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I have multiple movies with multiple versions(director’s cuts, for instance), and all of them have the same issue where the local extras do not appear with the films at all.
Secondarily, only one version of the film includes the Settings>Extras trailers.
An example is Terminator 2, which has a Theatrical Cut, Special Edition Cut, and Extended Special Edition Cut. When the movie is not split apart, all of the extras show correctly. When the movie is split apart, the local extras disappear completely and only one version has the Settings>Extras trailers.
I just checked this on a number of different cuts for Avatar. The library in question is using Plex Movie as its agent and the different editions have been split into different items (Theatrical Cut, Extended Edition). Both items have the online trailers.
The local extras really being the problem. The online extras seem to be fine, at least for one of my variations. It looks like if they’re all added before any split, the online extras persist across them all(local entries do not), but if you split and add another split later, it looks like even the online extras do not persist.
I tested this with the new Editions feature and the same thing happens. Local extras do not show for either movie. I also did a Plex Dance to confirm it wasn’t a leftover data issue
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Give each edition its own folder. Don’t let several editions share a folder.
Then decide which local extra shall appear with which edition and move their files into the appropriate folder.
In other words: local extras cannot be shared among several editions of a movie.
How could that be the intended functionality? It makes absolutely no sense. I have to pick one version of a film that’s split using a feature that lets me split films cleanly while matched together to have any local features at all?
I have this same issue. Now with the new ‘editions’ functionality none of my local extras show up on any of the editions of a movie. Before they would sometimes appear with the first edition in the files list. While it is now easier to split separate editions with this new feature, it would be nice to put the local extras in the same folder as all the editions of a movie and see those same extras for all of them. Having to pick one edition (without duplicating files) to assign extras to is not ideal. Looks like I need to create a bunch of extra folders now.
I think the UX design around editions would be much more intuitive if there was one item in Plex for each movie, with multiple editions available upon choosing that movie (i.e. editions are merged, not split). Further, this should logically mean one folder for each movie, and extras are shared across editions.
I still would like them visually split because of posters/collections and the fact that different editions can have different commentary tracks, but they should definitely share extras. There’s no reason to either need to duplicate extras (take up a bunch of space) or pick one variant of a film to receive extras. It doesn’t make logical sense from a data management or user experience perspective. Maybe there’s some fundamental issue with it under the hood that isn’t so easy, but that’s also something that can be shared so that we can alter expectations
