Which type of librari i have to chose when importing my files

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Hi there
When i want to import my files into diferent libraries, which librari type do i have to choise. What are the diferences between the types. Photo and music are clear but when do i chose Film, TV serie or diferent movies. What are the consequenses?
Thx in advance

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The “Other Videos” type is for anything that isn’t an officially released movie, and you would would maybe use this type of library for workout videos, training, tutorial videos, etc.

TV Shows is anything episodic, where there are multiple episodes for the same show.

Movies is for anything that isn’t a TV show that has an official release (something you can find on IMDb, The Movie Database, etc.).

You should not place TV shows into Movie libraries and vice versa, it’s highly likely these file won’t show up at all or if they do they may get matched poorly.

You can start with some of these support documents if you’re unsure how to proceed:

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The exception is of course when moves are listed as Extras for a TV show (very typical for anime shows) :slight_smile:

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Ill repost an old but good comment:

So in Plex’s mindset there are 3 types of videos (2 using online databases, and personal Media not in a public databases)

  1. Movies: Any single self-contained video (whether it’s a TV movie, TV Single Documentary, Movies released either in theaters, direct to disk, or VOD) Because there is some overlap some movies are both TV show special Episodes, and Standalone movies depending on where you want to put them.
  2. TV shows: These are a collection of multiple related videos (Could be a documentary series on the discovery channel, Daily episodes of the Tonight’s Show, or a regular TV series like Lost, or Star Trek)
  3. Personal Media - Plex completely ignores these unless they have local embedded metadata.

For Library types 1 & 2 Plex combines several data sources to populate posters, descriptions and other metadata.

Hope that helps clear things up.

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Great thx… That clear for me.

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