Allow us to sort our Libraries how we want when clicking more!

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Request: Can we please have an option to order Libraries alphabetically irrelevant of type when Viewing Servers after clicking MORE

With the latest updates to PMS the sorting of the libraries when clicking MORE is a bit of a mess… It is currently ordering them by Library type -> Library ID

Which means they are listed in the order they were created, which is not very helpful… and there is no simple way to change it.

I know this is going to be changed to Library Type -> Library Name Which is a bit better, but still does not fit my use case.

The common answer is Pin them… But I have Libraries that I do not want pinned to my home screen, as I have multiple servers with the same Libraries (used as backup servers). But the libraries were not created in the same order on these servers so the order is all over the place.
(I also still use PMP, so pinning is not an option on there)

I have other Libraries Like Tutorials which I do not want Pinned either. and some Libraries, both TV and Movies that I would like always to be at the bottom of the lists.

With this new change, this is no longer going to be possible if grouped by type.

(Yep I know I am probably an edge case, but the way it worked before was ideal for me)

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I’m having the same exact issue. Can’t sort libraries alphabetically like it used to. Libraries look disorganized and hard to find my movies or shows to watch now.

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When did this change? It’s annoying!

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I think the release after Version 1.21.0.3711

As 1.21.0.3711 is what I rolled back to to get my libraries back in the order I want not the order Plex decides

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Alphabetical was much better - I have nearly 22 libraries, some with similar or identical names to sort them together. Now the sorting is completely destroyed for the unpinned libraries. Why is it so hard to understand that we don’t want Plex messing with our library order?

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I thought I was losing it… My Plex Libraries are completely out of order and I have no way to change the order. I don’t want to use pinning to sort them, but use pinning to select my top favourites. It’s annoying and irritating having them completely out of order. Please update Plex so we can sort them manually or by automatic means.

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I agree this change was completely illogical. Having to rely on an older version of the server is ridiculous, especially because it’s clearly not a bug but a deliberate (and poor) choice.

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Thank you for posting this request. I would tweak it to ask Plex to make the list alphabetical by default, but allow us to choose perhaps between alphabetical, whatever their preferred arrangement is, and completely arranging things the way we want to.

Pinning doesn’t solve the problem AT ALL because the sort order we create is what is distributed to our users. To require users to learn how to pin libraries in order to make sense of what we’re offering is, frankly, ridiculous.

Seriously, sort order should never be this complicated and certainly shouldn’t be something that breaks on a new release and then takes months to repair.

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If this is the new norm (sort by library type and then alphabetical, rather than entirely alphabetically for ALL libraries), then I have to say I’m disappointed as well. It is confusing and as others have said the point to pinning, from my point of view, should be to select favorites that you use frequently and not as an auxiliary way to sort them. Not sure why this was changed other than for change’s sake.

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So has this now been done?

Looking at my libraries on the hosted app, the order seems to be back to alphabetical irrelevant of type.

If so can someone from Plex mark this request as implemented so we can all get our votes back

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You should be able to order them any way you wish but what do paying customers know?

I have numbers in front of mine like 1) TV, 2)MOVIES etc and since I deleted the TV Library and redid it, they no longer will come up in order when I number them and THAT is Woketarded!
This needs to be fixed because after every update or new Device, I have to go and manually do it. STOP Fixing things that are NOT Broken only to then break them! Oh & speaking of breaking things, Recommended and Library should be adjustable and if ANYTHING should be the DEFAULT, It Should be LIBRARY with the option to use Recommended but nope, we are forced into lunacy so we have to CHANGE MANUALLY EVERY LIBRARY on EVERY DEVICE instead of the people who want to sort by “Recommended” to do theirs just once and then I wouldn’t have friends and family calling me up every week saying “Hey, I thought you had this” or Where is everything? I am only see part of your media"… because they haven’t a clue it is defaulting to Recommended. Must be one sweet deal y’all got to have Recommended as the Default, but I digress. The order needs to be fixed. I voted 1 of my votes and since you only get 5 Votes ever as far as I can tell and some have used theirs up, it would probably be much higher after looking at how many threads have been about this subject praying for a fix. I’m sure I’m just 'issin in the wind here but WTH.

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You can turn recommended on and off for each library any time you wish.

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From the Server or Each Individual Device like I just explained because if it’s available to turn off in the server, I can’t find it. Please do tell and save me a headache… I have been all over the Server for 3 years and can’t figure out how to turn it off or remove it.

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Manage → Libraries. Hover over your library, select “Manage Recommendations”. Turn on/off as you wish. You can also change the order in which they show up.

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Thank you so much. it isn’t exactly how I’d want it as Library should be Defaulted but at least I can remove them all or dwindle it to maybe “Top in Genre” & “Recently Added”, this way with it not being so large a directory, people should then realize it is not the library section and that is why they aren’t seeing what they maybe looking for giving them a better chance of figuring it out for themselves. Anyhow, Thanks a bunch. It’ll do. I would kiss you if you were here but then that could be a punishment :slight_smile:

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