I have a few hundred documentaries. Some are series, and some are single episode. For example, I collect WWII docs. I have WWII in Color, The World at War, etc. I also have a bunch of BBC documentaries like The Battle of Britain, and from the History Channel like D-Day or Pearl Harbour 75 years later. I could split all these movies into two libraries, one for singles and one for series. But I have movies and shows about Ancient Egypt, UFO’s, Archeology. You get the idea. So when I want to watch a doc about, eg., the Bermuda Triangle, or Astronomy, I’ll always have to look in two libraries. I understand, you may not be able to create this based on how your software is organized. I just thought I would mention it. Also, documentaries are just one example of how this functionality could be used. Thanks.
There’s an existing feature suggestion for this (they use a very similar example):
It would probably be better to vote over there (if you haven’t) and close this request.
You could go with one documentary library for movies and tv-shows each and assign those “topics” as their own collection. This way, the “Ancient Egypt” tv-shows will show as related content in the same-named movie collection.
That being said… there’s already an existing suggestion discussing for Plex to support libraries that have mixed content (tv shows and movies). Please comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes. Unless I’m missing some unique aspect of your suggestion I’ll close this thread as a duplicate.
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2024 clean-up: duplicate
