Currently you have multiple descriptions you can use for local media files. -behindthescenes -deleted -featurette -interview -scene -short -trailer -other I suggest you add one more “Alt Version” and it needs to be the first choice or at least the first after Trailer. This would be for director c…

Well, that has been hanging around for 9 years and local extras is a functionality they already support. All I’m asking for is an additional category.

+1 for the simple “AltVersion”. I looked at the Multiple Cuts of a Movie thread and that is a vast train wreck overflowing with every nuance and complexity imaginable. No thanks. I’ve tried the “split” the then you must go and individually edit each item. The display is now dependent on the metadat…

Seems a simple, logical, and easy to implement solution to the problem. “Other” works, but the films end up last after a long list of potential other local assets.

There are many shortcomings when you make a ‘Movie’ an ‘Extra’. Still - just about anything is better than this: [image] One is too long and the other one is way too long, but good luck picking the shorter one.

True. If it is an extra, you lose metadata. No Poster. Stuff like that. But I would rather have these director cut versions looped in with the main movie than side by side as they were before. Most of the time they are versions you won’t watch anyway. I prefer the original Star Wars to the special e…

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OttoKerner April 30, 2021, 7:20pm 2

I think you rather want to back this: Multiple Cuts Of Movie

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Local Files Option for "Alt Version"

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