I use plex mostly for music videos ripped from DVDs. About half are a single live concert with one main title that works as a movie or video. The other half range from multi-disc sets for a festival - like Clapton’s Crossroads sets where many artists are involved to discs like The Beatles One where each song is it;'s own file. I’d prefer not to have things separated into different libraries - I don’t want to remember how files are stored somewhere when I start browsing for something to play. How would I get something from my own server to look like this: https://watch.plex.tv/show/the-beatles-1
For concerts and surround sound editions of albums, I usually do this:
I have the Beatles 1+ as well and simply concatenated all the music videos into one contiguous file. On each song boundary I created a chapter mark (can be done automatically during the concatenation process) and labeled it with the song’s title. This allows you to jump to a specific song.
All the “commentary” videos are added as local extras, just like the above.
That is organizing the videos as “special” episodes of a TV show.
You could do that in Plex – however, in Plex there is no way to combine “movies”-type and “tv show”-type of items into one and the same library. So these would always be kinda “remote” from the other videos on your server.
(Though manually created collections can create a connection between libraries. I see this on the preplay page of Beatles 1+, because I added other videos and the AlbumArtist The Beatles from my Audio library to the same.named collection:
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Thanks - what would you do with something like the 7 disc set of “The Midnight Special” where it was a TV series but the episodes on the discs are more or less random selections, not in order and not contiguous? Or the Rock and Roll Hall of fame performances where there is a 6 disc DVD set, and then Blu-rays that came in two year sets.
Your best course of action, IMHO, is to look for these discs on TheMovieDB.org.
If they are listed there already you could simply mirror their configuration (i.e. Movie vs. TV Show) and thus save yourself some work.
Thanks - I can see listings for The Midnight Special on both TVDB and TMDB but they don’t seem to have any mappings for discs to episodes, and even if they did, is it possible to represent out-of-order episodes on the media?
Plex has no concept of “tv shows on disc” releases.
All it knows is the original air date of an episode (if present on TVDB or TMDB) as well as its season/episode numbers.
If you can find an “Episode Ordering” called “DVD” or “Bluray” on TheTVDB, then you can use that.
But if you don’t, your best course of action is to
- split the ripped files into the originally aired episodes
- look up each episode’s season/episode numbers and name the files accordingly
They are basically musical performances so the airing sequence is pretty much irrelevant - it’s not like there is a plot to follow. Is there a way to get the 7 discs to show up as separate items and just use chapter support within each file for anything fine-grained?
You could add each disc as its own “movie”, and then use chapter markers within the files to mark the start of a new performance.
Then add all these movies into the same collection.
Or go the TV Show-route with each disc being its own episode. And all together forming a common show.
OK, the TV route putting each ripped disc in a folder with - s00e0n (where n was 1 to 7) in the name works. A little less messy than having all 7 show at the top level.
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