I have been collecting videos for MANY years for professional and personal purposes, such as home movies. Most are not movies, TV shows, music, et cetera. 99% of the time I just access them with Windows Explorer but I’m wondering if I can use Plex for this to enable me to access them remotely. The thing that Plex seems to lack is extensive subfolder support which means so many things get clumped together.
For example: I have a DIY folder which contains MANY subfolders on welding, wood working, forging, metal working, tools, engines, electronics, construction techniques, microcontrollers, Linux, lasers, et cetera. Many of those folders contain hundreds of videos that I don’t want clumped together as I could never find the one I want that way and yet I also don’t want to add all of those individual folders to my home screen either. What I really need is for Plex to offer a directory structure UI that I can navigate appropriately just as in Windows Explorer. I don’t need a picture icon for these files. It wouldn’t add much of value. Can Plex do that? I hope so because without that, and having tens of thousands of already very organized files, Plex is useless to me. This strikes me as a common need and yet I cannot find a resource that addresses it directly. Any ideas?
Thanks.
You could try adding those videos to a Other Video type library and navigate it By Folders (or more than one library for different purposes). Plex will still give you a thumb next to the video name
You might still want to check out some of the other features of Plex and how to further organize your content.
Yeah, the “Movies” and “TV Shows” libraries also use a special agent to scan the file names and compare against online sources to get metadata. If you have anything not on IMDB/TMDB/TVDB, then it is best to use an “Other Videos” library as tom80H says. I myself use this for my meticulously folder’d and organized drone footage I take with my Mavic Mini. Works great.
