Is there a way to watch a specific trailer?

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I love Plex so just upgraded to premium to show my support, but I also wanted to be able to watch trailers of my movies… I have so many, I can’t always remember what they are about. Alternatively, sometimes I’ll be with a group of people and we want to vote on what movie to watch so will watch the trailers for a few options on YouTube. I thought with Plex Pass, we would have the option to watch any movie in my library (I used a program a looong time ago that had this feature. I think it might have been Boxee).

But as far as I can tell, though trailers was advertised, this isn’t actually a feature. Seems you can just have it play a random trailer before watching a movie. You can’t have it be THAT movie to make sure it’s what you want to watch. Am I missing something? It would be great to have an icon on each individual movie listing in my library which would launch the trailer for it.

Thanks! Hope I posted this in the right place.

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yes you can view a trailer for a movie assuming you have set that up to have it fetch them along with other metadata in the agent settings.

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/202934883 ( scroll down to “how to get extras” )

after you have them set up, in apps on the movie pre-play you can select to watch them

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Its mentioned in the above link but you can store them locally and manage them yourself if you really want

Scroll down to local trailers and extras

I use this if I rip DVDs with extra features like interviews etc.

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220677

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He is talking abut the plex pass feature so i think he wants them to have them jsut show up.

anyone can add them locally if they have the files with or without a Plex Pass

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@BigWheel said:
He is talking abut the plex pass feature so i think he wants them to have them jsut show up.

anyone can add them locally if they have the files with or without a Plex Pass

Yes, exactly. What I like about Plex is that all I need is the movie file itself - all the other work is done for me. Until Plex, I used a WD Media Player which was pretty good but a lot of work - I had to install custom software and then find and save my own thumbnails, fan art, etc. Plex does all this for me. Would be great if it also showed the trailer on request as well. Is this not a feature of Plex Pass? If not, are there others who would agree that it should be a requested feature? Thanks.

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it is already a feature. the link i posted in my previous post ( the one with the image ) explains how to set it up

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@BigWheel said:
it is already a feature. the link i posted in my previous post ( the one with the image ) explains how to set it up

Thanks, I will try your instructions later tonight to see if it works.