There’s an existing suggestion discussing an option to present available audio tracks with the term „Commentary“ in their track title as extras. If I your suggestion correctly, you’d like to achieve the same but based on creating a symlink file in a video’s direction that contains a reference which tracks it should play.
Example:
File
Movies
Movie 1 (year)
Movie 1 (year).ext
with audio tracks
- a1: English
- a2: French
- a3: Director’s Commentary
- a4: Commentary by Actor 1 & Actor 2
Their suggestion:
Plex should list the file in your library with 2 automatically created „extras“ labeled
- Director‘s Commentary
- Commentary by Actor 1 & Actor 2
Each playing the movie with that particular audio track selected (without switching the audio selection of the movie itself).
Your suggestion:
Have a dedicated symlink to the file, that’s pointing to the commentaries you’d like to see represented in the library itself.
I’m just a bit confused if you’re aiming to use those as actual separate editions or extras… so it could be either
Separate edition entry with pre-configured audio/subtitle selection, e.g.
Movies
Movie 1 (year) <- main file, regular library item
Movie 1 (year).ext
Movie 1 (year) {edition-Director‘s Commentary}{audio-3}{subtitle-…}
Movie 1 (year) {edition-Director‘s Commentary}{audio-3}{subtitle-…}.ext <- symlink
Movie 1 (year) {edition-Commentary by Actor 1 & Actor 2}{audio-4}{subtitle-…}
Movie 1 (year) {edition-Commentary by Actor 1 & Actor 2}{audio-4}{subtitle-…}.ext <- symlink
→ listing 3 editions
- main movie
- Director’s Commentary
- Commentary by Actor 1 & Actor 2
Main movie and per-commentary extras with pre-configured audio/subtitle selection, e.g.
Movies
Movie 1 (year)
Movie 1 (year).ext
Director’s Commentary {audio-3}{subtitle-…}-commentary.ext <- symlink
Commentary by Actor 1 & Actor 2 {audio-4}{subtitle-…}-commentary.ext <- symlink
→ listing the main movie with 2 extras
- Director’s Commentary
- Commentary by Actor 1 & Actor 2
