Collections in need of their own section. Movies and TV like those released by Marvel would greatly benefit from having a section that is BOTH Movies and TV.
There was a feature request for Hybrid Collections before the Plex Forums died and got migrated, in the post the OP provided some great examples of what it could look like. There had been a lot of votes for it, but it seemed that it was mostly ignored and never implemented.
Collections already can have both movies, shows, albums and artists in them.
Just name them identically.
However a separate section would be much easier you viewers to find things.
Having them named identically sounds more like a bug than a feature.
I understand that, but a Section would be single place to go for collections. Much like Plex has a TV & Movies Section of licensed content or the Playlists Section.
What’s wrong with the Collections Tab in your Libraries?
Shows the same thing as my Library View - 'cause all I have are Collections, but the tab is right there.
You can also use the Sort Title Field in a Collection - to put then in the library where you want them - as shown.
(forgive the mess - under (constant) construction)
There is an existing request for this, with more votes. Rather than splitting votes across multiple threads, it’s best to add votes there.
A collection Section would be in my opinion a cleaner implementation. It also makes it easier for the viewer to jump right there in a Plex client.
But you only see this multi-library view of collections if you access Collections from a Movie library. The Collections tab only appears in Movie libraries.
That’s not true. The collections tab appears in the TV shows library as well and you get the same view that @OttoKerner showed if you go to a TV series that is part of a collection that has movies in it.
-Shark2k
I am looking to add TV to collections as well. Example Marvel has Agents of Shield, the Netflix series and Agent Carter. Anime has both movies and TV, a lot of time you need to was a season or two of the TV, then switch to Movies (which would tie into custom ordering collection items).
I only have a single TV show, so I may be an outlier here, but I just added a season of that show to my “Harry Potter” collection (which contains movies and music), and no Collections tab appears in my TV library. However, it showed up a different issue that I’ll be raising.
Edit: Okay, something very weird just happened. After moving around the UI a bit, the Collections tab showed up. There has been a collection in the TV library for months. Can’t imagine why the tab never appeared before (probably just to make me look goofy).
Well, not sure how much easier you need it, but I’m not opposed to more Collection Features - like a letter stack, for instance, but…:
‘Sort Title’ Brings the focus group forward.
That doesn’t work on the Roku, but… we’re hopeful.
Let me fix that background while I’m here…lol:
That doesn’t work on the Roku either - again - hopeful.
Was just going to upload screenshots of my library but no need now.
Can’t say why that happened but at least it’s there now (though it is strange).
-Shark2k
However, there is still no Collections tab in Music libraries, and you only get the cross-library view of a collection if you access it from a Movies library.
This View?
Unless I misunderstand - I’m in the Monty Python Collection in the TV Show Library.
The other way looking back:
It’s buggy - 'cause if I hit the link over either to go to the ‘other’ collection - once there, the ‘other’ collection doesn’t show.
I always have to go in ‘from the front’ - The Library - to get both Collections.
I don’t have a Music library so can’t weigh in on that.
However, if you are referring to the view in @OttoKerner’s post, this is what I see when I just clicked on my Entourage collection from my TV library:
-Shark2k
Man, something is definitely messed up.
Early 2021 clean-up: thread is all over the place… basic functionality is already available, other stuff available in existing threads (duplicate)
