Plex Suggestions for Movies/TV Shows/Actors

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From what I see, it appears that all suggestions for related movies or the list of TV shows/movies an actor plays a part in are limited to a single sub section in my library.

In my case I have:
TV Shows
Movies
Kids TV Shows
Kids Movies

If I watch a movie from the main section and like Actor X and want to see what else they are in I only see other movies that live in my “Movies” section when I know they are also in something living in “Kids Movies” or even in “TV Shows”. Same for recommendations, they always seem to be limited to the same sub content box.

Am I doing something wrong or is there no way for those recommendations/information to span the entire library?

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Well, they are technically spanning the entire library. You just have multiple libraries.

If you want this to work better and get rid of some library clutter, you can do as follows:

have a single library for Movies/Kids Movies, and instead of limiting the kids to the kids movies, limit them by rating. You will have to go in and add ratings for movies that don’t already have them, but for the most part, they will all have some sort of rating.

This will ensure that actors movies show up from both the kids movies and the regular movies as they’re all in there. It will not however work between movies and tv. So if Samuel L Jackson is in a movie, and then he’s also in a tv show, it still will not work that way.

Unfortunately, for the section you’re talking about, this is the only way to do it that I know of, but someone may have other options for you.

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Its one thing I have never really got my head around in Plex.
It’s just so stupidly limiting when the green variant of Plex happily pulls in Movies, Shows and for the more vocally talented actors/actresses their albums too.

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yes, but doesn’t the green variant stipulate that everyone who uses it, whether they have a server or not, be a subscriber paying monthly, or buying a lifetime pass?

I dunno about you, but I have like 15 ppl who don’t live in my home that access my server on a regular basis… requiring them to pay a monthly fee to do so is just poor form…

I could be wrong, but I did try and set one up to compare, and that limitation ultimately killed it for me…

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Well none of that is or ever was the case. But what’s that got to do with the issue mentioned.
Emby handles it Plex doesn’t.
Don’t get me wrong Emby has plenty of failings and for me Plex has less so that’s why I use Plex.

It could have been worse though. The libraries concerned in the OP could have been simply movies and 4K movies.
Merge them it works… but breaks the self appointed “rules of 4K.”

Anyway thanks for making me realise what I’m not missing on the forums.

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Umm… I beg to differ… Unless you can show me otherwise, my invited users were asked to pay for Emby Premier when I tested Emby, and when I asked, I was told: “It’s supposed to be that way”…

Then why even bring them up in the conversation? That seems a bit counter-productive

Yes, because that’s how Libraries work inside of Plex. That’s not to say that it’s the right way to handle it, it’s to say that this is the way they’ve chosen to handle it, and they could improve it, provided someone makes a feature request, it gets enough votes, and the dev team decides it’s a project they wish to pursue. Until then, you, the OP, and I, all need to work within the confines of the current system.

Umm, you’re welcome? I wasn’t the one who chose to come into a thread and complain about the platform and bring competing products that I don’t even use into it… I mean come on man, the world is full of opinions, and they don’t all need to mirror yours…

Edit: Your argument is the equivalent of talking to a Chevy forum saying “Well Ford can get 45 mpg why can’t chevy?” to which I replied “The Ford costs more money and has fewer doors” to which you replied “What does that have to do with anything?”

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Just like my users are offered PlexPass at any available opportunity. There’s a huge difference between that and it being required? Perhaps it was the wording when you asked?

To try (but apparently fail) attempt to highlight it wasn’t a hit on Plex post.

Already improved on most clients.

WTF. “Complain about the platform” ? One issue that the OP raised that I actually agree with.
So yeah I really hammered Plex didn’t I.

That’s just the most stupid comparison I have ever seen. They are both similarly priced Media servers. Maybe the Plex Dance isn’t a bug its a feature and adds added value to Plex though.

#sycophants’r’us

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Over time this is solving itself as the kids get older and the libraries can be merged (or retired) but surely this is a simple database issue on the server side that could bed addressed, even if it’s only for the cross over of actors between TV Shows and Movies.

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It is so apparently the solution is buy a Chevy.

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What is already improved on “most clients” ?? The matter at hand? Where actors movie filter/search don’t cross between libraries?

Not what I was told, I was pretty explicitly told they needed to be a part of a premier account (which I infer is similar to plex home) or pay for premier themselves… So if this is the case, it makes Emby a more expensive platform than Plex, which is why I said “The Ford costs more and has fewer doors”.

Yes, you added no help or value re-read your post:

we’ll start with the first line “It’s one thing I have never really got my head around in Plex.” adds no value, or insight, just an observation.

Then: “It’s just so stupidly limiting” ← A complaint

And then finally: “the green variant of Plex happily pulls in Movies, Shows and for the more vocally talented actors/actresses their albums too.” ← a justification for your complaint

So “Sycophant” all you want man, you came in, complained, added no value or help, and compared to a competitor’s product for really no reason other than “You agree with the limiting factor.” That’s all fine and well, but it was also in direct reply to me, so, I chose to engage you in your discourse…

And now you’re drawing false equivalences. Plex Dance is neither a bug nor a feature, it’s a tool that one uses to correct a mismatch in the database that is stuck, and the fact it’s stuck is neither a bug nor a feature, it’s how their chosen database seems to work. Prove me otherwise…

You’re taking an analogy too literally. Though, I was told all users need to be a part of a premier plan in some way, so… It works as an analogy even if taken literally when speaking about the pricing… If it’s not that way, I’m happy to hear it, but that would mean they need to really work on their wording.

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Oh yeah, it could be… but I don’t see it happening… there’s about a million other requests out there that have gone unanswered, and this one seems like it would be pretty low on the totem pole… But if you want to make a change, you could go to the feature requests page and request it and vote on it… That will at least allow others to vote and show plex that it’s something that is desired…

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People want things both ways.

They want separate libraries to keep stuff separate.

But they also want separate stuff kept together.

You can’t win.

FWIW, there is no reason why actors/artists could not be global across all libraries, with content separated, much like how collections work.

It just simply isn’t how plex has it implemented.

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Yep, and that was my point… Like, we gotta work within the confines of how it is until things change… I agree that it should be different and George Clooney should display ER as well as his movies, it just isn’t that way for now… But as long as it keeps content separation by whatever someone has access to that works… cause I wouldn’t want the kids watching Boy Meets World, and in the “More with Maitland Ward” list, it shows her porn movies, lol… That would be bad form :smiley:

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Is that now not allowed on these forums, making observations I mean?

So sadly you were told wrong! Its works more or less the same as PlexPass assuming the server admin has Emby Premiere. None of that admins users have to pay anything with the exception of mobile apps, again in the same way as Plex. The other guy was right it may ask them to buy Emby premiere but as he said thats only in the same way that Plex offers non PlexPass members to sign up. It is not and never has been a requirement.

And someone was pretty much mocked for suggesting that Plex impementation is poor and suggesting the way it is, is the way it should be.

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Nope, it was an observation, and that’s certainly allowed. The meat of my argument against his post came after that. It was a complaint, after he said it wasn’t a complaint. It also added no value to what was going on, and it was a direct reply to me, not a reply to the thread overall…

Perhaps, but without finding information to the contrary, and without being able to ascertain from their own literature what’s a paid feature and what isn’t, I gave up. And I even said in my reply “If that’s not the way it is, I am glad to hear it, but that means Emby needs to work on a clear message”.

No one was mocked, and I certainly did not make the argument that it is that way, and it should be that way. Just that until it actually gets corrected, we must work within the confines of what we have, and with Plex being slow to implement anything user requested (and when I say slow I mean there’s feature suggestions with a ton of votes that have been there for years that have never gotten implemented), we should focus on what can be done, rather than comparing it to a competitor product for no other reason than to express displeasure, go create your own “I wanna complain about plex” post for that crap… Don’t reply to me when all I am doing is helping another user out :wink:

Edit: And to be fair Samba, I did reply rather cordially the first time around, asking questions, and stating I could be wrong, but that’s the way I thought it was… His reply to that reply is what sent things in motion from there…

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Well I really didn’t see much at all from either side.
The other op simply pointed out he wished that particular feature worked more like Emby but also added along the way that overall he was happier with Plex. I wouldn’t really say that was a complaint about the platform.

But heyho…in the long run we all know that Plex will do what they will do and force feed how great it is.

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