# Only one question before diving deep into Plex **URL:** \ **Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\ **Tags:** library-management\ **Created:** [January 11, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/only-one-question-before-diving-deep-into-plex/901959 "2025-01-11T11:31:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leon\_648](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@leon\_648](https://forums.plex.tv/u/leon_648)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/only-one-question-before-diving-deep-into-plex/901959/1 "2025-01-11T11:31:32Z")
Hello, I am not familiar with Plex and only experimented a few times with it. It is a great piece of software but i can’t figure out just one thing (a deal breaker for me) : Is it realy not possible to add movies (easily) manually? I have a lot of movies who aren’t presented correctly. That is no problem as long as i can add/correct my own data like covers, years, physical filelocation etc. I know it is somehow possible but very very lengthy and not for all movie-data. The Plex GUI is (almost) perfect, user-friendliness is top, the suported formats are okay but i don’t find any option to add manually (in a normal way such as Synology DSVideo for example) a movie with my own data. Like i said, i am not familiar with Plex so i gues i’m searching in wrong places? Best regards, Léon ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/only-one-question-before-diving-deep-into-plex/901959/2 "2025-01-11T12:18:15Z")
[https://support.plex.tv/articles/200264746-quick-start-step-by-step-guides/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200264746-quick-start-step-by-step-guides/) [https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/categories/your-media/) [https://support.plex.tv/articles/201543057-why-is-some-of-my-content-not-found/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201543057-why-is-some-of-my-content-not-found/) > [@leon\_648](#): > > Is it realy not possible to add movies (easily) manually? I have a lot of movies who aren’t presented correctly. That is no problem as long as i can add/correct my own data like covers, years, physical filelocation etc. The above will help you to tip off Plex to fetch the correct metadata for your movies. If you don’t actually mean “movies” (i.e. stuff that you might see in a movie theater), but rather videos of your family, or instruction videos etc, then you want a library of the type “Other Videos”. ---
**Author:** ![leon\_648](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@leon\_648](https://forums.plex.tv/u/leon_648)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/only-one-question-before-diving-deep-into-plex/901959/3 "2025-01-11T12:59:03Z")
Thanks for the quick response 🙏, i already saw that option but i’m afraid that i must use about 50% of my media to set as “Other Videos” because of the formats (for example ISO) that are not recognized. (Normal DVD (Laurel and Hardy) and/or BR-rips also not recognized, some do and some don’t) And i use for example a folder “Music Video’s” and when a Music Video is not recognized i must add this in “Other Videos” so that is not the way to go i think. I will try if i can move the Music Video data afterwards to the correct folder. 🙏 Further is see there are naming recommendations i was not aware of, i thought (wrong) that Plex would search within the file itself. So for example 123.mkv is not recognized as een Queen music Video, i must name the file Queen.mkv? ---
**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/only-one-question-before-diving-deep-into-plex/901959/4 "2025-01-11T13:02:34Z")
> [@leon\_648](#): > > because of the formats (for example ISO) that are not recognized. Even an Other Videos library won’t help with those. ISO containers and DVD/Bluray folder structures are not supported in Plex. [https://support.plex.tv/articles/201426506-why-are-iso-video-ts-and-other-disk-image-formats-not-supported/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201426506-why-are-iso-video-ts-and-other-disk-image-formats-not-supported/) There is no library type for Music Videos. These can only go into an Other Videos library. Or with higher effort into a series library which has been set to “personal media”. ---
**Author:** ![leon\_648](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@leon\_648](https://forums.plex.tv/u/leon_648)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/only-one-question-before-diving-deep-into-plex/901959/5 "2025-01-11T13:14:10Z")
I use indeed personal media for the music video’s, sorry. The support (not) of ISO i was aware of. That’s a shame because a lot of programms who are not as good looking as Plex are much easier to add user data and support a lot more formats. Thanks again for the quick respons. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/only-one-question-before-diving-deep-into-plex/901959/6 "2025-04-11T13:14:38Z")
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