Feature Request - alternative sort for Collections

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I would like to suggest a new property field for a movie for the purpose to sort items within a collection.
An example of the purpose for this is to allow the sorting of the movies to be in story chronological order inside a collection, yet keep the actual title of the movie for searching and ordering in the library.

Two examples.
First is Solo A Star Wars Story. Within the collection I would like this to appear after episode 3. If I change the Sort Title to Star Wars 3.5 I can achieve this, but it is then incorrectly named in the Library.
Second example is Prometheus. I would like this to appear first in the Alien collection which can be achieved by setting the Sort Title to Alien 0.1, but it is now listed under A within the library when I would like it to be listed under P.

This feature request would require (from a user perspective as I know there will be db changes, etc.) a new field in the properties page to allow the entry, a new item in the drop down of the sort field for a collection and the sorting logic within a collection only as it can be ignored by the library.

The benefit would provide a greater experience for collections while maintaining correct ordering in the library itself.

I personally use collections a lot and they appear at the top of the Movie library by adding an asterisk at the start of the Sort Title of the collection. I would greatly appreciate any feedback on this request.

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I see what you’re saying, but I Hide Movies in Collections. In fact, if I see a wayward movie in the movie library I know it’s a stray from a collection and needs to be rounded up - giddyup…lol

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I move Movies in an out of various collections as it suits season or mood. Otherwise everything has a place. At no time is the same Movie listed in two places. The main movie library shows me 62 collections and every movie I have is in one of them.

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That is a different use of collections / libraries I have not thought of before. They seem to be a mixture of related movies, genre and decades.

I use collections for related groups of movies only in addition to the library. I have no problem with a movie appearing in the base library and collections. I used to have separate library for kids movies when they were younger and movies were repeated in those. Personally I prefer to have multiple methods of finding a movie and having the extra sort field for use in collections would enable that further.

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I think your idea lines up with an existing request in the Feature Suggestions forum. You might want to add your comments and vote.

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Thank you.

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