What do I pick for sitting up Music Videos. My choices are Movies, TV Shows, Music, Photos, and Other Videos. It really isn’t just music as they are also videos.
I had used Kodi so I have fan art, posters and nfo files for each video. I assume once I choose which type, I just point to the folder?
I fear trying to get metadata on the net. Can I just use what my nfo files have. I don’t want to have to do the plex dance.
With Kodi I had party mode. I clicked party mode and it would randomly play music videos continuously. Is there a party mode in Plex?
Any other advice my fellow Plex users have to offer on Music Video library setup.
I have no idea how they behave once you’ve added them, or any playback options you have. Greatly looking forward to anyone with experience weighing in.
That looks scary. I have NFO files for each video. I just need random play or what is called Party Mode in Kodi. Right now I have not added that library and I might use Kodi just to play music videos.
Like you Rando, I am looking forward to those with experience chiming in. Thanks for the link and comments.
Personally, I don’t have many videos. I have only a few for my personal favorite artists. So I added these to my existing music library, using the above linked “official” way.
However, those videos cannot be used really for Party Mode.
There is unfortunately no way to e.g. filter out only music videos of a certain genre or artist and play them shuffled.
All you can do is add each video manually to a playlist.
If you are after a pure Music Video library, and you happen to have .nfo files and posters already, then install the .nfo importer agent and create a library which uses this as its primary agent.
If you don’t have .nfo files, I assume your best bet is an ‘Other Videos’ library.
Other users have created more elaborate workarounds, using Personal Media Shows. Where the Artist is a tv show and a music video is an episode of this show.
Blockquote If you are after a pure Music Video library, and you happen to have .nfo files and posters already, then install the .nfo importer agent and create a library which uses this as its primary agent.
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Thanks Otto. Sounds like I am almost there. I went to the google play store to see if they have NFO Importer Agent but did not find it. I think that is the only way I can get it installed on the Nvidia Shield. Is there another way?
Once I do set up this library is there a party mode function for that?
One thing this tells me is that when adding libraries one can’t tell Plex to scan local nfo only.
Unfortunately not. The Shield is locked-down (**** Android), so you cannot access the folder where you are supposed to put the custom agent in.
There is no such thing as a Party Mode in Plex. (Unless you count shuffled playbck “Party Mode”)
It can scan local info, but not local .nfo
An ‘Other Videos’ library is only using the file name (and maybe some of the embedded meta data – but only if the video happens to be in mp4/m4v format)
This is sounding more and more like something I may not want to invest a lot of time in. Thanks, @OttoKerner for the always incredibly informative posts.
I did not know that. Plex gets meta data from scraping internet sources. It does not read the .NFO files. I write .NFO files for my home movies. And I guess those won’t show up when I link that library. Learning stuff all the time. Thanx.
In my garage I have multiple tools that can do the same thing. Depends on what I am doing as to which one I grab. I am starting to view media solutions in a similar vain. I may just need a different solution for Music Videos. I have a shield so maybe I just grab VLC from the google play store assuming VLC plays nice with my NAS. What could it hurt? Or use MrMC for that.
