I support this future
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I think this would be a great feature. This would give me a central overview of all my media..
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I agree this would be an amazing feature
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With new streaming services creating content they don’t plan to release on Blu-Ray, it would be great if we could add movies from linked streaming services to our Movie Collection. For example, “The Electric State” is a Netflix produced movie that I can only get to show up in my Watchlist. It would be nice if I could add that movie to my “Movie Catalog” where all of my other content is.
I’d second this.
I own a lot of movies across different services (Vudu, iTunes, Prime…) and I had to make do with a silly Excel sheet to keep track of all my stuff. I’ve even accidentally bough a movie twice for that reason.
Would love to have the Plex library act as my personal collection view. I’m not looking to play those files from other services right inside the Plex app, but rather have Plex deep link to those other apps for playback instead.
I’ve found a similar feature request with 14 votes. Could those request be merged?
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I merged the two threads incl. the votes (though, it appears some users had already voted in both)
@tom80H
Please have a look at how Channels and Infuse have implemented this feature.
They achieve this with what they call “Stream Links”. Basically a simple text file with the URL to a particular movie on a streaming service like VUDU or Apple TV, which adds the movie to the library. When the user tries to play the file, the entry acts as a deep-link and opens the corresponding app for playback.
EDIT:
To show that there’s a real world need for this feature, just see to what length users go to get something like this working in Plex.
A user on reddit posted a workaround, that uses short, 5 second long dummy video files that simply displays on which service a particular movie was purchased. By remaining the file to match the name of a particular move title, the user is able to aggregate all the purchased movies and tv shows in a single Plex library.
Here’s a video that shows how this “stream link”-implementation works in Channels:
This is precisely what I’ve been looking for for many years! I’m seriously considering switching from Plex. 
EDIT:
I’ve spend some time playing around with Infuse and Channels the last couple of days. The “stream link”-implementation would be a nice addition to Plex as well.
Instead of an actual movie file, you just place a simple text file with an .strmlnk file ending like Total-Recall-1990.strmlnk in your library. This file contains just the link to the playback source:
https://tv.apple.com/movie/total-recall/umc.cmc.25btbyzkrdyo50inh72zp90cl
In this example, Pale Rider is a movie file stored locally on my NAS, whereas the Total Recall entry links to the 4k version I’ve bough on iTunes.
I’ve noticed that there’s an old feature request from 2022 with 146 votes for implementation of Stream Links (files with .strmlnk file extension) which is basically a first step of what this feature request ist looking for.
Maybe it makes sense to combine the two?
