@AsphyxNYC said:
Yep…Godzilla collection (Japanese AND English Versions). James Bond, ShawBros, Mel Brooks Collection, Stanley Kubrick Collection, Scorsese Collection…Need more examples? Times that by as many collections as you can fit in 20 TB of hard drive space…I get what you are saying but is this a media server or just a consumer hobby server that shouldn’t be used by SERIOUS Media Enthusiasts?
I have Multiple HTPC that don’t seem to have any problem doing what we ask.
If all I wanted was to group and see collections I would simply Filter them the way plex provides…Since you could not give me a way to find one of those movies without making a COLLECTION COLLECTION in Plex (which means do the plex dance when I want to move a one off into a Collection) I rest my case here…
Seeing Collections as a flat list is easy!
Just set the filter to COLLECTION.Find something not in a collection on a browse listing with 20 TBs of Movies being listed.
Thats the challenge here!
OK, I misread what you wrote above. I thought you had one single collection that had almost 20 TB in it. You have 20 TB full of probably hundreds/thousands of collections. Got it. Still don’t see your problem. If you KNOW the movie you want you don’t have to browse through the list, just type the first few letters. Know the genre, search by genre. Know the year, search the year. Know the actor, search by actor. All these methods will bring you a short list very quickly. All you seem to want is a collection of movies NOT in a collection … is that right? So you can scroll through those 200 movies? Just create a collection called “OTHER” or “MISC” or something like that and browse that collection. It’s pretty darn easy to create your own collection. If you gave me your list of 200 movies I could make a MISC collection in about an hour or two. Then you are done. You are right that my proposed solution would not automate the creation of a ‘no-collection’ collection. Never thought I’d ever want that and really don’t see the need for it given the dozens of ways of searching the library - not to mention creating a separate library just for them as I suggested.
