I’m creating collections in my music library, and I want to select a whole bunch of albums at once to add them to a collection. These albums for the different collections I want to create are already organized in my music folder. I would like to use the folder sort view in plex-web to select a whole sub-directory in my main music folder at a time to create a new collection.
If this is possible it would save me a ton of time. I can’t figure out how to select a whole folder though if it’s possible. I see that once you navigate to the bottom of a directory to see music files, you can select those. There doesn’t seem to be an obvious way to select the directories above that though.
You can use an advanced filter to select items based on their folder location. This will work for all top-level library folders, though not on a more granular level.
If this is the folders you’re looking for – you could simply create a smart collection from that filter. This means any albums added to that library-folder will automatically be added to your collection.
Otherwise you could multi-select the albums you’re looking for and use the multi-selection action / command bar to add the selected albums to a collection in one go.
I’m not super sure I understand what you’re trying to achieve.
This directory contains like 15 albums, singles, and EP’s. So do a dozen other directories that are nested deep within my /music/soundtracks directory. It would be nice to just be able to select all the albums, singles, and EP’s within a whole directory recursively to add them all to a collection at the same time. Instead I have to find each record in my music library manually, and add them one at a time since items belonging to the same anime, TV, or film property may have multiple unique artists who made the music for the soundtrack.
If you could open the folders view in the music library of plex-web, and select all the items in a folder this would save so much time.
