# Collection Metadata

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-metadata/932199>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Created:** [October 6, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-metadata/932199 "2025-10-06T19:45:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![skhull2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/skhull2/32/300205_2.png) [@skhull2](https://forums.plex.tv/u/skhull2)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 7:45pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-metadata/932199/1 "2025-10-06T19:45:07Z")

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When I create the collections for my movies, I then have to go into each collection & add the metadata for the collection using [https://www.themoviedb.org/](https://www.themoviedb.org/). Is there a way to have Plex automatically add the metadata to the collections, the same it does for movies & TV shows?

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-metadata/932199/2 "2025-10-06T21:07:24Z")

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Plex will download metadata (poster, description) for automatically created collections.  
There’s a suggestion to allow matching manually created collections, so they can linked with a collection listed on TMDb.

> [@'Match'/'Fix Match' for Collections](https://forums.plex.tv/t/match-fix-match-for-collections/695285):
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> The Movie DB has entries for Collections, such as: It might be a nice feature if one could Match a collection using the TMDB ID number. It would allow Plex to grab descriptions and cast information. This might be more difficult for Music libraries. Musicbrainz has ‘Release Series’ that function like Collections, but I don’t know how complete they are.

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**Author:** ![skhull2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/skhull2/32/300205_2.png) [@skhull2](https://forums.plex.tv/u/skhull2)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-metadata/932199/3 "2025-10-06T21:26:14Z")

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How do you automatically create collections?

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2025, 10:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-metadata/932199/4 "2025-10-06T22:13:55Z")

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You can configure your library to automatically create collections if you have more than a configurable number of their items (e.g. 2 or 3).

[https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2026, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/collection-metadata/932199/5 "2026-01-04T22:14:33Z")

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Closed on January 4, 2026, 10:14pm UTC

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