Group Movies like Indiana Jones, Saw, etc...

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@Xhaka said:
I’m just curious… Why do you feel its common sense to manually sort through a couple of thousand movies to implement what is a very basic feature of every other mainstream media centre/server software?

I think everyone can agree that Plex is always a work-around in progress to some degree. 1000s of movies in a library is crazy-medicine when you have to deal with two horizontal rows that run from my house to the Moon. Plex is so proud of those two horizontal rows of tiny posters they don’t care how many thousands of users hate them. That’s what we have and that’s all we’ll have. ■■■■■ about it and move on. The ‘work-around’ for that shortcoming is to have smaller libraries and more of them so setting up a library for my Sci-Fi Sets was a no-brainer and navigating the 107 Movies in my Sci-Fi Sets library is pretty easy.

@JuiceWSA said:

I’m about ready to add that next HDD and when that happens another library - ‘1980 - 2000 Sets’ will be created and investigations conclude it will contain about 120 items to start, opening the door for the next ‘Sets’ Library (2001 - 2020 Sets) at some point - and if I live that long.

Hey, it’s up to me to work around that which Plex clearly couldn’t give a chubby rat’s bee-hind about and considering people have been whining about this ‘Boxed Sets’ issue for 10 years resulting in ‘Crickets’ it’s on me to find some work around that works and mine is working out fine.

I think it’s probably time for others to come to that same conclusion and start inventing a work around that works for them instead of curling up in a ball and weeping about something Plex CLEARLY is unwilling - or unable - to do anything about.

Just do like I do and ■■■■■ about it whenever necessary, but also work on a work-around you can live with 'cause it’s likely never going to change, but if it ever does, and if History is any indication of what would likely happen if it does, Plex wouldn’t ask for user input, or ignore it (the aforementioned Dueling Banjos Horizontal Hell - users told them it would suck and guess what - it sucks), developing a much more horrific method than the work around we’re using now.

Be careful what you wish for - you might get it.

:slight_smile:

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@Gdr56 said:
So why have you waited so long to create your own Collection, now your libraries are in thousands? To me it means collecting is not your underlying interest but likes the suggestions given by software.

I haven’t waited. I simply switched to PKC as mentioned.

@JuiceWSA said:
I think everyone can agree that Plex is always a work-around in progress to some degree. 1000s of movies in a library is crazy-medicine when you have to deal with two horizontal rows that run from my house to the Moon. Plex is so proud of those two horizontal rows of tiny posters they don’t care how many thousands of users hate them.

I couldn’t agree more on any of this. Personally my own work around was simply switch to a client that offers me what I need. Be it a grouped collection or a genre filter that’s only ever one button press away.

So you’re saying that you have actually made separate libraries for your sets and further more done this by genre, or am I misunderstanding?

Anyways personally I’m no longer in the camp that a set must consist of a stacked icon for each set. In fact actually I would have settled for playlists to be available per library section whist still maintaining the current ‘master’ playlist. In theory then we could go a step further and create a Marvel playlist (or other show/movie crossover) that plays all the shows in chronological order but then plays the relevant movie at the correct point.

Now I am dreaming. :smiley:

Thanks for the insight guys.

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So why all the objections, you obvious don’t give a dam

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@Gdr56 said:
So why all the objections, you obvious don’t give a dam

Where do you conclude either of those comments? Of course I give a damn. PKC is… or at least maybe a temporary means to an end until Plex get their act together on this, their shocking flagship UI (as @JuiceWSA mentions) amongst other things.

Going back to this comment you made.
“To me it means collecting is not your underlying interest” taking its full Wikipedia definition to it’s fullest!
Then oddly no… I’m obviously some kind of freak who prefers watching their media to organizing it.

You’re happy with the way you have things organized and that’s fine. More power to you.

But you’re here posting in a thread requesting something that you don’t personally need so to ask you the same question… So why all the objections, you obvious don’t give a damn?

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@Xhaka said:
So you’re saying that you have actually made separate libraries for your sets and further more done this by genre, or am I misunderstanding?

Of course I have. In order to co-exist with these Turd-Ball Apps I have to try to make it as easy to find something as is possible - or just use that ‘In-Your-Face’, Obtrusive, Over The Top, Useless, Hazard to Navigation, Suggestion System they have built in to EVERYTHING. More by Clem KaddidleHopper, for instance. Who TF is Clem KaddidleHopper? Hell if I know, but Plex thinks s*** like that is important because there’s no way for me turn ‘Discovery’ off, so I have to work around it and drill into those Dueling Banjos of HellSpawn Demons’ Horizontal Lists of posters I can’t read in an over and under extravaganza of pain and suffering.

The fewer items I have in any given Library, the quicker I can find something to watch.

Plex’s Apps are so bad it’s almost impossible to find anything. They climbed to the Pinnacle of Form over Function, much higher than their mentors and heros, Netflix and Amazon. Plex built a radio tower on that pinnacle of uselessness and climbed to the top of that to take the Gold!

I have a LOT of Sci-Fi Sets and like to keep those separate and soon I will have at least one more Boxed Sets/Sequels Library - if I live long enough I’ll have two, or more depending what I invent that makes sense to me. Plex is NO help. If I don’t do something that makes sense to me, what makes sense to Plex makes no sense to anybody.

Users are like the Clown over the tub of water at the Carnival and Plex is there to just keep chucking softballs at the target-bit for big laughs when the Clown goes in. Plex develops for Plex. User input is of no value to Plex and gets in the way of what they have already decided works best (for Plex).

This makes sense to me - until it doesn’t - then I can do something else, because this, at least I do have control over. It’s not like I can go anywhere. Sadly Plex is THE BEST Media Server solution and even sadder is the fact they couldn’t develop a good user app if you held a bazooka to their heads.

Hey, we can wish for change, hope it changes and want it to change, but we better be doing something so we can live with it 'cause it’s never going to change.

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Fair enough.
I haven’t intended to question or criticize either you or @Gdr56
Only looked for insight in how you get around some of the numerous Plex failings.
Thanks again.

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@HitsVille said:
Fair enough.
I haven’t intended to question or criticize either you or @Gdr56
Only looked for insight in how you get around some of the numerous Plex failings.
Thanks again.

I know. I’m not offended.

Sometimes when I’m bitching about something Plex does an innocent bystander catches a bit of the Fecal-Bomb Shrapnel. S*** Happens. Wash up and get over it is my motto. Don’t play with the big kids if you don’t wanna take some damage.

:slight_smile:

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@HitsVille said:
Fair enough.
I haven’t intended to question or criticize either you or @Gdr56
Only looked for insight in how you get around some of the numerous Plex failings.
Thanks again.

I’m bunked down with 50 Cal ready and armed, tripwires and booby traps set. So bring it on, Plex Ridge was nothing today.
I’ve got Mel Gibson and we definitely take no prisoners, choppers about to land must go under heavy fire

Cheers

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Emby does this well, wish plex did too, because the rest of emby is ■■■■.

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I wouldn’t call it ****. It has some nice features. But as a whole it’s just not as polished and usable as Plex is.

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The bottom line - for me anyway - is that there’s nowhere to go.

It’s like being a prisoner in a prison with no walls, guards, dogs, fences, etc in a land so inhospitable (like Mars, for instance) that if you even try to escape you WILL die. Escapees will be back by dinner time.

Better to embrace ‘work-arounds’ than to brave Mars in a T-Shirt and Flip-Flops.

:slight_smile:

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@cayars said:
I wouldn’t call it ****. It has some nice features. But as a whole it’s just not as polished and usable as Plex is.

We won’t be going into the different grades of Crap now, my plumbers license was revoked. Please… I will say “the stone age” maybe a fairer assessment.

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So… when are we getting this ? Cmon Plex…!!

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What’s mind-boggling is that this feature already exists! TV shows are allowed to contain multiple episodes within multiple seasons so why can’t a Movie Franchise also be contained in a single thumbnail? Digging deeper, It’s not a matter of writing the right agent/scanner as Plex treats movies and shows in a fundamentally different way.

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I own every single Bond movie, but have not added them into my Plex server for this very reason. The delay in getting this fundamental, basic functionality is mind-boggling.

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Bond Fan - Couldn’t Wait - Invented Suitable Method - Works:

Not a perfect solution, but I am watching Jimmy B-Dog when the need strikes.

:slight_smile:

Most of the time users need to find the work around because Plex’s need to fill user’s requests isn’t very high on the list of things to do (read: not even on the list).

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@JuiceWSA said:

… (read: not even on the list).

That’s disappointing. You know if they made this a premium feature I might consider getting Plex Pass. hint hint, wink wink.

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We have been discussing this feature for the last 6 years in this thread, and its been in the ‘feature list’ forever. Its certainly a feature I would rate higher than Music or DVR (I have Sonos and Sky for that) and yet nothing.
Forums are supposed to be a conduit between the customers and developers, and I appreciate that while not every feature can be coded, features that have been a constant in the list of requests for the last 6 years should at least be acknowledged, otherwise forums are nothing but a space for people to moan, plead, show off and sometimes help each other.

Come on Plex, chime it at least?

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Well this is disappointing that this feature isn’t here. I just got the entire Land Before Time collection for my daughter. So now I’ve got 14 movies cluttering the library.

It sure would be nice to be able to group them together, like a TV series/season. But that’s nothing that hasn’t been said a hundred times already. Just thought I’d add one more user to the list of people who want/need this feature.

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14 movies cluttering… I just downloaded the ENTIRE Abbott And Costello movie collection… 31 movies… yea i reallyyyyyyy need this feature please lol!