I vote for Search all metadata fields and note only titles in Plex Media Server (or at least Summary field)
I guess many would find this feature useful for different reasons, these are my reasons:
I like Plex very much but I would love it if I could be able to make it more personal. Genres itself don’t mean much to me when I want to filter movies in library with more than 4000 titles… hundreds of Science Fiction movies are just hundreds of Science Fiction movies… That is why I make collections: Time Travel movies, Heist movies, French ressistance movies, movies written by Neil Simon, Pirate movies or whatever I find useful and important to me. It is very frustrating to make such collections in such a big library but it would help a lot if I could filter movies by searching specific keywords from summary and use it to make more theme collections to easier find what I feel like watching and to make Related Movies in client making more sense…
I guess this could be regarded by other features, like importing keywords from imdb or some other db, but at this evolutional phase this could improve collection feature and take it to another level.
I strongly support “Search all metadata fields” my issue is mainly with music, The current search is practically useless for music, especially classical music. At the very least i want to search on Composer, Conductor, Artist, Album, Title, Comments.
I would also like to be able to search within metadata, particularly the summary fields. Searching for “Sherlock Holmes” in my library does not yield results for the tv show “Elementary” or other such descriptions, or locations like “New York” do not yield results for shows like “The Knick” or “Castle” or “Blue Bloods”, etc.
there are definitely issues, for example, searching for a movie that in the description, director, or production house, or … etc. music similarly, searching across composter. possibly showing collections that have that in the title. right now you only get title hits from what i can see.
Plus one for this. The biggest use case for me would be to search for “Christmas” to find movies about Christmas or “Skateboard” for movies about skateboarding etc.
The backend functionality should be there already anyway. In otherwords, it should be easy to implement; for example, I add ‘sharing’ labels to movies. I am then able to restrict my childs account to viewing movies and TV-Shows that I have ‘labelled’ as ‘Kids’.
Convenience - as mentioned in point 1, I labelled a bunch of Movies as ‘Kids’. I realized later (still playing with content control, restrictions, to manage what content my kids can see) that a ‘managed user’ can be restricted only by general terms, like ‘Younger Kids’, ‘Older Kids’ etc (why can’t I restrict them also in the same way I can other “home” users by the way???). It seems ‘Younger Kids’ are only able to see movies rated as ‘G’ (discovered this accidentally… where is it documented?). OK, so I wanted to go through and start with those movies i’d already ‘labelled’ as ‘Kids’ and rate them as ‘G’. hmmmmmm There was no way to find them all. Why can’t I search by labels? Tags? Other metadata?? Seems obvious for a media library to be able to search by more complex search terms than ‘Title’ only … and… how long as Plex been around??? I don’t get it.
Again, convenience - once a collection gets larger, … and perhaps i’ve forgotten the name of the movie I wanted to watch… but I know its in there somewhere… a bit more flexibility in the search might be useful; Plex itself seems to have gone to a lot of trouble to find information about my movies, enough to be able to show me ‘trailers’, ‘subtitles’, and other information (thats really cool, thanks Plex!!!) so … .my point is … the metadata is there. Why can’t we at least choose to (via, say, an ‘advanced’ option) be able to search it.
