Interesting. You’re putting a lot of information in the Edition field. I would put the short name of the Edition in Edition, and add additional details to the Summary myself.
But I’m doing that manually from within Plex. Are you baking all of that into the Movie (YYYY) {edition-BLAH BLAH BLAH} filename tag?
Filenames are considered when Plex first ingests a file. Renaming a file won’t trigger the matching process again. To force Plex to look at filenames again, perform the Plex Dance (but then they’ll also be considered Recently Added).
What is the Age Field? Content Rating? Can you share a screenshot?
My vote is exactly NOT this. Editions are first-class citizens!
(How would Plex know which one is the main/preferred/primary?)
Editions have different posters, titles, years, directors, content ratings, critic + audience ratings, runtimes, languages, actors, etc.
They’re in different collections and playlists. They have different extras. They’re shared separately.
But I only have a few editions of a few movies, and I want them all visible in the Library. I don’t have 27 versions of Star Wars (1977). If I did, I would use a Collection to group (and hide) most of the niche versions.
Instead, would Automatically create collections for multiple editions be a useful Plex feature?
Or perhaps that’s something Plex Meta Manager could add additional support for. Edition support is imminent in python-plexapi. Ask the PMM team?
