First of all, Thank you very much for adding this new Feature.
Spendt a lot of Time to revise my library and over all it worked really fine.
I know that a new Feature usually needs some fine tuning, so i wanna take the focus at issues.
An issue which i noticed, are the cutted Names under Android.
Web and Windows wanna show you the full Named Edition when Android often cuts down the length.
For Example: FAN CUT _ (DIRECTORS CUT & THEATRICAL END) ==> FAN CUT _ (DIRECTORS CUT & THEAT… UNCUT _ Audio 1 = New ¦ Audio 2 = Old ==> UNCUT _ Audio 1 = New ¦ Audio 2… True Love Edition _ ALTERNATE END ==> True Love Edition _ ALTERNATE EN…
So actually it isn’t optimal to use “Editions” when there are some important Informations about an Edition.
(When you write this information under the Content Rating Field (used before for “Editions”), they will be shown completely.)
Generally
I would recommend not to edit the “Edition” Field manually, because so i got the case where PLEX wouldn’t rename this Field again by an edited Filename.
I already seperated Editions with tagged under AGE, so all movies still stand in the Watchlist and hold the Watched status fine. No of them showed up as a New Movie which i really appreciate it.
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?
I find myself caring less and less about “editions” vs. “versions” as I’m using this. As a result, I’d prefer the dropdown to sort all of the different files I have for a single movie. I really don’t have a desire to search for different posters or have specific descriptions for each one. I’m just not picky in that regard. (I’d even just outright admit that I’m lazy) I feel like I could have done it that way before they released the change if I wanted to?
I understand that this is just me, and my preference, though… and I wish we had the option of working it whichever way we choose to present it to the end user.
Plex could simply look for a “Default” added to the file name. Since we’re already renaming files for this, that’s an easy thing to add. If there are multiple editions listed as Default, it could choose the first one.
Honestly, even without that, I’d still be in favor of combining editions into one listing: Prior to this feature, we already needed to manually (and sometimes laboriously) fix every single edition by editing the Plex metadata, so it’s probably not unreasonable to an admin to take a few minutes to manually choose the default edition in the interface.
Plex could also use heuristics for this. A random example: The first default option is the one that has no edition listed in the filename (so it’s probably theatrical). The second option would have “theatrical”. The third would be “director”. Maybe fourth could be “extended”.
If the desire is there, I’m sure this particular situation could be worked out. I’m not sure if the desire is there.
I could not disagree more with these statements which, I think, proves that Plex should provide the option for a consolidated display of editions as well as the current separate implementation.
In your first example you has two versions of the same edition (only difference is the audio and presumably subtitles).
Likewise for your Avatar example. In reality you only need to have one mp4 file with multiple Audio and/or subtitle tracks for each example.
I have two Editions of a movie, cinema cut 2160p and directors cut 1080p.
I’ve replaced the directors cut 1080p with directors cut 2160p.
Before editions I did it like this:
Add 2160p version
Rescan library
Delete 1080p version
But with editions, they were not merged. I merged them manually. But instead of merging the newer one to the older one, plex merged the older one to the newer one. The edition-tag was empty and the added to library date was set to today.
Now I have a movie for years in library as 1st in recently added.
How should I replace a edition the correct way?
Thanks!
Btw, why can’t you still change the added date in plex? Things like this happen all the time.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I totally dig that they’re doing something about editions, and I’m happy for the support! I guess what I meant to say is that versions and editions are becoming poTAEto/poTAHto for me. They’re all different ways to watch the same movie.
I can appreciate wanting granularity and distinction for editions. I’d rather group that separate, and I totally realize this is a preference and not a deal breaker.
Man, that would be super nice to have, too! I am forever getting things popped into Just Added when I goofed moving them around.
Can we see if “Editions” can also be implemented on the TV Shows Category?
Thinking about Star Trek Original Series Remastered Edition and Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 Episode “The Measure of a Man” Extended Edition.
Ah, I used to run Moviefan.plex’s Database tool for this all the time. Devastated when that stopped working! So annoying when something rogue appears in there.
This will have big side effects in many cases, because if your date and time is set wrong, your server won’t be able to use encrypted/secure communications (to access the various metadata servers).
Not recommended at all.
Thanks for your reply. I know the new naming convention: Name of Movie (1982) {edition-Director’s Cut}.mp4
However, I have an existing library and the files are older than the new edition feature. So the filename of the 1080p version was: Name of Movie (Directors Cut) (1980) - 1080p.mkv
I used the same filename for the 2160p version: Name of Movie (Directors Cut) (1980) - 2160p.mkv
Would it have worked if I had taken the new naming covention for the 2160p version?
Anyway, I think if I manually merge two versions, the tags and the added to library date of the old version should be kept.
One more question. Is it possible to rename the files to the new naming convention with editions without getting them new in the library?
