I have installed PMS on a raspberry pi 3 B+ and wanted to know how to organize following.
I have a music collection ´for every year.
The album are called “ChartsOfTheYear 2015”, “ChartsOfTheYear 2016”, “ChartsOfTheYear 2017” and so on. In every album are 100 songs of various artists.
What would be the best structure for plex media server?
/Media
/Movies
movie content
/Music
/ChartsOfTheYear 2015
01 - Ed Sheeran - Photograph.mp3
02 - Kygo - stole the show.mp3
/ChartsOfTheYear 2016
01 - Michael Jackson - Thriller.mp3
02 - Kygo - I see fire.mp3
/TV Shows
television content
And what would be better when there are more than 99 music files
I’ll try, but no guarantee it will work, or actually be the best solution.
I have a lot of compilation albums, and I struggled a lot when the new Plex Music system was introduced.
All of my music has embedded tags for artist, album artist, title, album title, etc. and I have “Prefer Local Metadata” enabled. I can’t say if this will work if you are relying completely on the file structure.
File structure is VERY important, and if you don’t follow the suggestions that Plex gives (they are actually rules) it probably won’t work.
You will need to have an Artist folder for your compilations. I suggest you use “Various Artists” as the artist.
Each Album will need a sub-folder named with the Album Title. The tracks for that album go into that subfolder.
/Music
/Various Artists
/Charts of the Year 2015
01 - Ed Sheeran - Photograph.mp3
02 - Kygo - Stole the Show.mp3
In theory, that is supposed to work. At one time, there was a problem if there was more than 50 files in a folder, and results were not reliable. I don’t know if that bug has been fixed.
To avoid the “bug,” I have worked around that by dividing the tracks up, and adding a “Disc #” folder. That may answer your question about the track numbering.
An Album with more than 50 tracks would be like this:
/Music
/Various Artists
/Charts of the Year 2015
/Disc 1
01 - Ed Sheeran - Photograph.mp3
02 - Kygo - Stole the Show.mp3
/Disc 2
01 - Artist Name - Track Title.mp3
02 - Artist Name - Track Title.mp3
I think most people just use the (standard?) method of capitalization used everywhere for titles - on books, albums, movies, names, etc. And that’s a mixture of lower and upper case letters, Sort of like the example I gave. I don’t know if it would matter if you used all lower case, or all upper case, but I personally wouldn’t. Just for the appearance, if nothing else. I would find it easier to read when looking at file names.
Put the music files and folders in a directory that’s dedicated to only music files. (example: “Music”) Don’t mix movies, TV shows and other media. Each type of media needs it’s own directory - A TV shows directory, a movies directory, and so on.
I see it’s linux, so the folders and files would have to have the right permissions for Plex to read. Been years since I used that OS, but there’s quite a few post regarding that problem here, and Google can always be a good friend for little problems like that.
OK. the clear structure does matter and not if upper or lower case. Thank you.
my structure is now
home/pi/Media
/Movies
/The Imitation Game (2014)
The Imitation Game (2014).mkv
/Music
/Various Artists
/Charts of the Year 2010
001 - Israel KamakawiwO'Ole - Over The Rainbow.mp3
...
100 - Xavier Naidoo - Alles Kann Besser Werden.mp3
/Charts of the Year 2013
/TV Shows
/The Good Doctor
/Season 3
The Good Doctor - s03e01.mkv
