How would you recommend managing tv programs that aren't part of a tv season (MTV videos)?

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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In some instances I have some old VHS recordings either from my own archive or from archive.org. I just want to label them as I’d like without Plex attempting to ‘season-ify’ a tv show. For example, I have a lot of recordings of MTV music videos.

The problem: Plex thinks these music videos from 1989 are Pimp My Ride with Xzibit.

I’ve resorted to creating a different volume on my NAS and putting these recordings into a different library, “Music Videos” which just uses the ‘Personal Media’ Scanning Agent. But I’d prefer that they were mixed in with my TV Shows library - just without Plex mislabeling them.

Is it possible to have videos in a TV Shows library without Plex using the ‘Plex TV Series’ Agent?

Or, is it possible for COLLECTIONS to span different libraries? This way I could tag my Remote Control episodes in “TV Shows” and my MTV broadcast recordings in “Music Videos” with the tag “MTV” and see them someplace(?) all collated together.

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With the current-generation Plex TV Series agent you cannot mix “regular” series and “personal media” videos/clips.

I see two basic options on how to deal with those:

  1. Assign your music videos to a music library (assuming the videos are linked to existing artists in your library) → https://support.plex.tv/articles/205568377-adding-local-artist-and-music-videos/

  2. Have a separate “personal media” tv-show library or an “other video” type library for your music videos (as per your current workaround)

Plex will link same-named collections from different libraries and show them as related media. Many users have such a setup with movies and tv-shows linked to the same franchise (e.g. Star Wars, Marvel Cinematic Universe…)

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