Tipps: How I deal with media in "other videos"

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After testing around I found a halfway easy method to deal with movies without any metadata.

First I add them to a “home movies” library
I add a [tag] in front of the movies. They look like this:

  • /Media/other videos/[soccer] - Champion’s League - Chelsea vs. Real Madrid 2022-04-15/[soccer] - Champion’s League - Chelsea vs. Real Madrid 2022-04-15.mp4
  • /Media/other videos/[motorsport] - MotoGP - GP Austin 2022-10-04/[motorsport] - MotoGP - GP Austin 2022-10-04.mkv

After this I can create a smart collection with the rules
Title->contains->[tag]

Advantages:

  • Relatively easy way to group them together

  • Same tags are sorted to collections automatically

  • Survives the Plex Dance

  • Auto-play works

Disadvantages

  • tag in front of movie names isn’t that beautiful! :wink:

I wanted to share this tip, maybe this idea is helpful for someone.

Let’s give @BigWheel a small hint! :wink:

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Are you asking me to move this to Tips & Tricks forum category?

Why wouldn’t you just use Title >contains >MotoGP ? Are you going to add things like F1 to the same motorsport collection?

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Yes please (if you don’t mind) :slight_smile:

Are you going to add things like F1 to the same motorsport collection?

If I have only a couple of items I would add them to “motorsport” (in this specific case)
But if they are more motorsport races I could split them anytime by adding a new tag:

[MotoGP] - Race 1 - GP Andalusia.mp4
[Moto 2] - Race 1 - GP Andalusia.mp4
[SBK] - Race 1 - GP Le Mans.mp4

And after this I could just set a smart collection containing the track title (“GP Andalusia” In this case) or the “sport class” [Moto 2] or [SBK]

In my experience this worked more stable than adding files without any metadata to a tv show. Also they are (more or less) sorted and in my op a word between square brackets is better visible than a single (non-bracked) word.

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If that is the case, why not put the tag at the end of a video file? The filename could be:
Champion’s League - Chelsea vs. Real Madrid 2022-04-15 [soccer].mp4
The tag doesn’t need to be at the start of a filename in order for the smart collection to detect the file and add it.

In fact, you can include such multiple tags at the end of the file, allowing for a file to be in multiple categories at once.

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