Library option for Documentaries

Adding Library for Documentaries will be very useful, where we can add both Single or Series type documentaries under one Library.

I guess the problem is that one documentary might be considered a movie while another is considered a TV show. And unless something has changed you must choose one of those while setting up a library and thus not getting matches for all documentaries.

My doc library is set up as a movie library and it works in most cases but sometimes I have to do some manual work to get it right.

So while a dedicated documentary library that scans for both movies and shows wouldn’t help me all that much I can still see the problem.

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If there is a way to make plex search through databases for both movies and shows then yes, there’s really no need for a documentary library.

But is that possible?

Even if it is possible one argument for having a documentary library is so that it by default do just that, which makes it easier for the user.

Another reason for another library type is that when I add a new documentary to my library it comes up under “recently added movies”. It would be better if it came up under “recently added documentaries”.

Again, I don’t care much about this, I would rather see that the development resources put elsewhere but I do see the point n having more library types, or at least having more ways to configure existing libraries. (Maybe there is and I’m just to lazy to search for it.)

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This request essentially boils down to “allow both movies and tv shows within the same library”. Which is already an existing feature request.

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Which request is it you speak of?