Music Videos don't show up in Music library

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Server Version#: 1.22.0.4163
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Hy, I’m moving my music collection over to plex and wanted to add some music videos and followed this guide: Adding Local Artist and Music Videos. Now I tried adding them to the artist folder directly, but they didn’t show up, so I made a separate musicvideo directory in my Music directory. I rescanned my library, refreshed metadat and still it doens’t show up. Then I tried the tips that were mentioned here: Musicvideos not appearing in music library. Still not showing up. What did I do wrong, or what can I do to make them show up.

(The path I put in MusicVideo path was the pah on the server and not the path you get in windows so that shouldn’t be a problem. The path of my test music video is the following: “1MusicVideos\Annenmaykantereit\Can’t Get You out of My Head (Cover) by AnnenMayKantereit x Parcels-video.mkv”, so that should also be correct.)

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That doesn’t look wrong on first sight…
I take it you have albums of AnnenMayKantereit in your library?
From what I remember, Plex can be a bit picky about the Local music video path… in your case also make sure that folder is also properly mounted and visible inside your container! Usually I’d expect that path to use / instead of \ as path separator.

Examples from my own library:

Local music video path:

Local music video path pointing at /plexmedialibrary/video/music-clips

plexmedialibrary
  video
    music-clips
      Foo Fighters
        Lollapalooza Berlin 2017-concert.mkv

Inline music videos

Music library pointing at /plexmedialibrary/music

plexmedialibrary
  music
    Foo Fighters - One By One   <- named as proposed by Plex
      All My Life-video.mkv
      Walking the Line-video.mkv

    Norah Jones   <- "iTunes style" naming (also recognized by Plex, which doesn't mean that might not change at some point)
      Come Away with Me
        Don't Know Why.m4v
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The seperators are because I copied it from windows, but the linux path is with /. New to linux: what does

properly mounted and visible inside your container

mean exactly? I use openmediavault with docker and the drives are mounted. My whole library is in a shared folder and also shared via SMB.
Btw, if I don’t use a separate musicvideo folder, can I put it just in an artist folder, or does it need to be in album folder?

Plex
  Music
     Annenmaykantereit
         musicvideo-video.mkv

or does it need to be like this:

Plex
  Music
     Annenmaykantereit
         2018 - Schlagschatten
            musicvideo-video.mkv
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I suppose that’s because the official naming schema of Plex does not deal with an artist folder level.
e.g.

Music   <- the folder linked to your music library
  AnnenMayKantereit - 12
    ...
  AnnenMayKantereit - Schlagschatten
    ...
  Foo Fighters - One By One
    ...
  ...
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And what to do with musicvideos that don’t belong whit an album? In this case Annenmaykantereit has a lot of cover songs that aren’t ‘officially’ released, only as a video?

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You can either put those in the path configured in local music video path or assign them to an album anyway. Independent of that, the videos will be displayed as Extras on the artist home page.

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