My first question is this still the predominant recommendation to structure one’s movie archive.
My second question is I started grouping movies for better organization and notice something strange:
First what do I mean by grouping, rather than have
Men in black
Men In Black 2
Men in Black 3
I’;ve created a folder Men In black to house them all, so
Men In Black/Men In Black 1 (YEAR)
Men In Black/Men In Black 2 (YEAR)
Men In Black/Men In Black 3 (YEAR)
Not sure if that’s a great idea, but plex doesn’t seem to mind and I like the looks on the command line. However I’ve notice somethning stange recently with with approach
if I have:
XYZ (YEAR)/XYZ (YEAR).480p.mkv
XYZ (YEAR)/XYZ (YEAR).1080p.mkv
The web UI shows one poster and in the upper left cover I see that I have multiple versions of said movie.
However, in the men in black example:
Men In Black/Men In Black 1 (YEAR)/Men in Black (YEAR).480p.mkv
Men In Black/Men In Black 1 (YEAR)/Men in Black (YEAR).1080p.mkv
Men In Black/Men In Black 2 (YEAR)
Men In Black/Men In Black 3 (YEAR)
For the Men in black 1, i’ll see two posters on the web UI and in other cases I see the one poster with the upper left reference. Thoughts?
Should be Title (YEAR)/title (YEAR).[res].mkv
Plex will ignore anything in [](In terms of matching or mismatching)
But yeah, the folder structure look okay.
Not so great. But as long as it works for you(and Plex)
Try changing to [] to see if fixes your issue. You may have to do The Plex Dance ™.
But as I said. If it works for you then keep it up.
Though I’m not sure why you have two copies of MiB1(not merged). The only thing I can think of is each MiB movie is using a different matching agent(PlexMovie vs TheMovieDb). That or one of the movies is not matched at all.
I don’t understand your question.
But your bad example would be Title (YEAR).fullscreen.unrated.directors_cut.480p.mkv
Change to… Title (YEAR) [fullscreen] [unrated] [directors_cut] [480p].mkv
Title (Year) [ any optional - texts - can - be here ].ext because the scanner ignores anything within the []. Care should be taken to avoid any spurious punctuation.
You’re kidding, right? I have thousands of movies, I break them down into general categories (Action/Drama/Horror) and have a separate library for each genre. Do you all really put all your movies into individual folders, or have all your movies in just one folder? I can’t imagine trying to navigate to find anything that way. Especially since I don’t always agree with whatever a default genre may be from IMDB or something.
Yep. For the most part.
I think you can guess the rest.
Ahh! That’s where we differ. I think genre is the biggest load of dog-s#$@t. They NEVER make sense and are always wrong!! And change from time-to-time.
Not to mention Action/Drama/Horror can be said for every movie. More so with drama.
On that note, how about a little romance?
So I will never categorize movies based on genres.
So…how do you find stuff to watch? I mean…I usually figure what sort of mood I’m in, then go wander through a section with all those movies in it and see what tickles my fancy. Plus I don’t know that I want “Air Bud” to show up next to “Alien”…although to be honest, both are terrifying in their own way.
Hmm. Interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever thought of it that way.
I’ve never been in a ‘mood’ to watch anything in particular via genre before, or at least, if I had I don’t remember. Don’t know… Most everything I don’t want to watch but once I start the film/series I find that I’ll keep watching for the most part. I just watched Stranger Things s03 though didn’t watch ep1. I may get around to watching the first ep… Maybe not. Just watched Jessica Jones(I’m liying, I only watched the last episode).
Just watched
Spider-Man: Far from Home
Dark Phoenix
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Men in Black: International
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Hellboy
They were all boring to me but that didn’t stop me from watching to the end.
Guess what I’m saying is I don’t watch movies on a mood and my expectations are very low so not to ruin the suspension of disbelief.
EDIT: I lied, i still got 34 minutes left of John Wick: Chapter 3.
Movies are slowly going into their own folders (kicking and screaming) - the most annoying, time consuming, infuriating requirement absolutely devised by pure evil. Plex developers have never opened Windows Explorer to look in their media folders. Apparently.
40 thousand+ movies in one Library?
Only if you’re a Plex Employee/Designer (with your two test movies) or a rabid Plex fan. Everybody else creates a few libraries for sorting/filing purposes - the details are as varied as the users.
I have 17 movie libraries: 20s-30s, 40s, 50s, 60s-70s, Science Fiction, Science Fiction - Vintage… and so on, and on, and on… When a developer/employee clicks on an actor image they’re taken to all the movies with that actor in them because both of their test movies are in the same library. When a user clicks an actor image, they just get that one library searched (and yes, most of the movies with that person in it aren’t in that library).
No, I won’t be moving all my movies into one library (but I said that same thing about movie folders a while back).
Bottom line, if you use Plex you have to use like the Developers use it or it’s a constant battle you wage against an enemy that simply doesn’t see the problem.
See, that’s closer to what I do! Lots of different libraries for each genre. So my directory structure is x:files/Movies/Grown_Up_Movies/Action/ /Comedy /Drama…etc. With another main directory for Kids_Movies to keep their Air Bud stuff away from anything I have to look at.
Now within each of those directories, I have a mix of files and folders. For example I have /Action/Marvel_Movies and even inside that I will have /Action/Marvel_Movies/Iron_Man_Movies and so far I’ve never had an issue. I cannot imagine going back through and moving every movie into it’s own folder. The above breakdown also makes it a lot easier if I give a friend movies. I just run a list command to show everything, and they can point out if they want all the Fast and Furious movies and I know they are all in one sub-folder. Doing a folder for each movie, they’d be all over the place because the names aren’t consistent between movies.
40 thousand movies sounds like the Library of Congress.
Is this figurative or literal?
Filebot will sort a lot of stuff and make it perfect, Yes even subdirectories / genre clarifications / when used correctly. It can do a lot more than just put perfect names into a single library.
