How to organise groups of private movies?

General Discussions
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I have a bounce of VideoCourses and I would like to add them to my Plex library.
The filesystem is organized in this way:

-> Course Title
-> -> 01 Lesson title.mp4
-> -> 02 Lesson title.mp4

I used the “Other video” library type but all the video are then shown in a single list.
I also tried the “TV Shows” type. The courses are grouped by folder (good) but the single lessons are not named correctly probably because Plex tried to get the info from internet.

2

Have you tried play lists?

I had some audio-books that listed files out of order when the files numbers incremented above 100. I got around this by creating playlists. I was able to add the content to a play list and re-oreder them.

3

Keep using the other library type. Try adding meta-data to the files, and then make sure the agents order has local assets at the top. You might have to do the Plex Dance to ensure the data is picked up, or at the least do a manual analyze for each movie as you add them back.

4

@ignazioc said:
I also tried the “TV Shows” type. The courses are grouped by folder (good) but the single lessons are not named correctly probably because Plex tried to get the info from internet.

‘Embed’ the lesson titles as meta tags into your mp4 files.
I understand you can use iTunes for this.

The mp4 format is ideal for this, since plex reads its meta data.
Then you should not have further problems with using the ‘tv show’ approach. I used this myself for a few courses.

If you want to also store short descriptions for both the whole course and the episodes, I recommend to use the .nfo importer agents for tv shows and to generate .nfo files with Ember Media Manager.

I further recommend to create a separate library for the courses. You can then set its primary metadata agent to ‘Personal Media Shows’. That way Plex doesn’t even try to get metadata from online sources.

5

People have been requesting folders/groups/organization within “Home video” libraries for ages. It’s a high-demand, frequently-demanded feature. Which means we’re likely to never see it.

6

I’m sorry but I dind’t find a solution yet.
Is there any PLEX API that I can call to update the title? In that case I can create my own small script

7

Why not just use your own directory structure and then in the client switch to folder view? That’s the easiest way to do it at present.