Music Video tracker/agent suggestion (not library)

[motefuzz]

Hello there!
Been messing with Plex for several years now. I have been carting around a gigantic music video collection since the early 2000s (there are 4000+ items in it) and after jumping around to many programs over the years (XMBC, Servio etc) Plex is going to be my forever home. I have the dedicated global Music Videos folder set up so my Music library reacts to it. I’ve also started a dedicated Music Video library (MOVIES library type, Plex Movie agent) for them so I can have metadata in them and sort by director and make collections (TV appearances by specific talk or award show performances, Themed, subgenres). THIS RIGHT HERE is the feature I’ve been searching for my entire life. I just wanted a program I could spit a bunch of Puff Daddy (or whoever!) videos into, and using the IMDB I could sort them by director and see which ones Paul Hunter or Hype Williams or Spike Jonze did. That’s an incredible new reality that I’m just getting with Plex. (XMBC did it, but so much lead time had to go into research and prepping NFO files)

One snafu with all this that’s preventing me from living in a utopia: Opening up all these crazy titles to IMDB via the Plex Movies agent brings back a lot of garbage results, that aren’t smartly filtered. If I accidentally hit a button, or change an agent on a whim half of my library will (after 6 hours) match to a Korean romantic comedy from 2005.

Here is what I suggest: Rather than making a dedicated Music Video subcategory in Libraries, why not just have a dedicated music video agent. All you would really have to do here on a logical level is filter down the IMDB or Movie Database results to Shorts or anything below 10 minutes maybe. Maybe limit the results to one language, maybe have some way to filter the results by decade to the range of time the artist appears active in the music side of the database, who knows.

In any event, I love what’s going on here, and I’m so close to getting it. I would just love some sort of feeling of security.

Before anyone asks “why is this necessary they are all on YouTube??” I would think deeply a moment about who exactly uploads these files to YouTube and if you should be putting all your eggs in one company’s basket.

[tom80H]

There’s an existing feature suggestion discussing better support for a “standalone music video section” without the dependency to existing artists in a music library. That suggestion also discusses how to obtain metadata for those music video (which should also work with the movie agent) while keeping the option to organize/access them by artists etc. – that seems to overlap with what you’re suggesting in this thread. Hence I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes.

Standalone Music Video section (without dependence on music files!)

Problem: Currently, Music Videos can be stored in a global music videos folder. They then display neatly formatted on the page of each music artist in a Music section. This is great. But as a consequence you have to have music for each artist in order to see any of their videos, in this nice format. Feature request: Option 1) Add the ability to have a standalone Music Video section, with neatly formatted videos. If a standalone Music Video section is not possible, then here is a fallback r…

Unless I miss some unique aspect of your suggestion, I suggest we close it as a duplicate in favor of that other thread.

[motefuzz]

@motefuzz

Hello there!
Been messing with Plex for several years now. I have been carting around a gigantic music video collection since the early 2000s (there are 4000+ items in it) and after jumping around to many programs over the years (XMBC, Servio etc) Plex is going to be my forever home. I have the dedicated global Music Videos folder set up so my Music library reacts to it. I’ve also started a dedicated Music Video library (MOVIES library type, Plex Movie agent) for them so I can have metadata in them and sort by director and make collections (TV appearances by specific talk or award show performances, Themed, subgenres). THIS RIGHT HERE is the feature I’ve been searching for my entire life. I just wanted a program I could spit a bunch of Puff Daddy (or whoever!) videos into, and using the IMDB I could sort them by director and see which ones Paul Hunter or Hype Williams or Spike Jonze did. That’s an incredible new reality that I’m just getting with Plex. (XMBC did it, but so much lead time had to go into research and prepping NFO files)

One snafu with all this that’s preventing me from living in a utopia: Opening up all these crazy titles to IMDB via the Plex Movies agent brings back a lot of garbage results, that aren’t smartly filtered. If I accidentally hit a button, or change an agent on a whim half of my library will (after 6 hours) match to a Korean romantic comedy from 2005.

Here is what I suggest: Rather than making a dedicated Music Video subcategory in Libraries, why not just have a dedicated music video agent. All you would really have to do here on a logical level is filter down the IMDB or Movie Database results to Shorts or anything below 10 minutes maybe. Maybe limit the results to one language, maybe have some way to filter the results by decade to the range of time the artist appears active in the music side of the database, who knows.

In any event, I love what’s going on here, and I’m so close to getting it. I would just love some sort of feeling of security.

Before anyone asks “why is this necessary they are all on YouTube??” I would think deeply a moment about who exactly uploads these files to YouTube and if you should be putting all your eggs in one company’s basket.

thanks will do!