I like many others have workout videos that have to arranged by folder, but this isn’t the only case , home videos of kids, activities, sports, animals. Many uses where categorizing by folder is really the only way to organize by folder. Right now the screen is blank on half the page while the list of folders is on the other half. its not very cohesive. The movie page and tv pages have a great layout, but goto your personal video pages, looks like meh, whatever.
Is there something us general folk are missing that it cant be done? Wouldn’t it look awesome if for each folder could have its custom folder picture as we scroll through?
Folder view is not something Plex really focuses on. It’s sort of a if you really want it, here it is. If there is something broken, it will be looked at, but improvements are unlikely.
The Home videos category was not very useful since you couldn’t group things together. That really was meant for just throwing videos in. If you want something organized, I would suggest using the Photo library, which now allows you to add videos as well. You cannot add metadata to the videos like you can with a video library, but you can organize them by Albums and have a nice image for that album.
This question keeps coming up over and over again. None of the convoluted workarounds within the limited feature set of Plex actually meet users needs for this common request and always fall short on critical features/usability/compromises. It’d be nice if Plex actually addressed the issue instead of suggesting people use a screwdriver as a hammer.
@sremick said:
… It’d be nice if Plex actually addressed the issue instead of suggesting people use a screwdriver as a hammer.
This is actually funny! I received some pretty heavy new blackout curtains to help darken my viewing room by better covering a large southern facing window. I had to wait to hang them for a few days until my bad hip felt good enough to go up and down a step ladder a few times. I had placed the needed hardware and was in the process of the final stage of the hanging when one mount came off the wall.
I was on the top step of the ladder and all I had with me in the way of tools was my screwdriver. (The hammer was peacefully reclining on a table across the room. I needed a hammer to reseat the mount so I just reversed the screwdriver and used it like a hammer and it actually worked fine.
Sometimes tools are effectively dual purpose without being intentionally so. The same with Plex. The workarounds are far from ideal and do not work even nearly as well as the “correct” tool would BUT at least there often is a workaround.
However, in this case, there really is not a workaround as there is no way to place artwork on a folder in the folder view.
That really is Plex’s “modus operandi.” That is if it does not fit Plex’s grand plan then Plex will NEVER implement it.
I have proven Plex has NO intention of listening to is faithful users!!!
I created 2 posts asking for advice as to an alternative to plex, since Plex is not advancing the basic core functionality of it’s flagship product.
I posted it here and in the general forum asking this question letting the folks know in the Genral forum that Plex has no intention of maturing the core product by adding features that make sense.
Also making the General users aware that those of us Plex Pass members have been requesting features for over 3 years in many cases and never get addressed.
they DELETED COMPLETELY both posts!!!
What’s up with that?
What does that tell US??
Our opinions are completely meaningless to them!!!
They are working on neat features but ignoring the core functionality and the discounting the needs of the actual user base.
I bet if I made a request to bounce my media off of TelStar… It would already be in development!!! (Albeit in Beta forever and still full of bugs)
Soooo SAD!
I now understand what @JuiceWSA meant by saying being a plex pass member is having the benefit of paying to be ignored by plex at the highest level.
Also if the general public knew how Plex considers it uses by being able to at least read plex pass posts, they would have many more meaningful opinions and the Skeleton would be out of the closet.
LOL
Has anyone noticed that rather lengthy thread regarding finally understanding Plex’s plan (Can’t remember the title but even @elan was participating) has also vanished!!!
Oh yeah… in answer to the original post… Most Likely NEVER!
@jjrjr1 said:
I now understand what @JuiceWSA meant by saying being a plex pass member is having the benefit of paying to be ignored by plex at the highest level.
It was actually @Elijah_Baley that said with more eloquence what I paraphrased - but yea.
Hmmmm
Interesting.
Thanks for the heads up.
I looked and could not find them…
Could be a Vanilla Forums Bug as I looked for them in My Discussions… Nowhere to be found that way.
My Bad!
Thanks for taking the time to reply to me.
Hope we can generate some interest from Plex into the real quandary here.
I love plex… But feel they are gonna get left in the dust if they are not careful and start focusing on core functionality.
Looking through the feature requests section I found that the most popular one appears to be this https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/126133/request-posters-for-folder-view with 33 votes. I understand that folder view is used by some and that having an image instead of the default icon would be nice, but in terms of feature requests, 33 votes is not going to give it much of a priority.
True, but the votes do help judge how many people may benefit from the request to help prioritize where dev time should be spent.
May I ask why you prefer to use folder view instead of the regular Plex views? A better request might be to get the other Plex views to do what you want with folder view.
Not all folks use the plex app.
Some use DLNA in which case folder images would be nice.
I use folder view on occasion since some of my media folders get ignored by the plex scan and the only way to get to them is by folder view… Specifically for me two such folders are my collection of Old Time Radio shows ripped from a large collection of cassette tapes and a large folder of MIDI QRS Player Piano Rolls in my Music Library.
Plex just ignores those folders in its media scan… LOL
@MovieFan.Plex said:
Looking through the feature requests section I found that the most popular one appears to be this https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/126133/request-posters-for-folder-view with 33 votes. I understand that folder view is used by some and that having an image instead of the default icon would be nice, but in terms of feature requests, 33 votes is not going to give it much of a priority.
As many Pass members are learning, having 1000+ votes doesn’t give our Feature Requests much of a priority, either. And implying the vote count has any sway at all is misinformation. But it’s what a lot of Plex Pass members are expecting to see, lately.
If folder icons were added, I don’t know if they would make it over for DLNA. Have you seen other DLNA server’s that allow having a folder icon and the DLNA client will show it?
@jjrjr1 said: @anon18523487
Here is another place where you cannot change images…
Playlists also have ugly black squares if there is no art for the music…
This is another place we should be able to add poster or something…
Why not add a poster to the Album/Artist, then it will make it over to the playlist?
There is no way to add an image to these music albums or anything since Plex has not implemented the ability to change folder icons or the icons for tracks or album folders.
You see these playlists were created from the music folders that Plex will not scan as mentioned previously. (Can only access them if Folder View)
This is ridiculous that Plex does not care to clean up some of these oversights and bugs especially since it has been known as a problem or feature request for over 3 years.
Something doesn’t make sense to me. If you are able to see the files using folder view, then Plex must have put those songs somewhere, maybe under various artist. The folder view is not an actual OS level file view, but a representation of what Plex has in its database, so those songs must be somewhere in PMS under an artist and album.
