It works just fine with the Scanners/Series/ folder (TV Shows), and Scanners/Movies/ folder (Movies) but I don’t see any drop down for Music libraries after adding the Scanners/Music/ folder with some .py custom scanner in it.
Can we use custom Scanners for Music libraries? If so, how can I select my custom scanner when creating/editing the library.
Can we use Custom Scanners for Photo libraries? I haven’t tried anything on this yet, what would be the folder name in the Scanners/ folder I would have to create? Photos/? Pictures/?
If I want to create two music libraries and use the default scanner for the first one and a custom scanner for the second one, would I have to add and then remove the custom scanner every time I add content to the second library?
Taking a step back, the reason I am doing this is to index public records and private records separately. I have some tags and naming conventions on my private records. I could also run some bash script to pre-process my private records and make them ingestible by the default scanner. Would that be the commonly accepted solution?
You simply could not do that. You must either use the custom scanner full time or use the default scanner, trying to do otherwise could easily corrupt the database.
Understood
I hope you don’t think Plex will use all of your embedded tags, it will not. Plex will only use some of your embedded tags as fall back, it relies primarily on the file/folder names for matching.
Had no idea, I don’t read the source code on my spare time.
Plex is not going to match public/private records no matter what you do and forcing Plex to reach out to the internet to gather non-existent metadata is a waste of time and money.
Not sure I fully understand I guess Plex querries the internet for public musics metadata. I agree this is a waste of resources for private musics.
By the sound of things, you would probably be better off using an ‘Other Videos’ type library for both the public and private records and then manually add your posters and metadata as needed.
I will try Other Videos for my private musics, but I will probably keep my library of public musics in a Music library (I don’t want to mix them when consuming the media so it’s ok. I don’t like the manual approach to fill in metadata though, since my private musics are already ordered properly, this would be a waste of resources. I’d rather have something to automatically parse the file name and tags available (hence my initial request on scanners).
With an ‘Other Videos’ type library you could make use of the ‘Collections’ function and ‘group’ relevant files together for ease of location etc.
I will give Other Videos a try and check these features.
I don’t think “Plex does not scan new media” is specific enough so that anyone can opine on this.
What I meant to say and will clarify: A library of type Other Videos does not pick up music files (at least .mp3 files in my case). I tried again, pointing a library of this type to various location with various content type and it picked up .mp4 correctly but not .mp3. It didn’t pick up .jpeg either for example.
Again all this is not a surprise to me, I would expect Other Videos to only pick up file type related to video content.
I don’t think your solution using Other Videos to index my non-public musics would work.
