So first off… two months new to streaming and cutting the cord… ecstatic when I found PLEX… Now that I have a couple hundred movies loaded I was wondering…
Is there some sort of categorization in PLEX to group movies by genre? Right now I watch via Fire TV and Roku and it is a very long list of movies to scroll through… not to mention alphabetic is kinda a lame way to look at the world… What about sci-fi, comedy, horror, action, drama… etc? Am I asking too much?
Now’s a good time to make that happen, but some adjustments over time are always necessary.
Some would call this extreme, but it works for me until it doesn’t and then I can do something else. One movie library with 4.5 million movies in it is, frankly, madness. Give it some thought, come up with a plan and make it happen. As time goes on you’ll improve on your method.
Do you need 26 Libraries? Probably not - until you do - then you can.
I like your approach, but not sure it’s for me. I was hoping something more automajik as a PLEX feature. Pull the IMDB categories, or gracenote for music…
I can’t be the only loony who thinks this is a good (::cough: premium feature?! Maybe a petition is in order
If your media is prepared properly, Plex will be able to match your movies with records in an online database, and automatically assign genre, as well as other attributes, to your movies.
Yea, good luck with that.
One thing you will learn in your Plex Career is that if Plex isn’t already doing it - wanting them to start doing it is a complete waste of time. If there’s a work-around you better find it, or invent it, and use it.
BTW, here’s an excerpt from my Sci-Fi Sets Library utilizing the thing we do have - The Sort Title Field - to get these items to lay next to each other regardless of their actual names:
There is no shortage of users here weekly complaining because Plex doesn’t handle it better, or like they want them to, but Plex stands behind the podium steadfast in the knowledge it’s The Plex Way or the Highway and since there’s nowhere to go - here’s the work-around.
Welcome to the forum.
Yay! I figured it out! Movies --> Edit --> Advanced --> Use collection info from The Movie Database checkbox… Now I have genres automatically assigned to all my movies and can filter! I KNEW there had to be a feature already built in, those PLEX guys are too smart to ignore something so obvious.
Appreciate this is an old post, but it is such an obvious feature, and I have just purchased an account, with the same question.
I have added Use Collection Info from The Movie Database, but I can’t see a way to sort by genre (I get Year, Release Date, Rating etc).
Can someone tell me how to sort by genre once the Advanced settings have been changed?
NB On my Panasonic TV, I only appear to get recently added, with no options to sort. I have literally just added the library. so perhaps things may change, but if anyone has any experience of the Panasonic app, I would appreciate some pointers.
Don’t worry, found the sort. I thought ‘logically’, I would change All > Movies > ‘sort’, ie to sort the movies. Someone posted a YouTube, which didn’t answer my question, but the selected All, and I noticed that Genre was listed in the drop down.
This indicates that it will sort/find all libraries, which I don’t find intuitive (Sci-Fi music??), but perhaps it will include TV Shows.
My Panasonic is only showing Recently added, which is a terrible way to navigate. I would really appreciate someone giving me some advice (Plex for Smart TVs: 3.13.21, Smart TV Alliance: 3.0)
For that to make more sense to you, you could look at the filter/sort section literally.
Long form: Show SCOPE of ITEM TYPE sorted by ORDER
Where…
SCOPE is „All“ or a subset like genre, period (decade/year), content rating, user/critic rating, artist (director, actor, writer…), grouping (collection, sharing tags), technical aspects (resolution…) etc. filtering/restricting the records.ITEM TYPE identifies which items Plex will display… e.g.
ORDER identifies the way the items will be sorted, e.g. by title, dates, ratings…Thanks for the explanation. Appreciate your time.
Also worked out the Panasonic app. Again, I don’t find it intuitive, as the initial view appears to be ‘within’ Movies, but you have to select Movies before the options appear.
Once you get used to it, it is quite a nice interface.
