I'd like to propose an overhaul for a feature that is very underutilized, collection feature. Instead of using collection as a mere filtering tool, I think it would be cool to see a tree-structured collection. This allows users to pool media that are related to each other. I said media not films or …

Yeah, I pretty much do this right now… works but is far from ideal. [image]

@boboki said: I currently have to rename all my media in PMS to be like “Star wars 1, Star Wars 2, etc” so it will show in order. Collections we have currently would work decently, if they were allowed to live in the Libraries with everything else, and have it’s own section I guess. I do the sam…

@kamererhouse yes I do, but it is far from perfect. We have been asking for YEARS for plex to get distributive transcoding (check requested features for that) but a few awesome 3rd party guys pieced together a working, mostly, way to do it. [image] Plex Remote Transcoder - A distributed …

@elan said: Very cool, thanks for the mocks! Make it so, then, please.

Would love to see this work for collections such as documentaries as well. A lot of the stuff I have is a mix of both BBC Series as well as one-off documentaries that won’t “fit” well under the TV Shows tag. Upvote!

+1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 Yes, PLEASE!! Just implement the same “logic” Plex already uses for TV Shows, where a single show has episodes. In fact, if you refactor the code correctly, you can make individual items be a “show” or a “Movie”, and that will just tell Plex how to scrape and prese…

@elan said: Very cool, thanks for the mocks! Can we PLEASE see some traction with this? Is Plex looking at this? Is this on a roadmap somewhere, targeting a specific release? I’ve looked at Emby, and guess what - Emby allows you to mix Shows and Movies in a single view. This is a big usability …

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