Organizing Local Lecture Videos in Plex with Proper Metadata
How to structure local lecture/course videos (without an official TMDB/TVDB entry) in Plex as a proper TV Show with seasons, episode titles, and custom descriptions set via the Plex API.
The example here is Jonathan Biss’s Exploring Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas — a 5-part Coursera course from the Curtis Institute of Music, stored on a Synology NAS.
The Problem # Plex’s default scrapers rely on TMDB or TVDB. Local lecture videos with no database entry either show up as a mess of unmatched files, or get incorrectly matched to something unrelated.