@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-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.
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.
No. All movies are dumped into the same library. There was a time when I had a separate “animated movie” library. However, since I take advantage of maintaining Genre’s and Collections for the movies, I found that dividing up movies wasn’t needed for me.
I just read back a bit and thought I’d add a little more information. Collections is a wonderful tool. Any movie-series (star wars, rocky, etc) is in the Collections list. But I also have collections such as “Wife” and “Disney”. I put a “period” as the first character of name which places them at the top of the Collections Listing.
I don’t have anything near hundred thousand tv shows but have over 21K episodes. I use one TV Library. However from an admin point of view i have these in two separate paths with these two paths added to my Plex TV Shows library.
I have:
/TV Shows/Ended
/TV Shows/Ongoing
Just as the names imply “Ended” are no longer broadcast while Ongoing are still broadcasting new episodes. I find this easier to manage for new episodes of Ongoing since I don’t need to look at shows that are already complete.
However, from a client or user standpoing they just see all shows listed under one TV Shows library.
I have the year in the library/show folder such as “2 Broke Girls (2011)” but then use this format for naming:
“2 Broke Girls - S03E24 - And the First Degree.mp4” <-- Rip that wasn’t recorded by any type of DVR
“2 Broke Girls (2011) - S03E01 - And the Soft Opening.mp4” <-- DVR rips
Plex DVR will name episode and includes the year in the name. Anything recorded on TV will usually have the network icon or commercials cut or have other advertisement throughout the show. This allows me to DVR shows but after the BlueRay/DVD is releases I can replace them. The year in the title makes it easy to track which files are which. It was that or have a DVR only library but I prefer to have all episodes in one folder/season and the naming differences make it easy for me to differentiate.
I have a few TV shows and currently have them split into 4 sections (going to combine 2 later on - I hope).
TV (Kids): All my kids shows/cartoons.
TV (Classic): TV shows that aired pre 2000.
TV (Finished): Shows that aired between 2000 & 2010 (going to eventually combine this with Classic).
TV: Main TV show section.
