I have a 12TB video collection that includes mostly movies but some TV shows. I have already followed the recommendation to put Movies in one main folder and TV Shows in another. Now I am used to organizing all my content in folders, according to genre. (I dislike dumping everything into the top-level folder; it’s messy and half the time I can’t find the title I want.) The Plex Media Server has been able to find most movies no matter how far down they are in the folder tree, so long as I scrupulously name each one by title and release date. TV shows, not so much. The TV shows don’t match, because the “THETVDB” agent seems to be trying to match on the genre folder, not the show folder. And when I try to fix the match, if I have more than one TV show in a folder for a given genre, it will try to match all my files as one big TV show, which creates confusion. Does that mean I have to scrap my genre plan and place all TV shows at “top level” in the library?
I believe so that’s how my folders are setup. They aren’t organized by genre they just all sit in their own individual folder at the root of the library.
Every TV show must be a sub folder of a folder that you TV library points to BUT you can have multiple library roots and Plex will merge them all.
I have two “Active_TV” and “InActive_TV” and my TV library points at both of them. There are people that have a structure like:
TV Shows
---------#ABC
---------DEFG
---------HIJK
---------LMNO
--------PQRS
--------TUVW
--------XYZ
and appropriate TV shows are under each of those directories.
The library would then point at each directory.
I recommend that you follow Plex’s conventions exactly particularly for TV shows as any variance often causes Plex to fail to properly index the shows.
