Created a "Coming Soon" section for Plex users using Trailarr

[alexkahler]

Hey,

Just wanted to show a cool way to use Trailarr in an unconventional way. Plex users of my server now have a small "Coming Soon" section where they can see trailers for movies that will soon be available on the server.

Here's how to set it up:

• Point Trailarr's mount path from the Movies folder (on the Radarr side) to a Trailers folder (on the Trailarr side).
  
• Unmonitor all movies, except unreleased/upcoming ones. Since I always unmonitor movies once they've been downloaded in Radarr, I chose to "Sync" the Trailarr connection, ensuring that movies on Trailarr have the same status.
  
• Create a library on Plex using the "Other Videos" library type, and point it to the Trailers folder.

A good tip: Enter the release date for each movie in the trailer's "Originally Available" metadata. This way, users can sort trailers chronologically by release date. This requires a bit of manual work but is well worth it.

Finally, Trailarr is a bit "download happy" and indiscriminate when it picks the trailer on YouTube, which sometimes leads to fan-made or unofficial cough garbage trailers being downloaded—especially for movies without a set release date (e.g., Avengers Movie No. 6357 or generic Marvel Movie No. 7432). The only way to avoid this is to turn off trailer monitoring completely or unmonitor movies without official trailers yet.