iOS app. I created only 3 libraries. Each points to only a single folder on the server PC. The 3 libraries were simply Music, Movies, and Photos.
On my iOS device, a category showed up today of ‘Recently added music videos’. GREAT! I didn’t realize I had music videos. The problem I’m having is trying to locate the actual media itself so I can better organize it, and create an appropriate library for it.
When I search from the home screen of the plex app or web UI, it doesn’t show up. I’ve added it to a play list so I can reference it again, but I simply cannot fine the location of the actual file.
Is there a way to view properties of an item in Plex to see the path to the actual file?
For some reason, I don’t see that option to view media info as shown in that link. Here’s what I’m looking at. As you can see, I see the three circle ‘option/other’ menu item. In the drop down menu, nothing shows up referring to Media Info, or even basic properties.
Also, you can see the name of the video is 'DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist…" But when I search for it, nothing comes up…
This search seems like it ‘should’ return the video shown above, when searching ‘This Server’ for ‘DJ Shadow’ - Instead, just a single album appears, which is not the video shown in the above screen captures.
As an IT professional, I feel like I must be missing something incredibly basic here, but I just can’t seem to find it…
For what it’s worth - I see the options menu for movies contains additional fields, ie, ‘Get Info’ - but it doesnt seem to have that option for music items.
The item I’m curious about here specifically, showed up in my ‘discover’ list, under the heading ‘Recently added music videos’ - of which, I didn’t realize I had added any.
It doesn’t show up in a search, so how would it appear in my reccent added list?
@beckfield said:
This won’t work in a playlist, because a playlist isn’t a media file on your hard drive.
Go find the album where the tracks are listed. That’s where you’ll find the option.
It’s not an album though - Its a video - perhaps a poorly named video file, but still a video - Plex labeled it “DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist…” which I would assume I could search for, but it doesn’t return in any search.
@beckfield said:
This won’t work in a playlist, because a playlist isn’t a media file on your hard drive.
Go find the album where the tracks are listed. That’s where you’ll find the option.
It’s not an album though - Its a video - perhaps a poorly named video file, but still a video - Plex labeled it “DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist…” which I would assume I could search for, but it doesn’t return in any search.
So in your Test Playlist, click on the video name, which should take you to a detail page for the video. From there, click the ‘…’ overflow menu at the top right, and the Get Info link should be there.
Indeed you are but the IT Professional in you should have made you want to go digging.
You placed the album on the Playlist. Since you know where it was to place on the Playlist, you only need return there, open the album to expose the songs. Once the songs are exposed, hover to the right of the play time and the ellipsis will appear. Click it. Click ‘Get Info’. Magic happens.
So click on the video name, which should take you to a detail page for the video. From there, click the ‘…’ overflow menu at the top right, and the Get Info link should be there.
Like this? - Still stumped - Though I sincerely appreciate the help!!
@ChuckPA said:
Indeed you are but the IT Professional in you should have made you want to go digging.
You placed the album on the Playlist. Since you know where it was to place on the Playlist, you only need return there, open the album to expose the songs. Once the songs are exposed, hover to the right of the play time and the ellipsis will appear. Click it. Click ‘Get Info’. Magic happens.
Thanks for the confidence Chuck - However, 1) its not an album - just a single video. and 2) It showed up ONCE on a list of ‘recently added music videos’ on my iOS app.
I was curious where it came from, since I had not created a music video library, nor had I memory of adding this video to any library. I just re-imaged this computer this weekend, and added ONLY three folders of my media from a separate hard drive. There is no media on the OS Hard drive, only a fresh Win10 install, and plex - pointed to a secondary hard drive with just media.
So, being curious, I opened up plex web UI from my work computer while looking at this video on my iphone. it didn’t show up anywhere. So, to help maybe be able to find it again, I created a test playlist and added this video to it so I could search later to find out where this file actually is (Windows search doesn’t locate this file) - Alas - no luck. The only place it seems to exists is within this playlist.
I know it sounds ridiculous - This is why I’m struggling with this so much.
So again, I appreciate the help, but unfortunately, still not solved… Very curious…
@beckfield said:
That’s the right place, but there should be more items on that menu.
Is it possible that this is in a library that a friend has shared with you? That would explain the missing menu items.
I wish? Where would it show what libraries have been shared with me? I have a ‘friend’ account on one other persons plex server, but I have only logged in once, and not viewed, listened, copied, bookmarked, etc. any of that persons content. Additionally, if there is a way to incorporate a shared plex library, Im not aware of how? I logged into his library to see what it all looks like, then logged out -
In the top left of my plex home page, it lists only my server with a check mark, and a green lock. The only other thing listed is ‘Setup Plex Cloud’ which I have not done.
In the list of Libraries, I see only the three libraries I have created.
So click on the video name, which should take you to a detail page for the video. From there, click the ‘…’ overflow menu at the top right, and the Get Info link should be there.
Like this? - Still stumped - Though I sincerely appreciate the help!!
I’ll recap a bit and then we’ll roll up the sleeves >:)
You have a singular item. On a playlist somewhere or just a search result? At this point, it doesn’t matter
Install “WebTools” (the plug-in) into your PMS.
Export your movie libraries since it’s a video. This gives you searchable text. As you increase the export detail level, it will tell you more about the item.
Now just open the text edit and search any sub-string. You may have multiple hits, but you’ll find it.
When done, put the hammer back in the shed until needed again
I think you’ll enjoy the level of information and capability D.ane22 has placed in it.
Plex just stepped up to the 3.x destkop. There’s been a few bumps with it. You just happened to fall into the pothole.
WebTools is SUPER cool about helping you see where everything is. In it’s CSV format, you can look in a spreadsheet and sort it. That makes creating a more logical structure much easier.
