I just love the now collection feature, but for some reason it seems to no respect the “sort title” but just list the movies like the were released. This is of course usually OK but for Star Wars I would like to have listede the episodes as 1-7 and not 4-6, 1-3 and 7. The same goes for Lord of the rings and the Hobbit, I would like them in the same collection, but they should be listed Hobbit 1-3 and LOTR 1-3 and not the other way around.
Is it possible to get the collection to respect the sort title?
@Daninino said:
Nevermind found the solution, go to advanced for the collection and choose alphabetically
Is there a way to force this as default?
There “should” be a way to choose the default sort. For me sorting by release date almost never makes sense.
Also each client should have a way to change the chosen sort option and a way to apply further filters. An example is suppose I remember that “Sean Connery” has stared in a few science fiction films (we do not count the Bond films although there was a LOT of science that was pure fiction in them) but I cannot remember the names of all of them and I would like to watch a few. I already have a “Sean Connery” collection but it is pretty big if I could filter that collection by genre I would have in front of me the set of science fiction movies I would like to select from.
This needs to be at the client level because if I am looking for a movie to watch going to my server is somewhat inconvenient.
@Daninino: not at the moment… consider this was only released a few days ago as beta, so there’s a chance to get this added. Maybe you can raise this a s a feature request in the Feature Requests subforum.
@Elijah_Baley: I consider what you describe is more of a custom playlist (filter by actor + genre, save it as playlist – should be auto-updated when you get a new Sean Connery movie). I agree, things are getting a little confusing… in the past everybody could pick/use collections as they pleased, now that there’s “consequences” (as in “the field has an actual impact on the look & feel”), we’ll have to re-learn how to use it.
There’s certainly some room to further grow this. Right now it appears Collections is working best for actual movie series such as “Star Wars” or “Harry Potter”. However even those two already get tricky if you want to distinguish e.g. Star Wars main canon vs. Star Wars stories (same for Harry Potter with the releases of the Fantastic Beasts movies). I’ve been using Collections to e.g. bundle Pixar movies – should have been a filter too, however since they’ve been bought by Disney, their new movies are listed as Disney movies. Here it’s more about do you still want to see the individual movies inline even if you want other collections (such as Star Wars) to be grouped behind their collection entry.
(and so on and on… – my take: let it grow on me for some time and then go for feature requests).
Playlists of any kind are virtually useless for what I described. I do NOT often know ahead of time what I want to watch and as I browse things pop into my mind and I do NOT want to go to my server to create a playlist or a custom filter or anything else.
I know Plex will say that we (users) are too stupid to handle choice at the client level BUT many features that are server only really need to be implemented at the client level.
There is currently a known bug with listing in collections where the change to alphabetical isn’t always respected (it doesn’t take affect). It is being investigated and worked on.
