Can you add a new feature, under Home, that organizes all your movies by genre? Without the use of filters (as filters is very clunky to use). I would like to be able to create Hubs and plex automatically sorts my movies under these hubs as a quick way to browse through my list of moves. Plex is already auto-creating some of these hubs, ie, “The most watched Romantic Comedies.”
You already have the mechanism to do this by giving the user the ability to manage hubs. Can you add the ability to add a custom hub?
Slightly different but in the same spirit. Plex is great except where organization by genre is concerned. I don’t know why this feature isn’t something they can provide for private libraries as it is already there for Plex provided media (under Movies & Shows on Plex). Having the same organization for private libraries would not be that difficult if they make the same API calls.
Who said anybody was waiting? I’ve already created a solution of my own but there are challenges to that as well. Plus, I’ve reserved creating a collection to things like James Bond movies or Harry Potter, etc.
What I’ve done instead is to create directories with genre names and create genre specific library to map back to the directory. This isn’t a clean solution as the search function finds it as two different entities, one in the main Movies section and one in the genre section.
They’re using a relational database to keep track of all the mapping of title to file location. I can’t imagine it being too difficult mapping the name to a specific database field (genre) and pushing that data back to the web API.
