+1
I’m new to Plex and this seems like a rather bizarre omission, especially given that it already knows how to do this for TV series.
I came also from Emby to Plex. But I am missing Collection handling as well. Emby is doing it really good.
Sure, collections are handled by imdb, but you cannot just see them all with posters etc. imdb has also nice collections posters.
Also if i search for a movie, and it shows the movie collection in results. is has also no poster! looks bad - like an incomplete setup…
2nd, i am missing 3d tagging in the video infos. just as an 3D logo like 1080p but this another topic.
This thread had been around for 6+ years. any idea why this isn’t enabled yet? I used XBMC/KODI for years and this was available. Seems like an odd thing to miss for so long.
@sprintgeek said:
This thread had been around for 6+ years. any idea why this isn’t enabled yet? I used XBMC/KODI for years and this was available. Seems like an odd thing to miss for so long.
It is simple. Plex does not consider it important. It does not matter what we, users, want. If our wants happen to be the same as what Plex wants the it happens. If what we want does not fit Plex’s grand plan then we will never see it happen.
There are many equally obvious needs that Plex has equally ignored over the last few years while they have implemented many fluff “features” that are not really needed for the core functionality of Plex.
I do not use collections in any form in Plex. I just use the sort field to get related movies grouped together. In some ways I do not miss collections but, if they were easier to use and if the default ones actually made sense then I migh use them more.
I can’t believe this topic is so old and this deficit hasn’t been handled yet.
Really annoying to see eight different Harry Potter posters. A lot James Bond Posters. LOTR, Saw… My movie folder seems very cluttered.
I seriously think, this little, easy to implement, feature, would benefit Plex a lot.
To anyone who has been here on these forums for any time, it should be exceedingly obvious why this isn’t implemented yet. Collections can’t be easily monetized. Not like collecting our user information, news feeds or other things can be, at least.
Implementing features the user community requests isn’t a priority. And hasn’t been for a long time with Plex. It’s all about how they can make a buck from the user community. Not about making Plex better.
How many users want news feeds? How many users want their usage stats collected and turned into advertising within their client apps? But that is where the development time is getting spent… 
Losing a lot of the old time posters lately. We know where they are going. And we know why…
i highly disagree with that Mike.
User stats allow them to see what’s going on and how the servers are being used across the board from power users to the trivial Plex admin. Some of this gathering of data is very important for things like ABR which allows them to see how things are working and what needs adjusting to give us a better product.
Look at DVR and Live TV as recent additions to Plex. These are not services that are monetized and I don’t think your accusation is fair in the least. Not only does it not put additional money in their pocket but it costs them money since they have to license and deliver EPG data.
The News service is something completely “foreign” to most of us on a media server. It will take getting used to for many. Some people like it right out of the gate and others hate it. It’s like this for many features. We should have had the ability to turn it off from the get go but that’s water under the bridge and being fixed.
There is a lot of new stuff that require significant developer time that weren’t specifically asked for by users except for a few power users such as myself. Take ABR for example. This wasn’t a popular requested feature but it can be a game changer for Plex and may users. Having clients that can fine tune the pipe being used is huge. Without the stat/data gathering this would have been exceedingly hard to do. Same with some of the other streaming brain functions coming into play more and more.
Plex invests a lot of time making the basics of Plex better all the time, sometimes they need data to base these decisions on.
For me personally seeing an add now and again when using Plex for data not on my system (if turned on) isn’t a big deal to me. If it helps their bottom line I’m OK with that. If they wanted to come out with a free movie library we could turn on or off similar to Crackle or TubiTV that had adds to support the service I’d be ok with that as well as long as I can control it.
Some of the things like New allows brand new systems with very limited content to have some content that is dynamic. Personally I’d like to see weather added as well. Most devices have a weather app but in order to access it you have to leave Plex, fire up the app, close it and go back into Plex. Being able to access this content easier from inside Plex if the admin wants it is great as far as I’m concerned.
Carlo
Hi Cayars,
When I bought a Plex subscription, I didn’t do it because of the news or weather features. I did it because I thought that Plex was the best solution to organize my movies and shows and to stream them to all family devices.
The promise is almost here but movies franchises/series/multilogies are not well implemented.
Those things are getting more and more common these days.
My family feels confused when they browse the Plex library.
For example, James Bond movies are spread all other the place.
I would love to have a naming convention to group those films together. I would get one “James Bond” entry in my library and a sub page to list the movies.
This would close this 13 pages, 6 years old thread and the numerous one that have the same subject 
The ‘Creative’ Plex User can usually find the work around:
Make a few Libraries (you probably don’t need 26), make use of The Sort Title Field and the work around is born. The work around that works actually - and quite well.
Note: Star Trek Nemesis out of sequence (upgraded my copy recently - didn’t reset Sort Title Field):
Fixed - in 5 seconds - snapped into place:
You can just cry about it, but apparently tears won’t make Plex move any faster towards that solution everyone seems to need.
That’s a great way to organize your Movies, but it probably works against you with the new UI that is starting to roll out via PMP and xBox due to it only showing one Movie library at a time.
Carlo
Canceled my subscription over this, if Plex is reading. Have fun in Hululand.
@cayars said:
That’s a great way to organize your Movies, but it probably works against you with the new UI that is starting to roll out via PMP and xBox due to it only showing one Movie library at a time.Carlo
You betcha, Carlo
That’s one of the ‘benefits’ of not being a PlexPasser… I don’t yet have to deal with that nightmare, but I did see it briefly when they made the mistake of letting it loose from it’s cage - before knocking it out with a tranquilizer dart and recapturing it.
(I’m now on the public release again - awaiting the day they release this murderous beast for all)
The good news is in that time while it was ‘on the loose’ I found out controlling it with my phone app was a workable ‘work around’. In fact, I have found the ‘phone app trick’ to be working well - once I get it in the hated ‘TV View’. I’d rather use the Plexweb View - but… it is what it is… sadly.
I guess, eventually, Plex will make it so hard to use Plex, it will be easier to just go back to the Pre-Plex days. More good news is that Plex induced naming and structuring might make a return to those times better - but I hope we don’t have to find out soon:
Yea, the way we both have things organized on disc we could get by with any dumb client that basically gives you a tree view. No meta data but there is worse things. 
Of course the Plex naming convention works perfectly with Emby and Kodi as well. I actually still have an old boxee box that will play everything I have except the 4K material and have the WD TV Live Plus boxes that still work pretty well too.
The Plex Server is slick for being to get to your media when not in your home or when using a poor wifi connection or tablet or something that can’t handle high bit rates, etc.
I prefer the plex web view in PMP myself. Easy like the web browser but has the additional codec support.
It’s almost as if the developers of Plex don’t use Plex.
I tried out Emby, and once I discovered how Collections are implemented in Emby, it really made me upset that Plex doesn’t have this feature.
In Plex I have my library’s set up similar to JuiceWSA, but with the new PMP layout, especially on Xbox, there’s no way I can even use the app.
Emby Isn’t perfect, but it’s a whole let better than this.
I’ve been trying to achieve this myself but nothing works. Seems like something that should have been added a long time ago, even before this six year old thread started.
I love Plex and have been happy to support it as it does the job well but I don’t understand why things like this are not being added when we, the users and people supporting it are requesting it. I was happy to wait but nothing in six years doesn’t seem right. I don’t expect all requests to be acted upon but this is something Plex should be doing since it was designed for things like this.
If this can be implemented then you could potentially fix two issues at once. Not only do I and a lot of Plex users want to group “collections” of films / movies but we also would like a documentary section that can display both TV items and Film items in the same section / category.
While I’m here, a few other things I think would make a great addition to Plex:
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Comic-book / Book section. - Since all other media is stored here with the ability to view / play on multiple devices and with the ability to “pick up” where you last played, a book section makes perfect sense to me. Then Plex would be the only media viewer I’d ever need. (I’d be happy to try and build this if you would let me??)
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What The Movie. - Before Plex was around, I used XBMC. XBMC was and is very powerful and has some great functions, one of these was a game. I questioned a game being there at first but it turned out my friends and I loved it after watching a film.It’s a simple but effective game that will select one movie from your collection and display one random screenshot of that film which you then have to figure out / guess. Some were easy, some impossible but it was a great addition and just another thing that got me into software like XBMC and Plex.
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Categories / Grouping. - Another thing I liked about XBMC was the categories and grouping. Plex has something similar on Plex for PlayStation4 where you would select your Movies and then it would display some of the categories such as “Comedy”, “Recently Added” and “More from…whatever actor /director…” but this should be an all Plex platforms. It doesn’t seem like much but when you have a large library it’s great to have things broken down or suggested as picking a film to watch can take a while sometimes. And I know I can filter my collection but it’s not the same. Idealy you need one page after you select “Movies” or “TV” that has a handful of options like you do on the PS4 app. This page should also be an option to add and not made default as I might not want it on TV for example.
Basically, as much as I love you guys working on new things and adding Live TV and a News sections and whatever else you can think of. You should probably be taking care of things like this first! Especially when you have a six year old thread that is still active and you haven’t responded. If things are taking too much time or money then let some of us start helping. You have a smart and loyal community wanting to make Plex better for everyone, just let us.
Thank you.
Every suggestion in this thread won’t work on the new ultra-crap Xbox app. So we’re still stuck with junk.
We’re still waiting Plex devs!! Kodi etc have done this for years and it’s implemented in the TV shows section so it can’t be that hard to put something in place for movie collections.
This is a game changer, considering moving away from Plex (despite having a plex pass) as my library is becoming un-browsable due to not being able to separate out the collections and having to browse all media in the films section.
Plex don’t read these do they??
No, they just click on them so they aren’t new.
@“Steve Mac” said:
Plex don’t read these do they??
No. They say that we constitute only less than 5% of their user base, and so our opinions of and desires for the software are fringe at best.
Nevermind that we ourselves (and those on reddit/r/plex) are the only ones who actually are capable of communicating active feedback to them; that those who use the software without communicating at all to the devs give extremely little in the way of how they feel the software could be improved—either per se or or by comparison to us (as they only give metrics on their use of what features are currently available, be they broken or otherwise); and the fact that many features we ask for are features long since available on rival software (like Emby).
They cite things, like the update to News that allows us to disable it, as evidence that they do indeed take our opinions into account, but I think there were probably more factors in that decision than just our bellyaching that they don’t admit to; and anyway it seems more the exception than the rule, or at least cherry-picking examples to suit their position.
