Is their a naming convention or local way for Plex to pick up Collection data? Like KODI and MovieSets folder? This would be a lot easier than manually editing 400+ collections.
No, there is no folder structure convention. Simply because Collections in Plex can span librariy boundaries and any item can be a member of several collections. This cannot be converted into a folder structure.
If you are using mp4 files, Plex will pick up the content of the ‘Album’ meta tag as ‘Collection’.
(provided, the ‘Local Media Assets’ agent is active)
Do also keep in mind that you can use the custom filters in the web app to minimize the scrolling you’ll have to do.
And you can select several movie items with CTRL-click and/or Shift-click to edit at once.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392126-Using-the-Library-View
@OttoKerner said:
No, there is no folder structure convention. Simply because Collections in Plex can span librariy boundaries and any item can be a member of several collections. This cannot be converted into a folder structure.If you are using mp4 files, Plex will pick up the content of the ‘Album’ meta tag as ‘Collection’.
(provided, the ‘Local Media Assets’ agent is active)Do also keep in mind that you can use the custom filters in the web app to minimize the scrolling you’ll have to do.
And you can select several movie items with CTRL-click and/or Shift-click to edit at once.
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392126-Using-the-Library-View
I mean, it could. If that was the concern, to so something like “MovieSets” could easily be applied without issue. Instead it could be simply called “PlexCollections” or something, and it sits at the location of each libraries data, so for example:
TV Shows I have a folder called TV Shows\PlexCollection
Movies I have a folder called Movies\PlexCollection
That does introduce some duplicate data, but wouldn’t be the end of the world as its small data. Another approach could be Plex points to a folder of choosing when looking at collection data. So I tell plex to point to \Movies\PlexCollections for instance. As long as the file name matches the collection name (say Marvel-fanart.jpg and Marvel-Poster.jpg) anything in said collection would pick up that image.
To me that seems easy and logically, maybe not the way it was coded, but shouldn’t be a crazy effort. Thoughts?
