I think there is an issue with the way the counts are occurring within Plex. If you have collections enabled the count of movies shows only movies not in collections and then a count of 1 for any movies in a collection. So if I have 3 collections each with 3 movies then I show a count of 3 and not 9. To me I would prefer to see a total count of all movies (not counting anything for a collection). If you want to show collections maybe have a separate counter to show number of collections displayed (not necessarily collections that exist).
Workaround: Choose anything but view By Title - release date, date added, etc.
Collections are only displayed when viewing by title. Change to another view and (a) you see all movies w/o collections, and (b) the count is for all movies (i.e. 9 for example in your post).
It is not a ‘movie count’. It is an ‘item count’.
It will count 1 for every movie and 1 for every collection that is visible.
If you want to know the number of ‘real’ movies, change the sort order temporarily to anything other than ‘Title’.
Here is where I am going to respectfully disagree.
When I filter the library by… All -> Movies -> By Title… that infers that I am going to see a count of MOVIES not a count of “ITEMS”.
You would be correct if it said All -> Items -> By Title…
or All -> Collections (which does give me an accurate count of collections by the way).
Totally agree with OP here. I came to the forums actually to report this as a bug and found this thread.
I understand the intent of the number - that it’s designed to count items.
But it’s placement on the UI strongly suggests that it’s providing a count of all movies.
I think it’s just a UI issue with how collections are inserted into the normal movie flow. Collections are added and counted like titles. The number in its current state is misleading because of this.
I would like to see an option to hide the number. I suspect most folks don’t know the exact movie count of their library (too big?) and so this isn’t an issue for most. For someone counting their movies from a file integrity perspective - it’s noticeable.
The alternate sort option is an OK workaround - but not ideal.
(alas - I have no votes to give though)
2021 clean-up: duplicate (while this thread is older, the newer one has more votes → 1 > 0…)
