I’m about to try out PLEX and come from Emby. With Emby they auto create collections. Well they do two things: Auto create collections of movies and tv shows based on internet metadata. When going thru your movies or shows, do not show a movie or show individually in addition to the collection. …

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 [screencapture-app-plex-tv-desktop-2020-04-06-12_50_52] […

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…

[image] jriker1: 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. The…

[image] jriker1: What if you wanted to create a collection that organizes all movies and TV Shows in order they should be watched That is the subject of this feature request . Unfortunately, the thread has lost the images that were originally included, probably during the forum software change…

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. [image] jriker1: Can you order Movies within a collection? The choices are by release date or alphabetical The alphab…

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.

[image] jriker1: Emby doesn’t show individual movies in the movie view just the collection box once they are in a collection, You can set your library to do that in Plex as well by default if you want.

[image] BigWheel: 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. There’s no question mark in the URL. [image]

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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.

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