Do you have multiple TV Libraries? like do you have 1 library for Cartoons and another for really old tv shows or another for non cartoons? The reason I ask is because sometimes if you’re bored and looking for a tv show to watch a library inflated with cartoons makes going title by title almost impossible if you’re not in the mood for cartoons/anime.
I have around 800 shows = 30,000 episodes.
I have 3 folders
TV shows - basically current and recent
Old TV Shows - finished shows
Other TV - documentaries, sport, car shows, Nat Geo, etc.
@spikemixture said:
I have around 800 shows = 30,000 episodes.
I have 3 folders
TV shows - basically current and recent
Old TV Shows - finished shows
Other TV - documentaries, sport, car shows, Nat Geo, etc.
So just to be clear, by 3 folders you’re saying you have 3 different TV Show libraries on your plex server right?
Actually no.
This is how mine looks.
1.TV Shows - TV shows and TV old
2. Other TV - Other TV shows
3. Movies - Movies
4. Music video - Music Videos
5. Music - Music
6. Home Movies - Home Movies.
The numbers are so I can have the order I want.
I’ve got about 160 shows and just over 5000 episodes, all in a library called TV Shows. I have another Library called DVR which has stuff I’ve recorded (~10 shows and 200 episodes) using the DVR Beta running separately to my main PMS. I suspect I’ll keep this even when everything comes together in the public release.
Looks like this in PlexPy 
@adrianwi said:
I’ve got about 160 shows and just over 5000 episodes, all in a library called TV Shows. I have another Library called DVR which has stuff I’ve recorded (~10 shows and 200 episodes) using the DVR Beta running separately to my main PMS. I suspect I’ll keep this even when everything comes together in the public release.Looks like this in PlexPy
wow thats cool looking. can you only view stats like this on the beta dvr version? if not where is it on the normal one?
@spikemixture said:
Actually no.
This is how mine looks.1.TV Shows - TV shows and TV old
2. Other TV - Other TV shows
3. Movies - Movies
4. Music video - Music Videos
5. Music - Music
6. Home Movies - Home Movies.The numbers are so I can have the order I want.
ok so you even though you say TV shows and TV old they are all combined in the one TV Shows library right? would you mind sending me a screenshot of how it looks for you? I am kinda not smart. When I see stuff thats confusing me in picture form I’ll get it though.
When you make a library it asks you for a path to the media. What you can do to include 2 folders of media, is have the 2 paths set up for that library.
For instance:
/Media/TV Shows - Current
/Media/TV Shows - done
Point your TV Shows library to each of these folders and they all get dropped into the same library. The user doesn’t see that there are two different folders, but the admin knows things still airing are in the “current” folder. Shows that are dropped or end of runs get put into the “done” folder. (Or when you have all of the episodes for a given show, etc.)
When you start getting a big library and don’t want to be looking for episodes that you already have, this is one way to reduce the impact on some systems.
I have it split into “TV Shows” for current shows we are watching or planning to watch, and “TV Archive” for shows we are done with / have ended / might not end up watching
I have two folder for TV shows one contains TV shows that have ceased to be aired (Inactive TV) and the contains TV shows that are still being aired that I am either recording or buying.
Inactive TV contains all my older TV shows from “7 Days” to “Wonder Woman” while Active TV contains shows from “The 100” to “Zoo.” When an active TV show gets canceled I simply move it from Active to Inactive. Plex handles this fine and even, usually, retains the “watched” status on the move.This is probably not the most efficient or simplest setup but it is what works for me and in total I have about 470 TV shows most are complete but some, like “The Avengers” from the 60s are missing a few episodes and a few like “Burke’s Law” or “Longstreet” only have a very few episodes at all.
I use Sonnar to import the shows into the active TV directory by simply copying the raw files after recording into the directory that Sonnar monitors.
However I link both folders into one TV library so I can browse without worrying about where anything is.
This is the easiest setup for my TV I could come up with.
I tried multiple libraries for TV separating by genre or active/inactive or several other separations but nothing seemed to make finding and browsing easier than the system I am using.
@RayDominguez said:
@adrianwi said:
I’ve got about 160 shows and just over 5000 episodes, all in a library called TV Shows. I have another Library called DVR which has stuff I’ve recorded (~10 shows and 200 episodes) using the DVR Beta running separately to my main PMS. I suspect I’ll keep this even when everything comes together in the public release.Looks like this in PlexPy
wow thats cool looking. can you only view stats like this on the beta dvr version? if not where is it on the normal one?
That is a screenshot of PlexPy.
Plex itself doesn’t provide any statistics whatsoever
What’s Sonnar? A DVD ripper?
You used to be able to change the menu icons on the plex server itself using sqlite in firefox… Plex stripped that out many moons ago… I loved the customization at the time… made it very unique.
Not no more!
So, for me it’s essentially 2 TV libraries. TV Shows and Saturday Morning Cartoons. Even though the Flintstones, for example, originally aired in prime time, it still goes in the Saturday Morning library.
I also have a third TV library for movie serials, but that’s only because they tend to match like a TV show.
@brucethevideobug said:
What’s Sonnar? A DVD ripper?
Oops, I mistyped the name it should be “Sonarr.” It is a program with multiple uses. Many use it for accessing and downloading TV shows in conjunction with a bittorrent client from “questionable” sites. I use it to rename and structure my recorded TV shows since none of my hardware is even close to compatible with Plex’s DVR functionality.
All I have to do is copy the recorded shows to a directory that Sonarr is monitoring and Sonarr automagically renames and moves the recording into my TV library in its correct directory. It just is a labor saving tool for me.
So this is useful, even if you just record of the air?
@brucethevideobug said:
So this is useful, even if you just record of the air?
Most defiantly. Sonarr is one of the most useful tools I use. I could use FileBot in much the same way but, for me for TV, Sonarr is just a lot easier too use once set up.
https://sonarr.tv/
I have multiple TV Libraries:
TV-Cartoons
TV-Current (Still doing New Seasons)
TV-Educational (Science / History related TV Series)
TV-Oldies (Concluded programs. I typically toss cancelled programs)
TV-Justin
The “Justin” library is a temporary holding library which I use for TV shows that are in-season. Episodes are placed in here initially (and simultaneously into “Current”, until deleted/replaced by the next episode. It’s quick access to the newest shows for me. This library is set to NOT be included in the dashboard - preventing duplicate entries.
Almost 200 shows in a few libraries:
Animated
Documentaries
Mini series
SciFi
The rest
Reason we divided it that way is we have very different tastes and this almost changes it into a “his”, “hers” and “together” with very little overlap.
@grandpacarp said:
I have multiple TV Libraries:
TV-Cartoons
TV-Current (Still doing New Seasons)
TV-Educational (Science / History related TV Series)
TV-Oldies (Concluded programs. I typically toss cancelled programs)
TV-JustinThe “Justin” library is a temporary holding library which I use for TV shows that are in-season. Episodes are placed in here initially (and simultaneously into “Current”, until deleted/replaced by the next episode. It’s quick access to the newest shows for me. This library is set to NOT be included in the dashboard - preventing duplicate entries.
did you do the same thing for Movies? I’m not into anime really, only like the super big ones like howls moving castle etc but between pokemon movies and Disney, dreamworks etc it feels like I’ve got thousands of animated movies that feel cloggy in the movies.
