My use case: I have >1000 movies. My 3yr old likes to watch a handful of Disney movies. I don’t need him to have his own account or be restricted, but I also haven’t found an efficient way of listing just a few movies to make it easy to choose which one to play for him. The hack that I’ve done is …

Plex’s solution for what you’re trying to do is a user ( managed or otherwise) with restrictions. If you set up a user for your son, share your Movies library with that user, and set the user’s restrictions like this: [image] Then that user will only see movies with that label. I used “Harry Pott…

Thanks @beckfield , I’m aware of the user-level sharing restrictions and that’s the same functionality that I want. However, I’m looking for a bit smoother experience than having to switch users each time I want to watch something different. My son isn’t able to use the TV himself yet and so I just…

Dynamic Libraries and/or Pinnable playlists

Plex Media Server

krugster July 26, 2020, 5:16pm 2

Pinnable collections would do it too: Pin Collections to Home Screen

Topic		Replies	Views
How to create a "Kids" library without copying or moving your files Dev/API Corner other-dev	9	5139	January 8, 2020
Help with sharing possibilities Plex Players server-synology , ios-legacy	3	86	June 16, 2022
[Feature Request] Sharable Playlists Feature Suggestions	6	68	June 10, 2021
Sharing Playlist between different Users Feature Suggestions granting-access	9	230	October 1, 2022
[Feature Request] Public playlists / share playlists with users on the same PMS General Discussions	32	2771	March 20, 2020

Dynamic Libraries and/or Pinnable playlists

Related topics