I would love to see this. I am using collections for now, but still see as many movies listed under movies as I have whereas I'd want to only see one parent. Also, if you create a sort order for movies that are not titled similarly, then your library can appear out of order. eg: Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, etc.
The XBMC collection functionality already does this by default. It uses the correct movie sort order in the collections folders instead of just sorting by alphabetic title.
+1 for this, I would love inline movie collections, would make scrolling through movies a lot quicker as I have a lot of collections, Harry potter, bond, aliens, Rambo, twilight and more but just the ones I’ve mentioned would turn 40+ List items into 5 that would then link to their own list.
To enable automatic collection on new movies added go to Settings, Plex Media Server, Agents, Movies then find the The Movie Database agent and click on the gears icon, make sure Use collection info from The Movie Database is enabled
I'm having a situation I interpreted as a bug where I'm getting collections made each time I add a movie. The collection name that gets made is whatever that DVDs volume name was, despite what I might have named the mp4 file. But it only happens with movies I rip using DVDfab, and not for movies ripped with Handbrake. I looked at this setting, and for the other agents as well, and have that option disabled. Any other idea why I might be seeing this behavior?
@wwarren - Theory - DVDFab is adding metadata to the file that handbrake isn't. (obvious, I know). I'm betting the media scanner of Plex attempts to use some of that metadata instead of fully using the download scanner. (Or, you've got the library type or scanner set to 'personal video', and it will only use internal file scan data)
To verify, try the open source app called MediaInfo, it's cross platform.
It will tell you everything about a media file you never wanted to know, and quite a bit that you probably did.
http://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
As for an application to 'edit' that data without damaging the file, I've no experience.
You may want to look in settings of DVDFab to see if you can adjust what the internal file metadata gets named/etc.
Yes, this feature is one of the things I miss the most from using XBMC for quite a long time before switching to Plex.
Thanks!
A whole bunch of people want this feature, yet it doesn't seem to be implemented for some reason. I would also like to have a bunch of movies stacked under one icon like I do in XBMC. While searching for this feature I found a thread dating back to 2011 for people requesting this feature ([here](https://forums.plex.tv/topic/24290-group-movies-like-indiana-jones-saw-etc/page-1)), which I have cross-linked with this thread.
I would definitely love for this feature to be implemented.
I'm surprised this hasn't been tagged as popular request yet.
I'm surprised this hasn't been tagged as popular request yet.
For Popular tag we need i think 50 likes, some missing what i see. :)
I'm having a situation I interpreted as a bug where I'm getting collections made each time I add a movie. The collection name that gets made is whatever that DVDs volume name was, despite what I might have named the mp4 file. But it only happens with movies I rip using DVDfab, and not for movies ripped with Handbrake. I looked at this setting, and for the other agents as well, and have that option disabled. Any other idea why I might be seeing this behavior?
This is because overzealous people editing entries on TMDB have added a series for everything. This is making the feature less than pointless because we now have series for single movies. The fault is not in the agent, but in the TMDB data.
A whole bunch of people want this feature, yet it doesn't seem to be implemented for some reason. I would also like to have a bunch of movies stacked under one icon like I do in XBMC. While searching for this feature I found a thread dating back to 2011 for people requesting this feature (here), which I have cross-linked with this thread.
I would definitely love for this feature to be implemented.
While I would also love for this feature to be implemented, the developers have a lot of feature requests and tasks on their list and development resources are not infinite. It's a question of time and priorities i suppose.
This is because overzealous people editing entries on TMDB have added a series for everything. This is making the feature less than pointless because we now have series for single movies. The fault is not in the agent, but in the TMDB data.
TMDB may appear to have SERIES set for single movies but only those where another movie in that series is announced, in development, or in the process of shooting.
Thor would show up as a series before the sequel actually came out.
Same with Hunger Games.
XBMC solves this by only showing as a series when one or more movies are members of the same set and are present in the Library.
For Popular tag we need i think 50 likes, some missing what i see. :)
Mine was a 52nd like :)
TMDB may appear to have SERIES set for single movies but only those where another movie in that series is announced, in development, or in the process of shooting.
Thor would show up as a series before the sequel actually came out.
Same with Hunger Games.
XBMC solves this by only showing as a series when one or more movies are members of the same set and are present in the Library.
I'd love to agree but cannot. There are many movies in TMDB with a series where there was and will only be 1 theatrical release. Some of these have straight-to-DVD movies and many include DVD extras as members of a series. This leaves many collections of 1 in the database. It's not the fault of Plex, but the data in TMDB is far from pristine when it comes to series.
I'd love to agree but cannot. There are many movies in TMDB with a series where there was and will only be 1 theatrical release. Some of these have straight-to-DVD movies and many include DVD extras as members of a series. This leaves many collections of 1 in the database. It's not the fault of Plex, but the data in TMDB is far from pristine when it comes to series.
Please name these series because They are rare indeed!
First time poster long time lurker, but I would not just +1 this but add, even if we had the capability to manually add our own metadata to display via collection.xml or something (mcm) and add an image (folder.jpg or something) it would be nice to have a view. The collections view is nice, but it would be an added benefit to control images rendered so even with workaround of adding single movies, it could be mixed. I am a dev but Python is relatively new but perhaps maybe we could make a skin for this? Just asking and perhaps this functionality already exists.
Thanks!
Please name these series because They are rare indeed!
Despicable Me had a collection with one of the DVD extras and the original movie well before the second theatrical release was included.
Total Recall, like a number of other remakes, is listed as a collection including the original movie and the vastly unrelated remake.
The movie 9 is listed in a collection only including itself.
Despicable Me had a collection with one of the DVD extras and the original movie well before the second theatrical release was included.
Total Recall, like a number of other remakes, is listed as a collection including the original movie and the vastly unrelated remake.
The movie 9 is listed in a collection only including itself.
So there was a second release...wasn't there....
And as I pointed out before...XBMC seems to have no problem avoiding the second click when only one movie of a collection is available in the Library.
You can make all the excuses you want but XBMC doesn't seem to have a problem with them.
As for your asking about Movies as part of TWO collections...Thats an easy fix...
Simply make the collection part of the Database the same as the Tags. Then you can have multiple tags and the movie info can display properly in both collections.
But I do find it odd how someone so against collections could need a Movie to be in two collections at once.
TMDB doesn't support them but it will support User created Lists. Which the end user could select which collection they want it to be a part of and if what I suggested above was implemented you could select both if you wanted.
Don’t see why this hasn’t been added yet?? It’s a perfectly acceptable and quite high priority request.
If people are using plex now adding only media they have then surely in the age of sequels (lets face it they make them for every movie these day (exgaerating a little but still)) will Weill get large libraries with a lot a sequels. It might be ok for some like despicable me and despicable me 2 but when I’m looking to watch the James Bond films in order it’s a nightmare, they get listed as ‘tomorrow never dies’ and ‘dr no’ etc leaving them all over. The collection feature present, where we can manually create collections and order by date released is ok but again we have taken a step back in time, Plex is easy to use and largely automagic and without auto collections it becomes a pain to use.
I’m not a normal user and I have got a very large library but my kids movie section only has a couple of hundred and even that’s irksome for collections, not only to find related movies but also the amount of scrolling, I’ve got 4 ‘3 ninja’ movies that one kid loves the other doesn’t, that’s 3 extra scrolls to skip past them without inline collections, not a major deal but start multiplying it by the number of related movies, crocodile Dundee, Harry potter, Star Wars, despicable me, twilight, teenage mutant ninja turtles, to name a few I have then it gets annoying to know its possible but it’s down on the list
Just checked my kids section and out of 380 movies 171 are part of collections. There’s 53 collections and the biggest is 13 movies of land before time. So just under half my kids library could be condensed from 171 list items to 53!!
I hate to think how many my section has!
But I do find it odd how someone so against collections could need a Movie to be in two collections at once.
TMDB doesn't support them but it will support User created Lists. Which the end user could select which collection they want it to be a part of and if what I suggested above was implemented you could select both if you wanted.
I do use collections. I have the whole time. If you read back you will note that my disagreement is that the view you describe should be the default. The collections view works perfectly well. The view you want would work fine. I just do not want it to be the default because there may be some issues with its performance.
