How to organize your JAV collection?

Hi all, I am using JAV Movie Scraper right now and uploading everything to my Plex server. One of the main requirements for JAV Movie Scraper to work is to have each video file saved in the folder of the same name.

Eg. ABC-111.mp4 needs t be in "ABC-111" folder.
Once that is done, the scrapper can then generate the files required (poster, fanart, nfo) for Plex to recognise.

As I have quite a lot of videos, manually creating a folder, renaming the folder, dragging the file into the folder seems very time consuming. Is there a way I can automate this?

Looking forward to your advise.
 
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Hex8n3Hex said:
Hi all, I am using JAV Movie Scraper right now and uploading everything to my Plex server. One of the main requirements for JAV Movie Scraper to work is to have each video file saved in the folder of the same name.

Eg. ABC-111.mp4 needs t be in "ABC-111" folder.
Once that is done, the scrapper can then generate the files required (poster, fanart, nfo) for Plex to recognise.

As I have quite a lot of videos, manually creating a folder, renaming the folder, dragging the file into the folder seems very time consuming. Is there a way I can automate this?

Looking forward to your advise.
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Not automated but Bulk Rename Utility will cut down your task significantly especially when removing all the extra characters from the filenames.

Also the batch command I shared a few posts up will do exactly that. Creates a foldername from the filename of that directory and move them in
 
Is that the only way Plex and others like it work? You explicitly have to have a folder for each title? I've read that throughout this thread and others, there just isn't another way in any of its settings?
 
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Is that the only way Plex and others like it work? You explicitly have to have a folder for each title? I've read that throughout this thread and others, there just isn't another way in any of its settings?
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It feels a lot more organized to have a folder each for every title. Especially when the titles are split into 3-4 parts and with the covers and fanart files as well as the .nfo files.
 
Casshern2 said:
Is that the only way Plex and others like it work? You explicitly have to have a folder for each title? I've read that throughout this thread and others, there just isn't another way in any of its settings?
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Yes, that's how it works right now. Through some trial and error, I managed to get JAVMovieScraper working. It also has the option to move the .nfo, cover files into individual folders. Would highly recommend.

Separately, Plex doesn't register metadata as accurately as Emby.
 
Sorry for the possibly stupid questions, I’ve never used it nor seriously looked into it, specifically because I didn’t want to deal with a mountain of folders. But, for Plex to behave the way people want it to, to be able to find a movie and play it, that’s just how it is? Or are the folder structures for different reasons? And I understand about the *.nfo files it produces but those are a bit too completist for my simple needs. Not that they don’t do others a great amount of good!

I’ve been working on my way to at least catalogue my collection so I know what I have and where I have it. I’ve never had the need to find and play anything immediately; I’m not in a living space where I have that luxury anyway. So, having folders for each title for something like that to work isn’t necessary for me. Here is a quick and dirty rundown on how I catalog/store titles:

Note: I had been blindly archiving to disc not knowing what was where for the longest time. I had to come up with a way to know where things were, especially when looking for something specific, either a single title or anything from a favorite star. And I knew just the DVD codes weren’t going to help, I needed the visuals of the covers and didn’t want to have to go onto DMM/R18/JAVLibrary just to remember. Really, JAVLibrary probably would have been okay to use since you can select the titles you Own on your profile, but, there are plenty of titles they don’t list for whatever reason.

1. Acquire titles
2. Mux DVD cover as attachment with titles as MKV files
3. Add to next available temporary folder(*) with other titles until folder size reaches right at 46.2 GB
4. Run batch file in that folder to extract DVD Covers to a single Images folder(**)
5. Run Excel VBA application in that folder to grab file name/specs that Windows can and also call ffmpeg to grab file specs it can’t for each file into a CSV file
6. Burn folder contents to printable disc (***)
7. Spot check that files can be accessed/played on disc
8. After verification, delete folder from HDD
9. Label disc accordingly as BDXXX or BDVRXXX with a Sharpie
10. Place disc in binder (****)
11. Import CSV file into MySQL (*****)
12. Use PHP scraper to get just the data I want from R18 imported into MySQL
13. All titles from processed folder are now catalogued and viewable on local JAV Archive Database site

* Folders are named/numbered for content. BDXXX for normal titles, BDVRXXX for VR titles

** I have one folder for full images, my local web application sizes/crops front of cover using CSS for thumbnails and displays full images for title pages

*** I keep my collection on 50GB dual-layer Blu-ray discs

**** something similar to this https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Binder-Holder-Storage-Capacity/dp/B00DIHVM36/

***** I use USBWebserver which comes with a version of MySQL
 
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elfineer said:
That plug in is excellent. The only draw back is that is pulls from DMM/FANZA which means it is all going to be in Japanese. Not very useful for us non Japanese folk that cant read or speak to save our lives :)
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I tried importing the .bundle file to the folder and migrated it into Plex via Webtools. I cannot seem to find the JAV Media agent in the dropdown though. Only the other Agents I have previously installed show up. Any advice? I'm using Windows if that matters.
 
Actually plex does not care where you put the files, it is the plug-in that dictates that. I am using a different plug-in and i can put my files in folder star for all the star release, etc.
But i like mine to show the actress name for easy ID so i put them as such so plug-in will pick up actress name from the folder as tags, that way i can click on the actress name and filter all movies with that actress, or by release like star,miad,midd,pppd, etc.
Then easily track down where i kept the files via the info as shown below.
Note: the meta data can be thrown into google translate but it is not doing a good job so not worth it to add into plug-in.

maload:
1.Move '<plugin>.bundle' to your Plex plugins folder
for Windows it is : disk:\Users*username*\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Plug-ins
2. restart the plex media server
3. go to settings->agent-> you will see <plugin> shows up


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Okay, got it, nice! Good to know things can go where you want them, pretty much. What you're describing (by way of your example for Plex) is what I'm working on for my little project. I'm still working on things you can navigate through to on title pages. As you can see on the listing pages you can click through to DVD Code (AVOP, FLAV, JUFD, etc.), Star, Storage Disc (BD023, BD064, etc.) and title dimensions, although that was early on in development and will probably get dropped later.

Search for Shiori...
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to find Shiori Tsukada (or anyone else with Shiori in their name) (localhost:8080/results.php?keyword=Shiori)
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Clicked on FCDC-085 (localhost:8080/title.php?keywoard=FCDC-085)
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Clicked on the Series
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Went back, clicked on Studio
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Pipieye said:
Actually plex does not care where you put the files, it is the plug-in that dictates that. I am using a different plug-in and i can put my files in folder star for all the star release, etc.
But i like mine to show the actress name for easy ID so i put them as such so plug-in will pick up actress name from the folder as tags, that way i can click on the actress name and filter all movies with that actress, or by release like star,miad,midd,pppd, etc.
Then easily track down where i kept the files via the info as shown below.
Note: the meta data can be thrown into google translate but it is not doing a good job so not worth it to add into plug-in.

maload:
1.Move '<plugin>.bundle' to your Plex plugins folder
for Windows it is : disk:\Users*username*\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Plug-ins
2. restart the plex media server
3. go to settings->agent-> you will see <plugin> shows up
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I ended up doing my own mods to the JavPlex to produce some english results. I am still trying to add in Genre function. Seems Nick (the author) did not finish that portion.
 
Pipieye said:
Actually plex does not care where you put the files, it is the plug-in that dictates that. I am using a different plug-in and i can put my files in folder star for all the star release, etc.
But i like mine to show the actress name for easy ID so i put them as such so plug-in will pick up actress name from the folder as tags, that way i can click on the actress name and filter all movies with that actress, or by release like star,miad,midd,pppd, etc.
Then easily track down where i kept the files via the info as shown below.
Note: the meta data can be thrown into google translate but it is not doing a good job so not worth it to add into plug-in.
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I see that you have renamed your files to the format of [Video-Code] Actress name. How do you handle videos that feature more than 4 actresses?
 
I keep the file names as the DVD code and handle actor name searches by the database field.

Field value could be Star 1, Star 2, Star3, Star 4

(yes the field is actor names separated by commas)

Query would be Star like ‘%Star 3%’

That would return any title that has Star 3 anywhere in the name field, either all by herself or in a title with multiple JAV stars
 
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Casshern2 said:
I keep the file names as the DVD code and handle actor name searches by the database field.

Field value could be Star 1, Star 2, Star3, Star 4

(yes the field is actor names separated by commas)

Query would be Star like ‘%Star 3%’

That would return any title that has Star 1 anywhere in the name field, either all by herself or in a title with multiple JAV stars
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What about Stars who change their name? Like Kurea Hasumi, there's even some with 4 alias
 
I select the actress that I like most to identify my file names. But the metadata will have all actresses so it will show up nicely in Plex. Only downside to Plex is you are not able to edit metadata directly.
 
Hey @Casshern2, any chance you could create a Git repo so we could test out what you've got so far? That Plex plugin is OK at bet but I don't want to have to use plex just to see my JAV catalog.
 
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