I just got yt-dlp working and downloaded some kids videos for my toddler. I placed them in a folder for my Plex to pick up but it just never shows them.

My structure: \Media\Kids Shows\The Little Bird\Season 1

There are four little bird and the… videos in that folder. I assume since it’s not a real show that has metadata it’s having trouble? Thanks in advance for the help.

  • CXDReaperEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Make sure you go to your libraries in Plex and create a new library for videos directly. Not sure if you did that. It’s worked for me. I add the videos to the folder I selected for the library. After that, I have to go and edit the information through Plex, as like you said, metadata is going to fail.

    Anytime I’ve added things here, it seems to work fine.

    Hell, I even added a YouTube series as a TV show by creating season folders and adding in the regular naming convention like S01E01. Had to modify everything manually as it didn’t have metadata to scan.