I’m about to try out PLEX and come from Emby. With Emby they auto create collections. Well they do two things:
Is the above available? From what I can see with 1 above, it looks like making collections is a manual “tagging” thing.
Thanks.
JR
If you want to allow TMDB to add movies to a collection with just that movie in it - you’ll know something the rest of us don’t.
Collections are very much a manual thing - and that’s fine cause that way they’re done right:
Plex nor Emby know what I want in a Collection.
Emby might think they do - but they don’t.
Plex knows they don’t - and they’re right.
That may be but could be personal choice. For me I would prefer to take my 1000+ movies and let it figure it out for me like Emby does based on the movie databasees. Only time I see issue with this is say you want to take the entire marvel universe or something like that and be able to group ever TV Show and Movie associated to it into one collection which won’t happen with these tools.
So basically PLEX has no tool for automating collection creation of doing a one time first setup tagging for you?
Your image brings up another related question. Does PLEX auto group by genera or decade?
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/
it only gets collection info from themovieDb. Be aware that one thing we do not currently have is the ability to not show the collection if there is only one item in it which is I think the primary reason many folks don’t have Plex do it automatically.
I have ONE Collection with a single movie in it (I don’t need 14 thousand of them):
The ONLY reason is so I have the Movie and the Series under one roof - and that doesn’ t even work on my Roku right now (but I have a good feeling about it being fixed - soonish):
But you have shown exactly where it is - so it can be disabled - eventually.
Thanks BigWheel. So does this also work with TV Shows? I know themovieDb wouldn’t but do they have the TV version of this also?
ThemovieDb does not have collections for TV so it won’t be automatic. We don’t get collection info from anyplace else. If you manually add the same collection tag to your TV they will show together on collection and summary pages though
So now take that Marvel item and know this would be manual. So it looks like TV Shows are second class citizens. Here’s the movies but by the way, here are some TV Shows. What if you wanted to create a collection that organizes all movies and TV Shows in order they should be watched per depending on which one you subscribe to, the marvel universe timeline?
I can’t think of any way to do that off the top of my head.
OK thanks. Two other items:
That link to Collections works, https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/?_ga=2.57569065.2064463846.1586182759-445289571.1585612389 but has dead graphic images further down.
Can you order Movies within a collection? So example, Fast and Furious. There is a different order which is as 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 3, 7, 8, and, (for now) “Hobbs and Shaw.” I’m going to guess the Collections maybe sort based on release date? So curious if you can tweak that manually. Not to keep bringing it up but been on it for ever, they have a sort order field that you can do like Furious1 for the first one and Furious2 for the second, and Furious3 for the forth as sorted above. So it uses that name to figure out how to sort within the Collection based on that name.
That is the subject of this feature request. Unfortunately, the thread has lost the images that were originally included, probably during the forum software changeover. You may want to add your vote.
odd the graphics work fine for me. Can you try to remove the question mark and everything after it in the URL. wondering if that google analytics code is screwing things up.
The choices are by release date or alphabetical The alphabetical order for a collection ( and the regular library) uses it’s Sort Title. So you could change the sort title of all of them to be like FF1-9. So Tokyo Drift would have the Sort Title “FF6” or whatever works for you ( it won’t display that anywhere, just used for sorting)
I have Rouge One with a sort title of Star Wars Episode 3.2 for example so it shows before a New Hope which is Star Wars Episode 4 However like I said this effects the regular library as well So Rogue One will show up in the S’s if I have it show items in the collection
OK that works. Basically what I’m doing in Emby. Emby doesn’t show individual movies in the movie view just the collection box once they are in a collection, but I’m OK with this. Thanks.
You can set your library to do that in Plex as well by default if you want.
Sorry I meant to the support article that he linked above.
OK, sounds good. One last question. The concept of having all the Marvel movies and TV Episodes together and sorted as they should be watched. Does PLEX have the concept of a playlist and could that accomplish this other item?
it does have playlist but creation is pretty basic. Manual adding items, or a smart PL based on a library filter (the filter can only do one library though)
OK I lied one more question but maybe it’s tied to my first question or was already answered. So if I have two different areas that store TV Episodes for the same show. So one is on the PLEX server and the other is on a network share but with the same layout, will it merge the content into a single view of shows? Glad to give an example if it helps.
Any individual library can be sourced from multiple folder paths as long as the computer you have the server installed on has access to those locations via file system. if you are Windows you can use UNC paths and such. My server is on a Mac letters and my movies are spread across two USB different drives and my NAS.. You could have the TV directories on across drives as well with first seasons of a show on one drive and the the last bunch on another. It will still be the same show as far as the server is concerned in that one library.
