Thank you Plex for adding this feature!
There are other tags, so Plex needs to know what to do with the information inside the curly brackets.
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Parroting the “compact the library view please. I don’t like seeing ‘Bambi (1942)’ five times in the full library view.” request.
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I’d like to see a way to somehow mark one edition to be the default to play when you first open it. This would be especially useful when you like to split apart ripped files and want to mark all files in some way with
{edition-<text>}.
Example:
From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)/
From Up On Poppy Hill (2011) {edition-Collector’s Edition, English}.mp4
From Up On Poppy Hill (2011) {edition-Collector’s Edition, Japanese}.mp4
or
Avatar (2009)/
Avatar (2009) {edition-Extended Edition}.mp4
Avatar (2009) {edition-Extended Edition with Director’s Commentary}.mp4
Avatar (2009).mp4This doesn’t exist because I only ever bought and downloaded the extended version from Amazon Unbox
I’ve proven in the first example specifically that Plex decides “Collector’s Edition, Japanese” is, for some reason, the one to pick when it doesn’t have an un-“edition’d” file to work from.
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I think separating editions completely (internally) is a bit overkill (who is going to rate their editions differently or change the genre of one but not the other) but I guess that was easier to implement (basically what the community has been doing to workaround this anyway). But hey, that allows you to hide (tag) specific editions from other users from the get-go.
Seems like the majority of requests is regarding the ability to merge all editions into one (which I’m all for) but besides that I’d also like to request a third way to specify editions (besides file and folder name): .plexedition (similar to .plexmatch).
This would give you the ability to keep your file names, have a default edition, specify your own order (instead of just alphabetically) and separate the edition name from the name that’s actually going to be displayed (e.g. edition name: Spider-Man 3.1, display name: Editor's Cut, I personally use this to add country flags to my titles to indicate that the special edition is not available in the library language).
I’ve been waiting for this, and I am grateful for progress, but it’s not really different to what was available before is it? We could always have two separate listings in the library for different editions? And yes there’s an editions tag, but we could always rename the entry with - Director’s Cut or similar and have basically the same experience. In fact, isn’t it slightly worse now, because all editions have the same movie title, making it harder to tell them apart in the library unless you rename it anyway. The other editions section within the movie is nice, but would make more sense if you could designate one as the main and have the others just appear in there, instead of in the library as well.
Assuming it’s a first step towards actually doing this properly, but I’m not really seeing any great leap forward here until we can merge the library entries into one and choose the edition from there?
Definitely don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but unless I’m missing something, I don’t really see the point of this right now.
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This is a nice first try, but the namespace pollution of tacking pseudo code onto filenames is a baffling choice.
This would be much better handled as metadata, either baked in or as a sidecar file, or as a manual database entry within Plex itself. This is especially true as additional tags are created and maintained.
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You don’t have to change the file name, you can just edit the movie inside the web management app.
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Yeah, and I plan to do that myself if I want to use this feature. But it’d be nice if Plex supported embedded metadata tags (supported in .mkv) to read the edition version.
I don’t know if there is a “Edition” tag pre-defined…
I’d rather all Editions merge under one Library entry.
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+1 default edition, hide others by default
+1 need guidance as to what to do with dvd/bd extras and trailers.
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I’m in agreement, after using the feature more, to have all editions under a single Library entry:
Users don’t go looking for an edition, they go looking for a movie title. The question of what edition comes after finding the title. Plex’s navigation should reflect that thought process.
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Yes, this sums it up perfectly.
Agreed, and I would be more willing to overlook this clunky method for a while if Plex was first at breaking new ground instead of following in the footsteps of Emby who achieved this years ago in the aforementioned logical way.
I am really happy to see this edition support being added to Plex and am thankful for all the continued work on it!
So I have a movie called “It’s a Wonderful Life” and I have the color and black and white editions. I was happy to combine both movie files into the same folder and add the correct edition tags. However after doing this, I realized I had two entries in my library that looked identical. One was the color version and the other was the black and white edition, but when I was searching for it in my library, I noticed that you couldn’t tell which was which until you opened one up. If it was the wrong one, I had to back out and select the other one.
I got around this issue by manually changing the title of the color one to have the word “-color” at the end. It would be great though if you could see the edition from the search results so we wouldn’t have to manually change titles to provide clarity when browsing/searching.
Thank you for adding some edition functionality! It’s neat having separate entities for each edition as then you can have separate posters, etc.
I just wish that the search showed the edition as users would then be able to choose which edition they want without us having to still monkey with titles to provide distinction.
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If you are interested, here are some B&W and color posters I created for It’s A Wonderful Life and Holiday Inn colorized movies.
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Currently, Plex’s multi-version support has allowed users to provide multiple different versions of the same underlying movie/episode and have them merged together. This is for cases where you have versions that are different resolutions (e.g. 1080p and 4K) or encodings (e.g. H.264 vs HEVC). The feature is also used as part of the server’s Media Optimizer feature.
That feature allows player apps to either automatically choose the appropriate version to play or else offer the user a choice, since the versions should all represent the same underlying movie or episode. It’s the same actual content, just a different resolution/encoding/etc.
So I see it says movie/episode here in that first paragraph of the feature post, but the rest of the article goes on how to do it for movies. Is this not a feature that works in a TV library? I have some shows that have an edited version for one territory and an unedition version for another and having them easily able to be chosen would be a big help rather than the “Play Version” feature which keeps me guessing on which one will be what.
From earlier in the thread:
I’m so happy to see this finally coming. But if I can nitpick, as a few others have said, I’d much rather see just one listing in my library for a film with multiple editions, with the ability to choose which edition to play from that one listing. I hope that’s in the pipeline.
In any case, devs, let me say again thank you for finally supporting multiple editions. Please continue to work on features like this that are geared towards and have been asked for by your customers who have actual media libraries. (I for one have no interest Plex integration with streaming or TV services and don’t think I’m alone in thinking you’d’ve introduced multiple editions a long time ago if you kept your focus on media libraries.)
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The feature seems to mostly work, but it is not picking up the editions on Star Wars for me and insists they are versions. Am I not seeing some mistake in the naming here?
/volume1/video/Movies/Star Wars/Star Wars - Episode 4 - A New Hope (1977) {edition-4K77}.mp4
/volume1/video/Movies/Star Wars/Star Wars - Episode 4 - A New Hope (1977) {edition-Despecialized v2.7}.mkv
This is the paths that Plex itself shows in the movie details under Info.
I experienced the same effect for the Despecialized versions when ‘moving’ them from Scenes to Editions.
For me, the Plex Dance solved it.
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