Photos > Albums (when was this added? / request)

Hi,

I am baffled that Photos albums has been added to the Photo library and I haven’t read about anywhere. Could someone point me to a Release announcement on this? I have looked trough the Plex Web announcements, and haven’t been able to find any info on it. The Photos & Personal Videos section is also kinda empty regarding this, so are the support pages. I could be blind …

Have a couple of requests :smile:

  1. Allow sorting of photos/videos in Albums.
  2. Playlist is missing a “Photos” filter.
  3. Is there any way to exclude Photo albums from the “Playlists” page? Guess it is because it is based on the Playlist function …

It’s explained on this page (search for ‘albums view’), though not very thoroughly:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392126-Using-the-Library-View

@beckfield said:
It’s explained on this page (search for ‘albums view’), though not very thoroughly:
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200392126-Using-the-Library-View

True, but you have to know that this feature exist and it has been added to the product. I’m looking for an announcement or release note. My point is, that this is a great feature … but it has gone under the “radar”. Since it hasn’t been announcement anywhere … as far i can see.

If you look a bit more closely, you’ll see that ‘albums’ are really ‘playlists’ for photos.

Allow sorting of photos/videos in Albums.

I’ll add an issue to track that internally. It would be a good one to have.

Playlist is missing a “Photos” filter.

That is on purpose, but there’s a bug that…

Is there any way to exclude Photo albums from the “Playlists” page?

Means this is occurring. I’ll be fixing this this week, hopefully, so should be out in a release soon.

Thanks for the feedback. The honest answer as to why we’ve not made a splash about this yet is that we’re not finished improving this experience in web, or other clients, yet

@“Dom C” said:
Thanks for the feedback. The honest answer as to why we’ve not made a splash about this yet is that we’re not finished improving this experience in web, or other clients, yet

Thanks! … Awesome addition to Plex =)

@“Dom C” said:

Is there any way to exclude Photo albums from the “Playlists” page?

Means this is occurring. I’ll be fixing this this week, hopefully, so should be out in a release soon.

So this is why my photo playlist disappeared. Removing Photo albums/playlists from the Playlists page, without making it a user option, is a bad idea. I’ve been using a photo playlist for a while, and I was surprised to see it disappear from the Playlists page.

Why are Photo playlists treated differently than others? Add an “Album” view to Photo libraries, fine, but allow us to keep them on the Playlists page where they’ve always been.

@DomC, I would really like to know why Photo Playlists being shown on the Playlists page was considered a bug. I liked that, and I wish you would put it back.

@DomC, Still hoping to learn why Photo Playlists on the Playlists page was considered a bug. I have created a feature request to restore this behavior.

@DomC
Still wanting to know what the reasoning was behind moving photo playlists out of the Playlists page. This is a degradation of usability in my opinion.