Plex duplicating certain movies (not recorded but encoded)

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I’ve not been in my server for about a month and I noticed that there are now two copies of some movies showing, one of them with the word “movie” as shown in the picture. I’m seeing the same thing when I view my movies in Fire TV. It’s not happening on all of them, but sporadic. I’ve seen a couple of other recent threads discussing this, but they seem to be related to DVR recordings. The attached image shows a movie I’ve had in my database for a couple of years. It is not in a folder but just loose in the Movies folder under the name and year, per required naming standards. There is no other movie with this title. Bug?

Server is Version 1.12.0.4829

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I noticed the same thing in my movies library.
If you go into your Movies Edit Library and Disable Collection it should fix it.

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Inline collections have been added with PMS version 1.11; since 1.12 you can also see them with the Plex Web version installed on the server.

The “2nd” entry is based on the entries in Edit > Tags > Collection of your movies. Usually there’s 3 ways how those collection tags can have been added:

  1. you manually added the tag
  2. you have configured Plex to automatically include collection information from The Movie Database (click “Edit” on your library; in the “Advanced” section there’s an option “Use collection information from The Movie Database”)
  3. if you use MP4 files (or M4V) and have the library configured to use embedded metadata (also… library: Edit > Advanced), the “Album” tag will be used as “collection”

You can find more details on if / how to use inline collections in the Plex Blog and the related support article:

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@DoveMan1970 said:
I noticed the same thing in my movies library.
If you go into your Movies Edit Library and Disable Collection it should fix it.

Thanks! I’ll do that because in the cases that I want, I’ve made my own collection names.

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@tom80H said:
Inline collections have been added with PMS version 1.11; since 1.12 you can also see them with the Plex Web version installed on the server.

The “2nd” entry is based on the entries in Edit > Tags > Collection of your movies. Usually there’s 3 ways how those collection tags can have been added:

  1. you manually added the tag
  2. you have configured Plex to automatically include collection information from The Movie Database (click “Edit” on your library; in the “Advanced” section there’s an option “Use collection information from The Movie Database”)
  3. if you use MP4 files (or M4V) and have the library configured to use embedded metadata (also… library: Edit > Advanced), the “Album” tag will be used as “collection”

You can find more details on if / how to use inline collections in the Plex Blog and the related support article:

That explains it well. Thanks so much!

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Oh wow! Now that I see what it is doing, it makes sense. I think I’ll lleave it. The ones I was seeing were those with no other films in the collection. But when I looked at collections I made, I now see there is quick access to them without toggling it from all to Collection, then choosing one. That’s pretty cool.

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there’s a set of interesting feature requests in this area, aiming at some “final touches” to make this feature truly great :wink:
check them out and like the original entries to promote the feature requests!

examples:

  1. allow a more detailed control on visibility for individual collections – I’m biased about that one :wink:
  2. option to hide collections with less than a certain number of items (=empty collections, single-movie collections from which you don’t really have a value of having them showing)
  3. fixing of the wording how multi-library collections are referred to
  4. quite new… have a dedicated entry for collections on the home page (I haven’t yet quite made my mind up about that one)