I noticed many wanted this. How come it's not in? It feels like a fairly basic thing.
Media Browser (which I prefer to use for my Media Center) has it.
Imagine having all James Bond Movies only take up 1 slot menu....and 7 Saw movies also 1 slot. Much more organized.
I noticed many wanted this. How come it's not in? It feels like a fairly basic thing.
Media Browser (which I prefer to use for my Media Center) has it.Imagine having all James Bond Movies only take up 1 slot menu....and 7 Saw movies also 1 slot. Much more organized.
You can do this yourself by making Collections.
You can do this yourself by making Collections.
This is what im doing.. For instance i have all the Child's Play movies.. I make a collection call "child's play" and add them all to it..
I think it would be useful though of some way of telling Plex that the movie belongs to a series, and it auto adds any other movies in the series to the collection.
I get what you're saying but that would mean it would would need a database to match against for collections.
For instance, while the Harry Potter series might be easy (because the name Harry Potter is in the name of each movie), The Avenger series would be impossible as there really is no common thread for ALL the movies. I think that goes with all the Bond movies also (the official names of the Bond movies do not include the name James Bond).
It would need to check every movie added to your collection against a database to see if it also is included in the collection(s) you have created AND the datsbase would need to be kept up to date, else a new movie in the franchise would be missed.
Good idea, just not sure how easy it would be to implement.
(Of course I could be totally off base on how hard/easy this would be to happen.)
Would love this as well but how would it deal with crossover titles like Freddy vs. Jason or Aliens vs. Predator?
I get what you're saying but that would mean it would would need a database to match against for collections.
For instance, while the Harry Potter series might be easy (because the name Harry Potter is in the name of each movie), The Avenger series would be impossible as there really is no common thread for ALL the movies. I think that goes with all the Bond movies also (the official names of the Bond movies do not include the name James Bond).
It would need to check every movie added to your collection against a database to see if it also is included in the collection(s) you have created AND the datsbase would need to be kept up to date, else a new movie in the franchise would be missed.
Good idea, just not sure how easy it would be to implement.
(Of course I could be totally off base on how hard/easy this would be to happen.)
Don't have to match collections.
I can manually add them in collections (which I have done)...I jsut want them to be grouped after them too.
For instance. I edit metadata for Harry Potter 1 and 2 by typing "Harry Potter" in collections field.
I click Save and when I go to movies section I see all movies as usual except instead of Harry Potter 1 and 2 it says just "Harry Potter" and I enter that.,..and voila...there's both movies.
(And I can click the picture and manually put a nice pic instead of a frame. Not a big deal making the collections manually..I mean...It's not like you have to set them up often.
Like X-Men, Avengers etc...you can just keep adding movies to them as new are released.
Would love this as well but how would it deal with crossover titles like Freddy vs. Jason or Aliens vs. Predator?
I guess you'd have to pick one.. :P
Don't think there are that many crossovers that it would really be worth it to come up with some complicated solution.
Unless you use tags somehow.
That way you could mark all the jason and freddy movies with a tag...except for the crossover which get 2 tags. :P (And thus show up when filter whichever)
Unless you oculd add a movie to 2 collections...then they would show up in both.
Early 2021 clean-up: implemented (collections)
