Is it possible to have Library with Movies and TV shows?

General Discussions
1

Is it possible to setup a library with 2 sub libraries

So Plex likes to get media in the following format

! /Media
! /Movies
! movie content
! /Music
! music content
! /TV Shows
! television content

I would like to do it in the following format

! /Media
! /Documentaires
! /Movies
! movie content
! /TV Shows
! television content
! /Movies
! movie content
! /Music
! music content
! /TV Shows
! television content

Point being to have Movie Documentaires search Movie database and TV Documentaires to have episodes and seach TV database

2

/Media
/Documentaires
______/Movies
____________movie content
______/TV Shows
____________television content
/Movies
______movie content
/Music
______music content
/TV Shows
______television content

3

This is how I have my libraries set up. So they are not “sub libraries” as such, just separate ones:

Library 01: /Movies
______movie content (points to NAS/…/Movies)
Library 02: /TV Shows
______television content (points to NAS/…/TV Shows)

Library 01 is of type “Movies” in Plex terms
Library 02 is of type “TV Shows” in Plex terms

Each library has it’s own agents and under “Advanced” I have confirgured the scanner for movies for 01 and TV for 02. Is that what you were after?

See: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200289266

4

Thanks but this doesn’t answer the question. Sorting just Movies or just TV shows is fine Plex does a great job at this.

But I want to create a Documentaries Library which has both movie and TV shows in that library.

Best compromise I have looked at is set it up as a TV show library and manually update movies.

5

The answer to your question is NO. Unless you use home videos which wouldn’t give you any metadata.

6

Actually, you can add some TV Shows into a Movie library. You can use TheMovieDB agent which will recognize some TV Shows, but they won’t be organized like a TV Show, just random episodes in your library.