You then place this in your root Movies folder as below I have separate disks and is laid out as below:įor the best success rate when scanning movies in Plex you should have all your movies named with the movie title within a folder that also matches the movie title. You will need either different root folders or disks for your Movies, TV and Music. We will add libraries later on.īefore we proceed with adding a library let’s discuss how your media should be arranged. Unless you want Plex to add media from your service account user’s Music and Photos folder click the red cross next to them to remove them, then click Next. If you do you will need to ensure that the correct security precautions are taken, which we will discuss later on. The next part is very important – you need to decide whether or not you want to access Plex outside of your network. Once logged in you will see the How Plex Works screen, click GOT IT! If you do not have a Plex account go here and set one up If you open your browser you should now be able to see the Plex login page at This will redirect you to the website where you can login with your Plex account. Once complete Plex should now be started within the service using the account you created, click Finish Click Test Credentials an you should get a tick, then click Next and Install msi installer and click NextĬhoose the Plex Service account that you created earlier and enter the password. If it does not you will need to add the necessary credentials in the Windows Credential Managerĭownload the Plex as a Service installer file from here. You will need to login as this account to Windows and make sure that it has read access to your media files. You can see my service account below named Plexsvc Open the Windows computer management console (compmgmt.msc) and create a user account to run the Plex service. The only downside to skipping this step is that you will need to leave a user permanently logged in for Plex to work. If you need Hardware transcoding skip this step. I’ve had some feedback from the Plex community that this step will actually stop you from being able to use Hardware Transcoding. Wait for the installer to finish and then click close Once you have the installation file downloaded run the installer and click Install Installationįirst you will need to download Plex Media Server from here. If you are a free Plex user you can just skip any steps that don’t apply to you.
A lot of the features in this guide make use of the Plex Pass which is a paid subscription. We will configure the running of Plex as a Windows service later on. By default Plex runs in the profile of a logged in user. This guide will run through the entire process of setting up a working Plex Media Server in Windows. In later posts I will discuss how to monitor with Tautulli and how to setup Sonar to dynamically add content.
For this post I will go over all the necessary steps to setup a Plex server.
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