I wanted to see all my collections in a single library. This works on Android and AppleTV4k so it should work on other devices too. You can’t play the just collection from the top level icon is all but open the collection and play any item in it works fine… I don’t want to play all the movies that way anyway.
So I created a “New Library for Movies” named Collections.
Copied a movie file folder from a library tagged in a collection into the Collection’s movie folder.
Refreshed the Collections library.
Add a new poster to the collection item & save.
Now you can delete the movie file leaving the New Collection poster.
Clicking on the Collection poster shows the movie pre play page as expected.
I went through my entire server and copied one movie from a collection into the Collections folder. Added a poster, then deleted the movie and refreshed the Collections library and all my collections are there. The trick is to add a poster to the collection and replace the default since deleting the movie will delete the collection poster.!
Plex Collections Library - File count show 0 in the collections library since there is no movie file in the collections folder. is all.
Collection p-play shows the collection…
Library with items in collections hidden.
