When I started using Plex I had heard that it automatically used collections for movies. I was quite excited about this until I found out how Plex actually implements this. Once I realized how it was implemented I was very disappointed. Currently you can turn on a filter and sort by collections which gives you a text list of collections you can scroll down.
I think this is not useful for the following reasons:
It’s unlikely a novice will find this on their own. I had to follow a web post step by step to figure out what they were talking about.
Even if you do find it, it’s anti-climactic in its lack of usefulness. It’s a big hassle to push a bunch of keys to go from the beautiful graphic display of the movies to a dull text display.
You have to choose to either view all your movies through the normal view or your collections through a text view.
Why can’t Plex simply allow all movies of a series to be collapsed into a single item that is viewed as a part of the whole movie collection. Eliminate the useless filter implementation and make this truly useful please.
There are several existing requests for this. Rather than splitting votes across several threads, please add your vote by clicking ‘Like’ on the first post in that thread.
Thanks. I’m new to the forums, so I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction.
I noticed that the request you referenced is from over 3 years ago in 2013. Do you know if there has been any response from Plex on if this is going to be implemented?
For anyone interested, I spent a little time and pulled all of the posts related to “Collections” (that I could find) into sort of a summary post with counts. Its pretty interesting to see how many posts there were on the same idea and how popular a lot of them were. Just goes to show how many people are interested in this feature and also on how little attention it seems to be getting from the development team :-/ Maybe by pulling together some stats we might be able to encourage some actual progress?
