@Pil71 said:
Can you confirm in the Agents settings you’ve selected “Artists” then for each sub section you have “Local Media Assets” ticked and moved to the top?
Yep, confirmed.
What Plex client you using ? If PHT are you using any custom skin? What ver of PMS?
I’m running Version 0.9.12.11, accessing them via Web clients. I don’t know what PHT means.
PHT= Plex Home Theater its a PC Client, just keep trouble shoot on Plex/Web since you need to refresh the artist. Which OS is your PMS installed on?
@coz2001 said:
PHT= Plex Home Theater its a PC Client, just keep trouble shoot on Plex/Web since you need to refresh the artist. Which OS is your PMS installed on?
It’s on Windows 10. (I only realized pretty far in to this conversation that we’re on the Mac board, since I found the discussion through a search. I hope that’s OK, or, if not, there’s a way to port this to the right place.)
ok now it’s getting tricky. not sure what else to try. any plex devs listening in here that can assist ?
@josephzitt Ok, I’m on mac myself, lets make sure the path is correct try to right click on your Fiona Apple folder and choose Properties then copy the path from the address bar and paste it, I couldn’t get it to work before I did this so give it a try and of course make sure your folders inside Global match the folders in your music folder.
Yeah good idea. My path is “e:\media\music\music video” for reference. I use a back slash at the end, can you try that, unlikely to be the cause but worth a try, use back slashes also not forward slashes. Obviously don’t include the quotation marks in your actual path.
screenshots would be good to see also, just in case.
Other things to check/try :
- On the Artist page in Plex Web ensure you are hitting refresh button on the left of screen not “Update Library” at top right.
- Ensure the existing artist has a correct match. ie on the artist page are you seeing all the relevant metadata indicating it’s already matched and downloaded metadata. Possibly try “Fix Incorrect Match” to force a rematch
- Yes, confirmed as well. Agents are set right, and Local Media Assets is set right. No dice.
- Adding “-video” isn’t necessary, as an un-addended media name defaults to the -video file type.
- Yes, based on the instructions we can create a separate section/library. The suggested media naming scheme makes that plain.
At this point enough of us are struggling that we need a Smart Plex Guru to help. Thanks.
I only want to add to this discussion that I followed the instructions to set up a “global” music videos folder. After refreshing the individual artist the music videos show up. I am not saying that this is an elegant procedure, but it works in my case.
I am running on a Linux/NAS system (BananaPi) version 0.9.12.11.
I heard this works, but our music video libraries are empty. Nothing to click to refresh. I’m going to play with directory/path naming.
@Pil71, what artist page?
@Kabeyun said:
I heard this works, but our music video libraries are empty. Nothing to click to refresh. I’m going to play with directory/path naming.Pil71, what artist page?
I think what Pil71 and I want to says is: You have to go into your music library, select an artist, and click on the page with the music of that artist on the “refresh” symbol. That is the clockwise pointing arrow in the left panel.
I don’t have a music library to click on or to refresh artist in, nor do I want one. I don’t use Plex for music.
Plex’s instructions on how to set up music videos describe two distinct methods. One is “in-line” videos, where you avail yourself of your music library (which won’t work for those of us who don’t have one) and the other is to set up a global videos folder.
What I and others want is to set up a repository for our music videos to sit alongside a repository for movies, TV shows, etc. Plex’s instructions say we can do this, but we can’t get it working.
Does that clear it up?
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Yes! But this is not going to work and does imho not make sense.
The whole point of the global music video folder is, that they are stored at a central location, but they get mapped to artist/media pages in the music section. Having a global music video folder alone will not create a library in plex on its own. The music library has to be there first, then the video get mapped to the artists.
I am afraid you will need to create a music library with at least one song per artist before the global music video folder has any effect.
I am not sure that the instruction actually say what your seem to read. The repository (=dat storage) is alongside, but there is no option to have a music video library styled like a music library (i.e. with metadata etc.) alongside movies, TV shows etc.section.
Kabeyun - forget the instructions from plex completely. Just create a new movie library and point it at your music video folder. Done. The metadata and artwork is a bit hit and miss but that can fixed with some effort.
@coz2001 said:
josephzitt Ok, I’m on mac myself, lets make sure the path is correct try to right click on your Fiona Apple folder and choose Properties then copy the path from the address bar and paste it, I couldn’t get it to work before I did this so give it a try and of course make sure your folders inside Global match the folders in your music folder.
AHA! There’s the problem – obvious in retrospect.
While my music library is sorted in the iTunes-enforced way of “Firstname Lastname,” I had set up my music videos in the way that any other source of information is done, by “Lastname, Firstname.” (It used to drive me nuts when people would look for records in my store under first name, when anyone literate knew that they would be organized by last name. I’ve also seen people stumped by this in bookstores and telephone directories.) So the music library’s “Fiona Apple” didn’t match the music video library’s “Apple, Fiona”.
Looks like I’ll have to reorganize my music video library to fit Apple’s boneheaded structure. I would love to reorganize the music library, but since it has 2953 artists as opposed to a mere 139 in the music video folder, it makes more sense to do it that way.
Interestingly, another test case showed no problem once I put a dummy mp3 in the artist’s music video folder. But it had only a one-word name, “2Cellos”, which meant that Apple’s naming scheme didn’t have a chance to mess with it.
Thanks for everyone’s help!
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@Pil71, I did this and got an empty new movie library. I picked the Plex Video Files scanner and the Personal Media agent. At Settings>Server>Agents>Artists & Albums, made sure Local Media Assetswas checked, at the top, and pointing to the exact same path as the music video folder (containing artist subfolders) in just used to create the new library. I even tried, as some have suggested, dropping in each artist’s folder an MP3 of theirs in an effort to tie video to audio content. Zip. If you did something different to get this to work, please share.
@eckarth, I think I get what you’re saying, which is that Plex can’t set up a library from which I can watch my freestanding music video collection as it can with my movies & TV shows. If true, that’s a pity and seems like a glaring oversight. At your advice, I’m setting up a (redundant, since I don’t use Plex for music) Music library. Once it’s done scanning my 20,000 songs, what next specifically? I only have maybe a couple hundred videos so I really hope the solution doesn’t involve me browsing through my 20,000 song music library to find the ones I want to watch.
Thanks all!
@josephzitt, glad you got it working.
