Yep. Tried that for a bit but didn’t like it too much. There aren’t THAT many TV Shows that can be directly linked to movies. Star Trek is an obvious one and if you own the Sound Tracks those could be added. But meh… I’m more of a “Movie” guy. I do have a bunch of HD and UHD TV Shows that are good enough to own and will binge watch on occasion.
Oh I don’t know, marvel, dc, star wars, star trek, serenity/firefly, xfiles, so many others big and small.
you can use custom collections to group similar stuff, like all MCU/DCU movies and shows that are not necessarily a direct sequel.
That’s the problem. When we gather the collection info from TheMovieDB, it’s done 1 movie at a time. There’s no way to know ahead of time if you the user will have multiple movies from a collection in your library. If we wait until after we know, it’s too late since we don’t go back to add them.
As mentioned, the option to ignore collections with only 1 item has been requested.
I didn’t look at the source code so I honestly don’t know for sure how it’s structured but based on your response it probably flows as simply as the way you described. Collections are formed based completely on what the retrieving agent receives from the users chosen Meta Database. Simply stated - if the Meta Database says there is a sequel or more than one part to a story it forms a collection. Instead you can easily create a validation check that wouldn’t cause any wasted cycles.
Instead of creating a new Collection each time the scanning/agent engine encounters a title the Meta Database says a title is part of a collection or series, create a check log. Something to refer to later or check against. When ever a series title is encountered and an entry exists in the log, then create the collection for both titles and remove the entry from the log. Keep the log of these “one offs” so if a user adds a series title later, it won’t have to retrieve the info from the Meta Database. It’ll have what it needs to create the Collection for the newly added title.
An easier method to implement would be just to add an option to “Hide Single Titles in a Collection” and display the lone title like you normally would. When scanning occurs and a second title in the Collection is added, automatically unhide the Collection.
To be clear, Plex doesn’t create the collections based on the movies. It’s an actual piece of data we get from TheMovieDB. Plex then creates the collection you see in the UI based on the data that was already added.
Yes, hiding collections with 1 entry would be easier. The other stuff you mentioned would be quite complicated. Unfortunately, it’s not my call what features get implemented. Like I said, it’s been requested and the devs are aware of the request.
IMO collection data should always be added to the individual content.
it is only the display of collections (which are dynamically generated via database and queries) for the client view, which needs the expanded option of hiding collections with an item qty < 2.
another aside, for RBDaniel is you can have multiple collections on an item.
Example: I have the Iron Man movies in 2 collections;
So the movie iron man has 2 entries in the collections field, “Iron Man” and “Marvel Universe”.
@anon18523487 - Yep. And thank you for the brain storm. I figured you guys were already “thinking” about it. Giving users control over hiding a 1 title collection and forcing it to appear as a stand alone title would be awesome… for starters. 
@TeknoJunky - Yeah. I’m doing the same thing but not all of the Marvel Universe movies are available in 4K. Is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 still in HD only? I haven’t checked in a long time. But I have Vol 1 in HD and Vol 2 in 4K. It would be nice if both showed up in my Avengers Collection but still appear as a stand alone title in their respective Libraries (HD Movies / UHD Movies) vs the all the way on or all the way off approach since they are in separate libraries. Since I don’t like single titles showing up as a collection and I want both GotG V1&2 to show up in my Avengers collection they are both only tagged as being in the Avengers collection. It’s one work around for keeping them in a collection and not showing up in a single title collection. Make sense?
4k is irrelevant for collections.
I keep my 4k in a separate library, and keep a 720 or 1080 copy to avoid remote transcodes.
Extra copies of any movie are put into the same collection so they are listed on the related movies/collections pages.
Personally I use collections and HIDE the originals.
Collections of one don’t really bother me like it does some people, sure I would prefer the requested behavior of hiding 0-1 size collections, but that doesn’t stop me from making use of them as they currently are.
We can only do what we want to do within the limits of what we can do.
Another option for organizing movies are playlists.
You can create ‘smart’ playlists via custom filtered views (these change dynamically according to your content), and static playlists by manually adding something to a playlist.
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