There are some movie extras which don’t necessarily belong to an individual movie, but belong to a movie series. For example, a documentary about Back to the Future which covers all 3 movies. Now that there is a proper implementation of Collections, it would be great if these extras could be assigned to the collection as a whole. It is possible to work around this by adding these extras as movies (manually editing metadata as necessary) and adding those to the collection but it would be nice if they were identified as extras and shown under the list of movies in the collection.
This could also potentially be used for TV Show extras which cover multiple versions of a show (e.g. Battlestar Galactica or Doctor Who) as the multiple versions could be put in a collection (I currently have the 1963 and 2005 Doctor Who shows in a collection to combine them) and the extras assigned to the collection.
at them moment I’m using a dummy library as a workaround.
I have a collection for the Matrix trilogy. In my dummy library, I’ve assigned that same collection tag to The Matrix Revisited. This way it’ll show up as “related” content.
I’d like to see proper handling instead.
However I suppose it’ll be tricky… as of today there’s no file-based representation for collections at all. Once the team gets this addressed, you could also manage your collections posters/backgrounds that way.
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edit: added an example of my workaround
That’s great! I didn’t even realise this worked across libraries like that, it even appears to work for associating movies and TV shows.
I suggest adding the ability for the server to recognize local media assets for collections.
Think of a collection on a set of DVDs or BR discs. It often comes as one movie per disc with an extra disc for background material (interviews, behind-the-scenes, making-of featurettes, e.g.). Currently, the only way I can think of to have these local media assets recognized by the server is to put them in a folder associated with a specific movie from the collection. But then, they only show up when looking at page for that movie; those local assets will not be displayed on the collection page.
I’d really prefer to put all the movies and extras in a folder named for the collection.
I think this would be a useful enhancement.
I’ve moved this into an existing post on the same subject.
Please use the search before posting duplicate or redundant suggestions in order to avoid distracting votes (even if the individual posts currently have no votes).
Thanks @tom80H for finding the related idea. In my defense, I will stress that I did search first but the relevant post did not come up when searching (but it does now due to my own post). Shame that the original post has not a single vote. At least I had voted for my own.
You can now vote for this one…
I am not much of an extra guy but I do have posters and back grounds for my collections. I currently just have a single folder with all the artwork for all collects based on collection name. I am definitely in favor of a way to properly handle collection data with-in plex in a better manner.
I’d love the ability to add documentaries about film series as extras to a collection rather than the individual films. For example:
Hellraiser collection: Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound Hellraiser II
Alien collection: Memory: The Origins of Alien, The Alien Saga
Back to the Future collection: Back in Time
Nightmare on Elm Street collection: Never Sleep Again
80s Horror collection: In Search of Darkness I, In Search of Darkness II
80s Action collection: In Search of Last Action Heroes
80s SciFi collection: In Search of Tomorrow
It would also be nice if collections could add parodies:
Blazing Saddles to a Western collection
Spaceballs, Fanboys, Blue Harvest to a Star Wars collection
Airplane! to an Airport collection
Dracula! Dead and Loving it to a Dracula collection
Galaxy Quest to a Star Trek collection
Robin Hood Men in Tights to a Robin Hood collection
I know parodies should have their own collection but it I think if I were to watch a film series I might be interested to see a film that parodies them.
