Plex Player currently displays your libraries based on your folders. I have a large library of Movies and TV Shows. To make it easier to access I have sorted them into folders (eg. Science Fiction, Action, etc) It is a little problematic when you are not sure which genre to store your media in where…

[image] nice1stu: Plex Player currently displays your libraries based on your folders. No, it doesn’t. It only does that on your server, because you have created a separate library for each of your “genre” subfolders. It would be more practical, if you add each of those genre subfolders to …

If I have all my movies in one folder, how can I have the side menu show different genres? When I try to add a library, it only allows me to add by folder, which means if all my movies are in one folder, it would display all my movies. The only way to view by genre (or some other category) would be…

[image] nice1stu: If I have all my movies in one folder, Please don’t use “folder” as term for libraries. It will only confuse things. [image] nice1stu: how can I have the side menu show different genres? You can’t. As I mentioned above, there is a special library view mode called “C…

Is this what you are referring to regarding category view. Is this not the same as if I used the filters. I am thinking more along the lines of having like the categories on the side menu, and when i select that category (or Tag) it would display recommended, recently added, etc like it does for the…

Oh ! Do you mean having one library, adding it multiple times and in the filter setting it to the different genres (Tags) for each one? [Plex05]

I think I understand. I can have all movies in one folder (eg. Musicals) but can set up each library to be filtered by some tag (eg. Music, Musical) so it shows only the content with that tag (eg. Music.) [Plex06] However it seems to only work in the Library top menu. If you go to “Recommended” I…

[image] nice1stu: Is this not the same as if I used the filters. It is. But it is easier to access, than to fumble with the filters. And if you add all your genre folders to the same library, you will get all movies at once which has a certain genre applied.

Plex Player Display Libraries based on Genres instead of Folders

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Plex Player Display Libraries based on Genres instead of Folders

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