Multiple Editions of the same movie = Split apart, really?

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I’m sure this has been raised a few times however I was reading this: Multi-Version Movies | Plex Support

Which clearly stated this:
’ Note : This feature is not intended for situations where you might have, for instance, both a “theatrical” and “director’s cut” version of a movie. Likewise, it is not appropriate for 2D vs 3D versions. Those situations are best handled by Splitting the movie into separate library items."

Fab - totally useless, why would I split the same movie into separate library items to clutter up Plex? …anyhow so I went to this: Merge or Split Items | Plex Support

and it STILL does not allow for easy identification within Plex of the different files of the same movie!

So why bother having a completely useless “Splitting” function, when by definition its the same movie?

Using the Multi-versions function to simply put text labels on which version is selected resolves this and allows easy selection on which to play. The actual file formats are valid - great to pick from…so whatever 'label’s admins assign to the filename (ie “This Movie (2000) WhateverTextAdminsLike.mkv”) should be displayed in Plex as part of the text to pick from…it has no impact to Plex, the formats are still the same.

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Remove the useless “SPLIT” function as its bloatware and does not accomplish the job anyhow - just use the existing function with text help with what is being selected. That way if no text exists in the filename (as some admins would want), no text appears in Plex.

It would be unfortunate if the requirement to easily identify the different files of the same “movie” are ignored (again) by a company that doesn’t listen to their customer-base…

Directors-cut, SD/HD version, MyFav Version, Clearer, Proper, 2D/3D/4D, SomeRandomText etc. are all just made up filename ‘identifiers’ of the SAME MOVIE - give Admins some control over how they’re displayed in Plex.

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It accomplishes the job that it’s designed to accomplish.
When nonperfect naming of files leads to duplicates.
As much as I agree that “Multiple editions” really does need to be a thing in Plex I’m not sure the hyperbole helps anyone.

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the split function works completely fine and works well for people that have more than one folder location for the same types of media.

If you have the same movie in the same library if you name the folders and files differently then after you can change the display name. This can be tedious to some but you will find this “limitation” comes down to the metadata scrapers.

You realistically have the option of doing either way.

Say for instance you have a folder full of directors cuts then the split works, if you only occasionally get them just edit the display name or maybe even consider another folder.

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The split just saved my bacon since I’ve several versions of movies with different languages and since I want different posters for them I want them split up.
But Plex all mighty of course decided that the movies I had split up which had clearly different languages and such needed to be put back together again…

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