Please implement this, PleX. It's only a matter of time before Media Browser 3 works out all their bugs and they already have this AND user access controls.
One way around this would be to put your James Bond or Halloween movies in their own folders within your Movie directory and then you can filter "By Folder" and this would allow you to group them.
One way around this would be to put your James Bond or Halloween movies in their own folders within your Movie directory and then you can filter "By Folder" and this would allow you to group them.
I think we already passed the age when we care about where the data itself is. That's why Google worth $400B as of Friday market closing. Now it's all about attributes of data and search. In an enterprise world we are investing heavily on Bigdata. Because we do not know where the data is anymore we just need make data meaningful.
Same for Plex. I think this request needs to be handled as "Dynamic Libraries" Basically we could have create libraries based on any attribute of our Movie data. Like tags, artists, years, ratings, directors, genre, durations whatever we want.
Who cares we have a library like "movies". I am sure all us browsing our so called "movies library" for plenty of time before watching something. My wife hates it. She thinks it's a waste of time to find a movie to watch. Because we have thousands.
It a like sorting your files in to directories like "my documents, Excel files, word documents, pictures, business, personal etc"
I do not need to find a file. I need sales reports for last Q! I do not care if it a excel file or PowerPoint. I just need the "information"
So browsing is already dead in 10 years ago. We need libraries based on semantic search and user preference. And it should be easily changed over time. For example I may need a library for "Oscar Movies" (yes I tag my movies and hoping that it will be usefull in some time...) during Oscars season and "Animations for kids" during summer holidays...
Just my 2 cents...
I think we already passed the age when we care about where the data itself is. That's why Google worth $400B as of Friday market closing. Now it's all about attributes of data and search. In an enterprise world we are investing heavily on Bigdata. Because we do not know where the data is anymore we just need make data meaningful.
Same for Plex. I think this request needs to be handled as "Dynamic Libraries" Basically we could have create libraries based on any attribute of our Movie data. Like tags, artists, years, ratings, directors, genre, durations whatever we want.
Who cares we have a library like "movies". I am sure all us browsing our so called "movies library" for plenty of time before watching something. My wife hates it. She thinks it's a waste of time to find a movie to watch. Because we have thousands.
It a like sorting your files in to directories like "my documents, Excel files, word documents, pictures, business, personal etc"
I do not need to find a file. I need sales reports for last Q! I do not care if it a excel file or PowerPoint. I just need the "information"
So browsing is already dead in 10 years ago. We need libraries based on semantic search and user preference. And it should be easily changed over time. For example I may need a library for "Oscar Movies" (yes I tag my movies and hoping that it will be usefull in some time...) during Oscars season and "Animations for kids" during summer holidays...
Just my 2 cents...
Have you ever looked at the genres and such tags in Plex? It's a freaking mess. They are almost completely useless. The only way to do what you're saying is if you go into your library and manually correct everything. I don't know how big your library is but that would take me years.
I think we already passed the age when we care about where the data itself is. That's why Google worth $400B as of Friday market closing. Now it's all about attributes of data and search. In an enterprise world we are investing heavily on Bigdata. Because we do not know where the data is anymore we just need make data meaningful.
Same for Plex. I think this request needs to be handled as "Dynamic Libraries" Basically we could have create libraries based on any attribute of our Movie data. Like tags, artists, years, ratings, directors, genre, durations whatever we want.
Who cares we have a library like "movies". I am sure all us browsing our so called "movies library" for plenty of time before watching something. My wife hates it. She thinks it's a waste of time to find a movie to watch. Because we have thousands.
It a like sorting your files in to directories like "my documents, Excel files, word documents, pictures, business, personal etc"
I do not need to find a file. I need sales reports for last Q! I do not care if it a excel file or PowerPoint. I just need the "information"
So browsing is already dead in 10 years ago. We need libraries based on semantic search and user preference. And it should be easily changed over time. For example I may need a library for "Oscar Movies" (yes I tag my movies and hoping that it will be usefull in some time...) during Oscars season and "Animations for kids" during summer holidays...
Just my 2 cents...
I don't disagree with you one bit, but the developers at Plex have shown us time and time again that they are incapable of utilizing data efficiently within the interface. My statement was merely a workaround for the lack of functionality that I am not expecting anytime soon.
Have you ever looked at the genres and such tags in Plex? It's a freaking mess. They are almost completely useless. The only way to do what you're saying is if you go into your library and manually correct everything. I don't know how big your library is but that would take me years.
I think this is because of The Movie Database Agent. You have to disable "Use collection info from The Movie Database". It really messes up the tags. I experienced it in a hard way. The solution is disable it and initiate full library refresh.
I don't disagree with you one bit, but the developers at Plex have shown us time and time again that they are incapable of utilizing data efficiently within the interface. My statement was merely a workaround for the lack of functionality that I am not expecting anytime soon.
You post was just insightful for me. Don' t get me wrong; my post was not a direct answer for yours ;)
Im 100% on board with some better tag integration or something.
Show me similar content to the movie I just watched. Give me options. I have this huge library, discovery is a huge problem with plex.
How bout letting me see episodes of TV and movies tagged with #Christmas around the holidays? Stuff like that.
I agree, my movie collection just passed 700 and it's extremely hard to discover content. Especially in the tablet/phone clients.
I have way more episodes of TV Shows, but navigate that extremely easily. I know it's two different things, but a single list of all movies isn't an optimal solution. You would never layout music or tv shows in that manner.
Does anyone have any examples of apps that they thing do this really well?
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Add another to the list for this. I hate scrolling through all my Bond and Godzilla movies and Collections doesn't work on Browser which I use the most (PS4).
Give my support to this. Movies grid feels very clustered to me with 23 bonds movies and 6 star wars movies, especially when I have about 60 movies in total.
OP, maybe add 'Request' to the topic of the thread?
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You have my axe! And my vote. OK, really just the vote...
But seriously, I loved this feature in XBMC. It makes the movie screen so much more enjoyable to navigate.
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I have created many collections. The biggest issue with collections is how long it takes to create them. It makes sense to treat the movies as collections. If they just implement using collections to allow you to create additional collections to allow a movie to be in more than one collection at a time.
For example I have put movies in Spider-Man, Ironman, etc then also placed them in the avengers just as one example. Created a collection for all 6 Lord of the Rings movies.
This would be very easy to implement.
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I have to say, I would love to see this added. I still use raspbmc on my pi for my main unit until the xbox one app is released, but I love having the collections grouped as its less to scroll through when you are browsing the library and looking for something to watch.
I'm a collector (I have all Bond movies for example), and the possiblity to present these in a neat way would be awesome! :)
