Organizing files for Plex

part deux · Post by **part deux** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 12:13 am

I currently have media files set up as follows
Multimedia\Video\multiple sub folders {each TV show has it's own folder, most movies are in 1 of 2 folders)
Multimedia\Music\multiple sub folders
Multimedia\Photos\multiple sub folders

In Qnap Plex, I pointed to Multimedia folder and told it to index the folder. When I looked at Plex on my 2 yo Samsung TV {not true plex app???} all I see are all the files in alphabetical order. I would prefer to see the TV present files by folder. Not sure if the issue is with the TV or Qnap app.

suggestions or comments?

Spider99 · Post by **Spider99** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:07 am

sounds like you are connecting via dlna rather than with the app

part deux · Post by **part deux** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:27 am

TV shows it as Plex on Qnap. It also has a Qnap connection... but nothing happens when I connect to that link, no files are available.

part deux · Post by **part deux** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:31 am

It is a wireless connection, if that makes a difference.

Don · Post by **Don** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:45 am

If you are using the PLEX app then you need to create separate libraries and point each library to a separate folder. I have my movies separated by genre (sci-fi, comedies, nature, drama, etc) with a subfolder for each one. I have a library for each so I can just go in and look by genre.

part deux · Post by **part deux** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:58 am

Thank you Don,

So each TV show and movie genre in separate folders would have it's own Library?

and by library, you mean in the tab marked media folder
{Overview Media Library Media Folder}

I add each individual folder?

Don · Post by **Don** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 3:04 am

You could do each TV show in it's own library. It could get messy depending on how many TV shows you have. There are some great how to articles on the PLEX site on naming conventions and library set up.

Can't answer on the terminology at the moment as I don't have access to my system.

part deux · Post by **part deux** » Tue Dec 20, 2016 3:19 am

Too many

which is why I like a folder configuration.

I turned off DLNA and only dropped the video folder into the library. I'll look at how it's presented on the TV tonight.

Bobalaska · Post by **Bobalaska** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 6:53 am

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/sectio ... -Libraries

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/catego ... reparation

If you haven't seen these, take a look (if it's related to your question)

Trexx · Post by **Trexx** » Sat Dec 31, 2016 7:15 am

I setup 3 libraries in Plex.

1) Movies > /share/Multimedia/Video/Movies
2) TV > /share/Multimedia/Video/TV
3) Music > /share/Multimedia/Music/iTunes

Works just fine. You don't need to seperate by Genre, etc. as Plex will should "learn" that from Metadata scraping automatically.

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