Just thought I’d mention how I handle storing music videos in Plex. Note: I am talking about collecting individual 3-4min music video clips (not long concerts and such). This is just the easiest way I found to organize hundreds of small music video clips, for which we currently have no metadata (and from the sounds of it, may never have, because none exists)…
Section setup…
Section: “Music Videos”.
Scanner: “Plex Movie Scanner”
Agent: “Personal Media”
I name each video file “artistname - song.xxx”. The above scanner and agent generally don’t rename the files, which is why I use them.
On my network drive, I have a main folder called “Music Videos”, and a subfolder for each artist name, e.g. “/Music Videos/Nicki Minaj/”
When I add a new file and Plex detects it, I assign it to a collection of “artistname”, e.g. “Nicki Minaj”.
If it’s a song by multiple artists (e.g. “Bob Dylan ft. Nicki Minaj” hehe), then that clip would get assigned to both the “Bob Dylan” collection and the “Nicki Minaj” collection, obviously.
Now just browse “by collection”.
I only wish Plex had the ability to custom decorate a collection as I described here, as this would allow you to create a nice little home screen of your own, for each artist’s collection. If we had that, I’d be pretty satisfied for the long term (even though full metadata for music videos would be great).
Well, as I mentioned in the first post here, there is a perfectly fine repository for music video metadata at Freebase, which I am sure would get used if there was a metadata agent for it. Unfortunately, it seems to be a chicken and egg situation...
I've noticed that there is a lot of demand for this type of service -- both on here and on other sites/forums.
I run mvdbase (the music video database, mentioned earlier in the thread) which I've started updating on a more regular basis again since the beginning of the year.
Now I might be willing to help out with this (likely under some conditions) but, to be honest, I am not entirely sure what this is about as I've never used Plex or anything like it.
So what exactly is an "MD agent"? I'm guessing we're talking some sort of scraper/wrapper/API. I've read a bit about those, but still not entirely clear what you would need on your end (on the technical front) to have this work.
On a side note, and to be totally transparent, I'm hoping I can offer this type of service for free but I *might* have to ask for a (hopefully small) fee. It will really depend on a number of factors, including how much work it will require to implement, how taxing it will be on the server, etc.
In any case, I'm open to discussion. I'll try to keep an eye on this site, but I'm not very good with forums, so feel free to send me an email (you can find my address on mvdbase, you can get to it through the FAQ page).
I'm a web applications developer ... I'd donate some time to help adapt whatever existing database technologies exist into something more Plex friendly.
I only have a couple hundred videos, but I'd be willing to do a couple a day to help populate.
Would love this. Sidenote: having music agents get the data would only be good as a temporary solution. Music videos have directors (sometimes interesting people like Weird Al direct music videos other than his own), cameos, and other data, and people like me would like to have that info scraped as well. Another Sidenote: subscene.com has some subtitles files for music videos available, so you can have your lyrics show too...
Just wanted to check on this. See if there had been any movement on the ability to do this on the windows server and the Metadata agent. As i have a lot of Music Videos as well I would love to be able to have a library for.
Can anyone answer this? It doesn’t make sense to me to create a whole new DB for MV when there’s already structure in place for MP3s, especially since they use many of the same fields (Artist, Album, Year, Track, etc).
@rtm135 said:
I never understood why the music agents applied to MP3 (music) files can’t be equally applied to MP4 (music video) files. The data is basically the same and the MP4 container is very flexible when it comes to metadata. The audio could be analyzed for ID purposes.
