@mbarylski said:
Can someone from Plex please respond to this post? You’ve got a lot of users that are advocating for this feature and it seems to be a simple fix of just adding a few more metadata fields to the “Play Version” function. Can you please move this feature up in the priority list?
Agree
What I did was sort Movies by duplicates, I then split the dupes and renamed them based on what version they were and created a collection to have the different cuts in.
More or less what I did also. But some flicks it’s not worth it.
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Would be nice if there would be a solution for this problem soon. Just display the file name in the version selector, as many here had mentioned. This would help me alot.
with the upcoming forum migration there’ll be a new voting system… so prepare yourself to get this one voted reeeeeeeeeally high 
@tom80H said:
with the upcoming forum migration there’ll be a new voting system… so prepare yourself to get this one voted reeeeeeeeeally high
How do you know there is a forum migration?
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@tom80H said:
with the upcoming forum migration there’ll be a new voting system… so prepare yourself to get this one voted reeeeeeeeeally highHow do you know there is a forum migration?
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/319354/well-be-moving-the-forums-to-discourse-heres-the-scoop
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@kamhouse said:
@tom80H said:
with the upcoming forum migration there’ll be a new voting system… so prepare yourself to get this one voted reeeeeeeeeally highHow do you know there is a forum migration?
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/319354/well-be-moving-the-forums-to-discourse-heres-the-scoop
Thanks. And Discourse looks pretty good.
Dear Plex
Please add this feature.
many, many people are asking for a way to clearly select a particular version (cut) of a movie that they want to watch, without having to have multiple library headings, or having to figure out workarounds.
the first post i can see in this thread is in august 2012. That makes this request nearly 6 years old.
+1 This would be awesome!
Greetings
I wonder if there is some hidden reason why this is difficult to implement?
137 users in this thread, but only 24 votes on the new forum system so far.
This request was first created in August 2012. I just wish they would of converted over people’s “likes” to votes but I think the admin/mods/devs want a fresh start. That and it would of been a pain-in-the-ass to do so,
I agree. The new system seems to give a limited amount of votes, so straight conversion might have been complicated.
I really could use this in my account. I would like to add in some edited versions of movies and be able to choose which one to watch. Let us put some free text in the file name that lets us add in some free text, or possibly just give us a way in Plex to add another field to the instance just for this.
It’s a little thing that would make having multiple versions of items so much nicer.
Definite vote for named versions (with a little bit of polish on the management of these items)!
Patiently waiting for multiple cuts of a movie to be supported in plex…
+1 Please develop a standard soluton.
I voted.
Collections is a work around, but not ideal, so I just have multiple copies of films listed in my library. I could create an “Avatar” collection, and put all the different versions in there of the same film. But that’d be annoying to have collections for things that aren’t collections.
I have, however, created a “3D” collection to contain all my 3D films. But yes, it would be nice for a single film to be listed once, and have the versions (director’s cut, redux, super-duper cut [Deadpool 2], theatrical, 3D, or whatever crazy version) listed within the single item.
The “play version” option is meant for file quality, not for “versions” of the film.
Since I created that mockup a while back, I have been pondering whether 3D should be a “cut”. It is technically more of a version, akin to 4k vs 1080p vs 480p.
The problem with treating it like a cut is what happens if you have a 3D version of the director’s cut and theatrical cut? How would you label that? I’m not sure if we should start double tagging the file names. It could get unwieldy for the user to keep up with the rules.
I think we definitely need an interface for picking the version as well as the cut, but finding a simple interface for the database side as well as the playback side might be a challenge.
