Library types - music video clips

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What’s the best library type (Movie, TV Serie, Other Videos), to deal with videos that are not stand alone movies, TV shows or random personal videos.

I have two use case, music concerts or worst, i have some folders with 15 music video clips. In Plex, with the Movie library type it’s a mess.

Same with some cartoons that are not TV shows, but have 10 videos, it’s not recognised or sorted well when once in the Plex Player.

Any thoughts?

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Music videos

Have you considered including those as local extras to your music library?
https://support.plex.tv/articles/205568377-adding-local-artist-and-music-videos/

Videos will show as concert / music video / live video / … on the artist page.

If that’s not working for you, your best shots are going with an other-video type library or looking for some 3rd party agent that deals with music videos (not aware of one).

Individual cartoons

Would you mind sharing some details on those?
I’m often surprised of what kind of stuff is going as a tv-show :wink:

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Hello,

Music clips: I’ll look at local artist feature see if it works in my case, thanks!
Individual cartoons: you have some DVD with like 10 cartoons, of 10mn, so it’s not a long 1h30mn long film, neither as a TV cartoon with serie.

One example: Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection (Video 2015) - IMDb

This one for example, it’s not recognized and it’s a mess when in my “Movie” library.

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You could separate out each clip, to be a regular movie. You can then later add them all back into a https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/

Sometimes, you can find these kind of movies have been collected into a TV Show. You can then add them into a library of the type TV Shows, which enables you to organize these clips into the regular tv show structure,
Show - Season - Episode
Look out for them at TheTVDB and TheMovieDB
e.g. Disney Animated Shorts - TheTVDB.com

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I’ve got one such movie library called „Shorts“ which does that job for me :slight_smile:

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Hi all,

Thanks for your replies, really helped.
I sorted out the short cartoon thing.

I understand the local artist thing, the link you shared was really helpful, although it doesn’t work yet, adding -interview and then seeing it pop up on an artiste page. I need to dig a bit more.

Question: for concert DVD, like 1hour long files, what type of librarie & agent do you recommend? I struggle between “movie” & “other videos”. Same for agent, not really sure that “Plex Movie” works well for music DVD.

Thanks!

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You can start with the old agent, which means “Plex Movie Scanner” and “TheMovieDatabase” agent.
Rest is described in this thread [HowTo] Media file prep for Concerts or similar music-related videos in Plex

That being said, I’ve successfully converted my old concerts library to use the new “Plex Movie” scanner and agent and it works quite as well as before.

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Brilliant, Very helpful, thanks!

Also, i’m trying to make work the “Global Music Video Folder”, to have things centralised, and then showing up on the artist page in Plex. Question I have is, do you necessarily have all the files (.mkv or so) at the root of say ‘MusicVideo’ folder / library, or can you have a sub folder per artist and then the file inside it?

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Subfolder per artist. Use the identical artist name for the folder as it appears in your music library.

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OK great.
Question:
The 'Local Artist & Music Videos" way of tagging things with -concert or -interviews at the end of the name, only work when you put the file in the same album folder (in your “Music” library") and doesn’t really work when doing it in a Global music video Folder, right?

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Unfortunately, yes.

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