I’ve recently imported some comics (.jpg format) as a Photo library. What I want is to sort these files by filename. I’ve disabled the Plex Pass photo functionality (won’t be useful in this matter).
What I want to achieve:
In library settings, be able to set default view to folder and sorting of pictures by filename.
I also got a lot a lot of MP3s in my Music Collection. Here too I would love to set default view to folder.
My PodCast suffers the same as my comics library. I need to be able to set default view to folder and order the files ascending by name.
Yes, I know there is a folder view setting in the client - but I don’t think it’s efficient and a lot of my friends really don’t know about this. I want to define the “default” layout of my libraries.
I’ve been a plexpass user since the beginning, which, in my opinon, should give my thoughts some attention from the development team.
I agree that plex apps and clients shoul allow users to set by default the view thay prefer.
For all my photos libraries, the default view on iOS is the new “timeline” view, with “recommended” contente and so on… I don’t care about this.
I’ve organized my library with dated subfolders (like “2017.06 - My amazing photo trip”) and I expect to browse my collection by viewing the albums corresponding to these folders, sorted as expected.
This is possible to switch view on iOS app, but this is annoying, and not very intuitive to find how to switch back to the default simple “browsing folders” view.
I vote for your request! (don’t hesitate to look at mine about camera upload features…)
I recently ran into this same issue, at the time I was not able to find a way to get plex to sort by name so for anyone looking for a temporary fix you can just overwrite the imported time
update metadata_items
set originally_available_at='2000-01-01'
where id in (
select md.id from media_items m
left join metadata_items md
on m.metadata_item_id = md.id
where container in ('png', 'jpg', 'jpeg')
)
