Plex is a powerful media server but sometimes I think that developers throw features in just for the sake of having more features. My issue is with automatic collection list generation which basically creates a collection for each individual movie. Can someone tell me what’s the point? I already can see all the movies, I don’t need another way of looking individually at them. I wouldn’t mind organizing my titles into collections but then, again, that would be a feature of a “Playlist” which in my mind is more powerful as it plays automatically all its content. Then, again, you have “Sharing” label which is basically the same as the other two. What’s the point, again?
Back to my original question, though. How do I disable automatic collection generation? I thought I already disabled it by unchecking “Use collection info from The Movie Database” option but it does not seem to work. If I run “Fix incorrect Match” option on a movie, the collection for that individual movie gets “auto magically” generated. What gives?
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The only collections I have are the ones I created (a total of six). I did have an issue with the ridiculous collections generated by using the Movie Database agent and having “Use collection info from The Movie Database” enabled. I did get rid of all those collections - disabled that option and removed the collections via the database - I don’t know if simply trying fix incorrect match will remedy. I now use the Plex Movie agent.
I, too, only have a few collections after cleaning up the crap that came from The Movie Database and disabling any use of automatically generating collections.
To clean out the junk I loaded the Plex database (Note: Do this on a backup copy of the database adn keep a known good copy in reserve) into a database editor and ran the following command on the database:
DELETE FROM tags WHERE tag_type = 2;
That removes all collection info and you can then generate any collections you want.
I really do not use collections much but I have found that it is a convenance that allows me to get around the fact that the Roku can only group by one genre at a time. That is I can create multi-genre collection and then use it when I want to browse all my science fiction and horror movies at the same time.
At least for the MovieDB.org:
