Hi there
Plex Connect is just great. As I prefer searching my movies by folders, I am sad, subfolders are not visible.
Folder Tree
Police Academy Complete
Police Academy 1
File.mkv
As I can't enter the Subfolder, I can't play the Movie. :-(
Plex Connect is running on Windows 8 (as Administrator)
Python release (newest but not 3.x)
Is this a restriction of Apple TV or an error.
If you need some log files. Let me know how to create and where to find them.
Thanks for your help
There’s another thread on this topic and it tries to explain why you should really be using “Collections” for movie boxsets and not the By Folder view.
http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/73384-sub-folders/
Yes, collections seems to be the way to go, and has been working fine for me since I implemented it. The only problem I had was that there isn't, at present, any way in the GUI to select multiple items and add tags to them, for example, you want to tag the whole of season 5 of Fringe with a tag of "Fringe - Season 5". You need to edit each file in PMS Media Manager and add the tags.
I am just about to post up a thread elsewhere about how I've added a bit of automation to this by modifying the plex sqlite3 database. I will post a link to the thread once I'm done.
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Here is the aforementioned thread: http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/77010-setting-up-tags-collections-for-multiple-tv-show-episodes-at-once/
I'm not sure why you'd want to even do that??? Plex handles TV shows perfectly fine and presents then in the library in a Show/Season/Episode structure that's easy to navigate. Why would you want to add Fringe Season 5 to a collection?The only problem I had was that there isn't, at present, any way in the GUI to select multiple items and add tags to them, for example, you want to tag the whole of season 5 of Fringe with a tag of "Fringe - Season 5". You need to edit each file in PMS Media Manager and add the tags.
I'm not sure why you'd want to even do that??? Plex handles TV shows perfectly fine and presents then in the library in a Show/Season/Episode structure that's easy to navigate. Why would you want to add Fringe Season 5 to a collection?
When I use the "by folder" listing, it did not show the seasons in a per season manner. It could well be the way I have the structure setup, and I did not overly wish to change the existing structure as it worked fine on other setups, for example, opelec running on my AppleTV 1st gen - so xbmc - In addition, some of my shows have filenames that don't match the required format, and so I'd need to rename them, again, changing structure of existing data to work with Plex Connect.
PlexConnect does not walk the full folder structure, and the solution suggested was to use collections / tags for the shows.
Perhaps I'm missing something though. When I did try the mac Plex client, it was ok with the structure I had, as it would allow me to "drill down" via the "by folder" option.
No, what I'm saying is you should never need to use "By Folder" for TV Shows. Just setup a proper library section as TV Shows, then go into that section choose the show you want and drill down to the season level followed by the episode level, this is the way the Plex Library is supposed to be used.
PlexConnect does not walk the full folder structure, and the solution suggested was to use collections / tags for the shows.
Nowhere was it ever suggested (at least not by me) to use collections for TV Shows, collections are primarily designed for movie boxsets.
What purpose does the "By Folder View" serve?
I place TV shows as such:
The Voice
- Australia
- - Season 1
- - Season 2
- USA
- - Season 1
- UK
- - Season 2
Where I have nested 'collections'.
This is the only logical way (or proper way roidy) to have TV shows from various countries without ten root folders, and it's logical, multiple root folders defeats the logic of folders at all. I have many shows and movies that fit this typical collection structure. My other media centre meta generators and MCE plugins support this. It makes no sense to me to have each countries folders as a base folder. In that case sometimes I have up to 10 countries the show runs in (aka Got Talent) and then you're not picking a 'TV Show', but a TV location as the root.
To me the true logic is:
TV Show Name
- Location (Australia/USA/UK/NZ/etc)
- - Seasons
- - - TV Show Episode Files
- Extras (aka youtube clips, specials - would be great if this skipped meta checking)
- - Extras Files
or
TV Show Name
- Seasons
- - Episodes
- Extras (aka youtube clips, specials - would be great if this skipped meta checking)
Same with Movies
Movie Collection Name
- Movie Name
- - Movie Files
- Extras
- - Extras Files
or
Movie Name
- Movie Files
Umm.... I still don't agree with the way your library is set up, the Plex library is designed to mirror the way TV Shows are stored in theTVDB and sites like it:-
The Voice(UK)
--- Season 1
------Eps 1
------Eps2
---Season 2
------Eps 1
------Eps 2
The Voice(US)
--- Season 1
------Eps 1
------Eps2
---Season 2
------Eps 1
------Eps 2
And so on..........
Each show, regardless of country, gets it's own root.
Why do you store ONE show from TEN countries? This is strange... anyway, I guess this is not the real issue.
If I understand you correctly your way of thinking is...
"I would like to watch 'The Voice'... I guess, today I would prefer the 'Australian' version... Ah, here it is."
Start with the localization - which also might get the language settings better:
"I would like to watch something 'Australian'... hey, 'The Voice' perfectly fits my taste today... Got it."
With the second approach you could add different (localized) media folders to PMS, everyone with Movies and Shows to your liking.
See, the issue always is on HOW you look at things. We won't be able to get everything right for everyone...
