+1 on this as well! The functions seems to already be there, given you can combine different quality rips, we just need to see the file name displayed instead of the file quality.
Treat multiple cuts similar to the way Plex treats TV libraries and allow the user to choose, yes, but trying to do it by choosing streams etc makes it nebulous at best.
I would really like this feature. Even if all it did was give you a clear choice when you hit play on a movie that has multiple editions that would be enough for me.
Not a bad idea. Itās really important to keep the original Star Wars version where Han shoots first! 
Friday , directors cut is terrible. I need my users to be able to know to select the theatrical release. 
Great idea!
Filling out letters so I can post ā+1ā
Itās hard to believe that this still isnāt a āthing.ā Itās a pretty core function for movie enthusiasts to have multiple versions. Directors cuts, extended editions, even international versions (ex: British and American versions of films like the Harry Potter series, or even some of the Muppet movies.)
Another +1 for this feature.
I would like to see support for movies with multiple versions such as Directors Cut, Extended Cuts, Special Editions, etc. I suggest maybe a tagging system similar to the extra content tags.
Something like:
Avatar (2009) -theatrical.mkv = Theatrical Release
Avatar (2009) -extended.mkv = Extended Cut
Avatar (2009) -special.mkv = Special Edition
Avatar (2009) -director.mkv = Directors Cut
Avatar (2009) -3d.mkv = 3D
On the movieās info page the different versions could be listed under the main title where the time and content rating show up with a play button next to each one. So for Avatar we might see:
[ > ] Theatrical Release ā¦ 2 hr 41 min [PG-13]
[ > ] Special Edition ā¦ 2 hr 50 min [PG-13]
[ > ] Extended Cut ā¦ 2 hr 58 min [PG-13]
[ > ] 3D ā¦ 2 hr 41 min [PG-13]
With Batman v Superman the ratings changed so it might look like this:
[ > ] Theatrical Release ā¦ 2 hr 31 min [PG-13]
[ > ] Extended Cut ā¦ 3 hr 3 min [R]
I guess having the content ratings would require that the movie database be version aware. I donāt know who youād have to contact to get that updated.
NOTE: I actually searched for ātheatrical cutā, āextended cutā, ādirectorās cutā and āmultiple versionsā without luck before posting this idea to a new duplicate thread. Thanks to @adamskoog for finding this original for me. Maybe someone needs to improve the tags or the title on this thread to widen the search words?
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This would be a great feature. For now, Iām archiving all the cuts I like less outside of Plex and keeping just the ones I care most about in Plex, but it would be nice to have them integrated in one place and let me choose which one to watch.
For anyone interested, I spent a little time and pulled all of the posts related to āCollectionsā (that I could find) into sort of a summary post with counts. Its pretty interesting to see how many posts there were on the same idea and how popular a lot of them were. Just goes to show how many people are interested in this feature and also on how little attention it seems to be getting from the development team :-/ Maybe by pulling together some stats we might be able to encourage some actual progress?
Is this being considered? I really want this feature as well, for all the reasons previous to mine.
I can not believe that this has been requested for FIVE YEARS and it still hasnāt been implemented. +1, not that anyone at Plex gives a crap.
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@taz420nj For real. It makes me wonder how many people they actually have working on things. Itās like they can only work on one feature at a time and currently is the DVR. Before that it was cloud storage, I suppose.
Is there anyway we can bring the attention of the developers to this topic?
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Yep 
Client the ālikeā on the very first post. Send them emails, send them tweets ā basically we need to keep letting them know its important to us
I also had this issue for a while but realized that Iām looking for something that might be a bit unreasonable.
My guess:
Plex uses fuzzy matching of title and year from the filename to grab metadata from IMDB. And IMDB does not maintain consistent structured data about non-theatrical non-premiere releases. Attempting to differentiate various releases would require an alternative canonical source for validation. Apart from that, any automated effort to distinguish releases would require some level of user intervention and would instead lead to a higher error rate in primary matching. Hence, I suspect, there is little incentive to consider this edge case a priority.
@ankushnarula I think it could be done relatively easily using the file naming tags though.
Something like:
Avatar (2009) -theatrical.mkv = Theatrical Release
Avatar (2009) -extended.mkv = Extended Cut
Avatar (2009) -special.mkv = Special Edition
Avatar (2009) -director.mkv = Directors Cut
Avatar (2009) -3d.mkv = 3D
The main challenge would be coming up with an interface so people could choose which version to play, but that shouldnāt be too hard.
The only confusing part I could think of is when different versions actually have a different rating the way that Batman V Superman went from PG-13 to R with the Extended Cut. That sort of information would have to be in a database somewhere if it really mattered.
I donāt think it would even have to be that complex. Use the multiple version picker that already exists. Have a space in the name that describes the version and have that appear in the version picker
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@SerenadeXS - wait, what is the version picker that already exists?
