I’m trying to understand your scenario, @mackatini. How is that different from putting a movie into multiple normal collections?
I have “Iron Man” and “MCU” collections. The movies Iron Man and Iron Man 2 and Iron Man 3 are members of both collections.
I also experimented with using a Smart Collection that contained the collections “Iron Man” and “Avengers” and so on.
This seems like a pretty self-explanatory request. I don’t find many of Plex’s metadata filters to be useful, especially with a big library. Besides, the filters have to be accessed through a cumbersome dropdown menu, which is particularly annoying on an Apple TV. I would like to organize my library, my own way, through the Collections feature. Its nigh impossible to do that if there’s only one level of navigation.
Although it’s the same it would require a ton of collections on the dashboard. So where I have a handful full like Superhero or Scifi I would then have Matrix or Iron man within, not Superhero then Iron man, Captain America, avengers all in the same dash.
Multiple collections is nice for a action/thriller, but not Superhero/Ironman.
Just my 2 cents.
I think I understand - and my comments are only mine, of course.
I want to be able to look for “Iron Man 2” or “Iron Man” or “Avengers” or “MCU phase 1” or “MCU”. Those don’t all nest naturally.
And I don’t want to have to remember how it was nested. Or for my mom’s boyfriend to have to guess how I organized things.
I don’t mind the “clutter” of additional collections. I think they help discoverability, and it avoids unnatural groupings.
I’m more of a “tag and search” person with files and email, too.
So I’d never use nested collections. I get it - and I don’t mind that others would. I’d just never use them myself.
Happy 4th!
Hi @Volts, sorry for taking so long to respond…
JP sums this up nicely in his post.
Great job, this would be extremely useful for all libraries, specially the music library. I would love making collections by music genre and be able to add multiple hubs to each collection. I will add that playlists should also become nested, so you can also create collections of playlists. Playlist should be manageable objects, not so static as they are now.
I don’t like how PLEX handles versions of movies. So I prefer to have 4 different entries for the 4 different versions of Star Wars Episode IV. I would like nested collections so I can have my main Star Wars Collection then have a Star Wars Episode IV Collection within the Star Wars Collection.
Does that make sense?
Star Wars is a nightmare. Between out-of-order (by date) trilogies, the multiple official releases, separate ‘stories’, and fan edits you need collections within collections within collections.
Alien/Prometheus/AVP is almost as bad
This is sorely needed in my opinion. I’d like to separate movie trilogies etc within larger collections. Or have a festive collection and then xmas, halloween etc within that collection. Hoping to see this implemented at some point in the near future.
Adding on that I would love nested collections, especially necessary with movie franchises with branching timelines like Ringu
+1. The fact that this has been requested for so long, but has never been added, is a bit disturbing.
You must be new here 
I just want to add my name to the vast list of people wanting nested collections. I myself have 6 different collections that all belong in one collection with them as nested collections (A singer who did concert videos, movies, behind-the-scene videos, individual music videos and more). I would love it if they could all be one main collection to scroll through if that’s not what I’m looking for. Did you know there are 4 different “Honeymooners” series (besides that movie)? The Lost Episodes, Classic 39 and 2 different color revivals. I currently have a huge collection of them all in the same collection, but wish they were separate.
To sum it up, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE set it so that we can have nested collections that go at least 3 layers in for all the categories. (Personally, I keep both movies and tv as movies so they are all listed together, because I don’t see the point in separating them. I’d love to have the collection Star Trek\The Next Generation\Season 3 along with Star Trek\Movies\Next Generation).
Day 1030 of asking for nested collections, still no sign of a plex employee.
Plex doesn’t comment on feature suggestions unless they’re unclear / have questions. The only hard fact you can read from getting “no comment” is that it’s not been rejected. Keep in mind this is a feature suggestion forum… Plex is implementing a lot of them – not always the ones with the highest amount of votes (thought it’s a factor).
This would also be very helpful for ‘Home Videos’. I am currently moving home videos to my Plex server and as of right now, I am just doing years as a collection. For example, It would be nice to have within the “2021” collection “kids’ birthdays”, “Christmas”, “Arbor Day”, etc.
+1 That feature would be useful for so many things.
+1, even the ability to have one level of nested collections would be great. Something like:
etc…
It follows the schema for TV Shows;
Wow, Plex. This is insane. It’s been 3 years and not even an acknowledgment. Shouldn’t be that surprising though since it took 6 years for the highest voted on feature to be implemented(MFA). I’m guessing that it’ll be at least 3 more years for this if not longer. During that time we’ll see more new features added that no one asked for.
What good is a feature suggestion forum when it feels like it falls on deaf ears?
You might want to read this post that explains how the feature suggestion forum works. Now… you might not like that but it’s the way it is.
