I’ve been looking through the forums about this issue which I’d consider a bug and have read now why this behavior occurs and why it isn’t a bug since it is behaving the way it was programmed to behave. However I’d like to propose this as a feature request since I can’t think of single scenario where anyone would want a movie they have split (maybe their are other reasons to split a movie that I don’t know about), however the only scenario I’ve encountered is when I have a movie that has multiple versions (i.e. extended, directors cut, theatrical, etc…) So in that case when I split a movie I can’t ever see anyone wanting to keep those two versions in sync from either the Watched/not watched status and even more I can’t ever see a scenario where someone would want to start say a extended version and stop it at 35:00 minutes into the movie and pick up 35:00 minutes into a different version as you wouldn’t be at the same place in the film most likely.
So the proposed feature would be that when a movie is split it becomes a separate object that is tracked separately from the film it was split from.
Yes I read about how you can manipulate a work around by changing one version to use a different database for it’s metadata, however the fact that people have gone to the trouble of creating a “work-arounds” just further emphasizes the need to fix this behavior so that it performs the way people would expect it to perform instead of creating workarounds so that the expected behavior can be achieved. Also that workaround only works if you only have 2 versions of the film.
i just don’t let it scan at all, so the x-men rogue cut is completley different movie from the main x-men days of future past, but it also doesnt get the trailer and movie posters.
That is yet another work around however, the purpose of this post is to be a future feature request so that split movies behave in a manor in which your average user would expect them to rather than have to use a work around to accomplish the functionality that a typical person would expect to occur normally without having to jump through work around hoops and perform functions manually.
I guess that is my entire point, everyone has had to live with this because of the way split movies currently function instead of addressing the real issue which is when you split a movie from an existing movie you do so because you no longer want it to be “joined” or connected to the movie you are splitting it from after the split, otherwise you wouldn’t bother to split them in the first place. I also understand it isn’t a simple trivial task to throw in in the next update it is something that will require some thought in creating a method to make this function without breaking other functionality however given what the Plex team has accomplished over the years it is something they can do, it is just a matter of prioritizing this as an issue to be address in a future update.
