[HowTo] Selecting multiple items for edit, playlist, etc.

Note: These instructions apply when browsing your libraries in Plex Web. They also work within collections. They do not apply to search results. To discuss or vote for feature requests regarding search results, please search the Feature Suggestions forum.

When you hover over any Library item, some controls appear:

You can put the UI into Selection mode in either of two ways:

  • By clicking on the ‘Select’ control for any item. OR
  • Hold the Ctrl key and click on any item (you don’t have to hit the ‘Select’ control in this case. Anywhere on the poster will do).

As soon as any item is selected, you are in Select mode. To select additional individual items, you can just click anywhere on the poster.

Note - In Folder View, multi-select only works when selecting tracks. The ‘select’ tool appears when you hover over the track:

As always, you can select a range of items by using Shift+click. Select the first item as shown above, then hold the Shift key down and click the last item. Everything between them will be selected.

As you can see in the screenshots, the Multi-select Actions bar contains a count of selected items, controls to play, add to playlist/collection, edit, etc, and a ‘Deselect All’ control, which clears all selections and takes you out of Selection mode.

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Note: You can only edit multiple items of the same type. In Movie libraries, if the library is configured to display collections, be careful to only select individual movies, and not a mix of movies and collections.

Weird, I don’t see circles in the top left corner. What I’ve done it search movies for “harry potter” and then I want to add all of the search results to a “Harry Potter” playlist.
I have and edit button in the bottom left, and 3 dots in the bottom right. Also in the middle is a circle with the “Play” icon in the middle for playing the movie. Screenshot attached.

These instructions only apply to browsing your libraries. They do not apply to search results.

Hello,

It’s posible to renaming multiple movies in 1 time?

I have 2 folders of movie in plex.

Movie
4k movies

I want to edit all movie in"4k movie" to put “4k” in the title. Exemple: 4k Inerstellar, 4k Logan, 4k Matrix…

@beckfield - replying to your Nov '17 comment: This is precisely the problem; this is why there are several feature requests that effectively amount to “please add the select control(s) to searh results.” While I dont understand the underlying architecture of this particular software, I have dealt with this exact issue many, many times, and this seems like a relatively minor/incremental feature add.

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That should be discussed in those feature request threads, not the How To section.