I personally had to order all the sagas such as Friday The 13th by manually modifying the sorting title. For instance;
Friday the 13th Part III (3)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (4)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (5)
Will be located out of order because the sorting title is “Part, The, A”
Therefore, maybe PLEX can work on considering the release date to help them to be in order. I just redid my server and fixing over 1k movies can become a daunting task. I am sure that others may also appreciate it as well. Thank you.
PS: Jason X would be originally located in the letter J which would make the arranging even harder.
This is the sort of thing for which Collections are useful. If you were to create a collection for your Friday the 13th movies you could configure your library to hide those items, and just show the collection. You could then configure the collection itself to display by release date in its settings.
Being able to use multiple sort fields on the main library screen could possibly be useful, but collections are a fairly intuitive way to solve the problem (ensure that related movies are grouped) already.
Thank you I will definitely try it. Although, when someone is new to PLEX and you would like to show them how it works, It would be a great advantage to access the movie library and see the whole content in order without having to filter. Is just the ease of access I am talking about. Thanks for your response keep up the great work!
You can edit the “sort title” for movies in its metadata. when sorting alphabetically this is what Plex uses.
if you don’t want to use collections and sort those by release date or however you want you can edit the sort title to be something like Star Wars Episode 1 through Star Wars Episode 9. In this example have Solo and Rouge One with sort titles of StarWars Episode 3.1 and 3.2 so even though sorting alphabetically they show up in “star wars chronological order” in my regular library without changing the alphabetical sorting of the library as a whole. ( Rouge One also shows up in the S’s because I have it set up this way) So you could have the sort title for your Friday the 13th films as Friday the 13th 01 through Friday the 13th 11
Article Strings
by default article strings ( the, das, der, a, an, el, la, l,) are removed from the sort title meaning for “The Bourne Identity” will by default have the sort title “Bourne Identity” and be sorted in the B’s. when library is sorted alphabetically.
if you want every movie with a “The” at the start of title to be in the T’s you can edit the advanced preference file to remove the value from the ArticleStrings setting so the article is not removed from the sort title
Hello thanks for the prompt response. That’s exactly what I did with Freddy’s movies, children of the corn, Amityville, Child’s Play, Alien, Star Wars, TX chainsaw Massacre, etc. So I had everything fixed for once but the real problem came out when my server had to be redone due to some issues with my PC (server). Once my server was fixed it re-scanned my library and everything that was manually fixed in the past had to be done again. I am talking about 2+ solid hours to order and to find them randomly placed. Adding a movie or 2 and manually fix it is fine. But doing the whole library was exhausting. So that’s when the idea of considering the release date came out as a possible solution or at least to improve the outcome considerably.
