Music videos no longer recognized in Music?

Server Version#: 1.27.0.5889-7000
Player Version#: 1.46.1.3056-ab91bdc0
I’ve been trying to follow the instructions on this Help page:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/205568377-adding-local-artist-and-music-videos/
and despite my best effort, I can’t get Plex to show me any of the music videos if they live in a Music library.
If I move them to a Home Media library, everything is fine, but not in a Music one.
The Help page is from 2019 (although still up) so I was wondering whether the possibility had been dropped.

Still working on my end.

The only change I’m aware of is that the music video folder used to be a server-wide setting (Settings > [Server Name] > AgentsMusic) and has now been moved to Settings > [Server Name] > Extras > Global music videos path). It seems this is not yet reflected in the support article.

As with all extras, naming is key… how did you organize/name your music videos?

I tried to follow the guidelines.
It’s all like that:

Music
—>Artist - Album
—————>Title-video.mp4
—————>OtherTitle-video.mp4
—————>Yet anotherTitle-video.mp4
—>OtherArtist - OtherAlbum
—————>Title-video.mp4
—————>OtherTitle-video.mp4
—————>Yet anotherTitle-video.mp4

And I made sure to set the path to Music in the Global video path as you just mentioned (I hadn’t don’t that — but it didn’t make any difference unfortunately.

If it’s working for you, it implies that I must be missing something basic at some point somewhere, but I can’t figure out what :slight_smile:
I ran a test and added some music to the folder, and when I do that it’s detected, implying that it’s not messed-up from the ground up, but still…

You don’t need to set the global video path to your regular music library – that’s only needed if you store those music videos somewhere else.
Do you have regular music tracks in those album folders?

Think I got it :slight_smile:

I re-read the page and noticed this tip:
Tip! : Artist videos must be in a directory that contains at least one music track for the artist.

Obviously I had missed that :-> I added s song and the videos in the same folder all magically appeared!!
I’m glad it corrects the issue. I wonder why that rule is in place though. I don’t really see the point. I hope future versions of them PMS will lift this limit.
Thanks for your help!!

That was the issue indeed. I didn’t!

Corentin

Keep in mind, music videos are treated as “local extras” of an artist (stored alongside their albums).
They’re no standalone media (as far as your Plex Media Server sees them).

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IMDB is starting to include music videos descriptions. It may be worth looking to setting up a Music Video library and setting up the Global Folder option to have access to all videos to set up a music video playlist.

You can already add music videos to playlists.

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