This is one of the main reasons I'm still on XBMC at home and not PMC. It'd be awesome if Plex could organize movie sets into collections like XBMC instead of having, for example, all the James Bonds all over the place.
If anyone is unaware what I am talking about I will screenshot from XBMC when at home.
You can create your own collections by tagging the movies with a Collection tag.
You can create your own collections by tagging the movies with a Collection tag.
I know but would be a lot better if it did this itself, it makes sense to have a collection of movies in an actual collection like XBMC rather than hunting down and manually tagging.
I group movies in folders already. It's very easy to browse by folder and select everything in it and add it to a collection.
I'm not sure I'd want it to happen automatically as there would be too many options. i.e., Spiderman. I group all the Spiderman movies together while I'm sure some people are very careful to keep Spiderman and The Amazing Spiderman completely seperate.
I actually would like something a bit like this but I think it could be done within the existing "collection" scheme.
The ability to easily tag files to add to or create a collection in the web interface would go a very long way toward getting collections to be actually useful for me.
Currently adding movies to a collection is a slow and arduous process involving multiple mouse clicks and removing them is equally slow and tedious.
There could be a collections sub screen where you have direct access to a list of movies and a list of collections where it takes but one or two clicks to add a movie to a collection or remove it from one.
Also collections should be able to bridge libraries.
It's a bit annoying, but couldn't you just use 'sort title' part of metadata and show all Bond movies together? It would be nice if Plex was intelligent enough to do this on its own based on the metadata.
I know but would be a lot better if it did this itself, it makes sense to have a collection of movies in an actual collection like XBMC rather than hunting down and manually tagging.
It does, turn on the auto collections option under the TMDB agent.
I would love it if I could switch to folder view and add an entire folder to a collection, and have Plex automatically tag all the content in the folder with the tags. I have quite a few movie collections and also a variety of music collections. It is very time consuming to open and go to each individual file and add it to a collection. Also, the time I spend building collections is often wasted since the collections I build are not available to other users I have shared content with.
It does, turn on the auto collections option under the TMDB agent.
Yeah, this works so-so at best. I have A LOT of single movie "collections" in my DB.
For instance, before i turned it off, it placed "Cruel Intentions". "Iron Cross", a Jeff Dunham standup video, and "The Flight Before Christmas" in their own "collections".
I have a couple hundred more to that i am cleaning up slowly.
I would love it if I could switch to folder view and add an entire folder to a collection, and have Plex automatically tag all the content in the folder with the tags. I have quite a few movie collections and also a variety of music collections. It is very time consuming to open and go to each individual file and add it to a collection. Also, the time I spend building collections is often wasted since the collections I build are not available to other users I have shared content with.
you dont have to go into each movie and add to collection. you can select each movie and and add all to a collection of your choice at once
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbXfZMAB4O0
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201273953-Collections
I have a large collection including the bond films. One thing I find very useful is the Sort as. I sort all the bond films with "James Bond xxxx" where xxxx is the year. Using the year will put them into order for you. Mush easier than sequential. it also means if you add a new one you don't need to renumber if the new one falls mid set. Do that and using filters etc I do not see the need for collections. Playlists would be the better choice for grouping films not directly related in my opinion. And that's there.
One option i have been using -- ( my brother in law and i like to watch movies back to back, ie Childs play 1,2 3 etc) -- is to set up a separate directory and tell plex that its a new TV series directory. I do links to my movies and relabel them like "ChildsPlay S00E01 Childs Play". Also since there is no meta data i have to add the information for each Movie separately..
I thought since the play lists feature has come out i could use that but i really don't want to mix my media.. Ie movie playlists and music play lists..
+1 for more powerful Collections management.
I like to +1 this.
See my post (pre PlexPass) here: https://forums.plex.tv/topic/121470-feature-request-trilogy-combine-option/#entry723559
Hello guys
I have been reading through a number of posts on this subject. At the moment I cannot see any benefit in right clicking and adding movies to groups; how does this improve browsing when looking for movies? I use the Samsung TV app on my smart TV and all the individual movies still show separately.
Plex guys, it would be great to be able to group collections of movies under one poster in my main 'movies' folder.
So for example, my entire Star Trek set of movies would appear as just one single poster when browsing movies, and if I clicked on it, a sub folder would open up displaying all twelve different movies.
If this can already be done, please let me know; otherwise given the number of times this is mentioned in various posts, can it be considered?
Cheers as ever
Ian
Plex guys, it would be great to be able to group collections of movies under one poster in my main 'movies' folder.So for example, my entire Star Trek set of movies would appear as just one single poster when browsing movies, and if I clicked on it, a sub folder would open up displaying all twelve different movies.
This is what I've been wanting as well, had this option in XBMC before I moved to plex and I've been missing it ever since. Some of us have A LOT of movies and anything that can be done to cut down on the visible movies is nice. In XBMC this can be toggled on or off, so people who don't want this view don't need to use it, but those who do can.
And this would also address the other issue I raised in the ask a ninja section, on how to differentiate between 2D and 3D films that are the same resolution. When Plex combines multiple versionns under the same poster, it only offers the resolution and sound spec to help you choose which version to play; useless if both files have the sam,e resolution and sound.
Plex guys; this type feature request has been raised for over 3 years with endless +1s!
https://forums.plex.tv/topic/24290-group-movies-like-indiana-jones-saw-etc/
Any way you can look into this area?
Cheers
Ian
I’m noticing the last post here was 2 years ago… Is there an Update for this?
I invested a lot of $$ in the TTC lecture series (about 25 in all). I would like to put them all in a “TTC” folder with each course in a sub-folder. e.g., “Big History”, with all its 48 lectures there. However, when I navigate to the TTC folder I get ALL the lectures for all courses intermixed. I would just like to be able to select a course and see all the lectures for that course. Any workarounds???
Use a “Home Movies” library, Set the directory structure exactly as you want and browse for the “lectures” using browse by folders. Problem solved.
