Suggested Collections improvements // mod-edit: options for automatic poster creation

[tom80H]

There’s already a number of existing suggestions addressing those options.

@Zeeya

1. Sorting within a collection

More collection ordering methods

I would love to see in non-smart collections the same ordering methods that exist in playlists. All with ascending/descending option: Title Year Release Date Critic Rating Audience Rating Rating Content Rating Duration Progress Plays Date Added Date Viewed Resolution Bitrate Randomly The “Randomly” ordering method would be great in the movies metadata screen, specially with big collections in clients with no scrolling like ATV. In this case, every time you access a movie the Collection sectio…

@Zeeya

3. Collection playback.

Add next movie in collection to On Deck // MOD: continue watching / auto-play for collections

I think it would be great if movie collections functioned more like TV Shows with respect to On Deck logic.   If I were new to the On Deck feature, just guessing at how it works, I would expect to see Anchorman 2 appear there right after completing Anchorman 1.   This would also be a time-saver for movies in collections which are not explicitly ordered in the title.  Watching the Bond movies in order practically requires a Wikipedia check each time, Harry Potter and the TNG Star Trek movies …

*The OP is focusing on autoplay and continue watching (showing the next unwatched movie of a collection on the main page); the thread is however also discussing

I suggest you comment/vote in those threads in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes.

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I’m not sure about your second suggestion.
Most users I’ve seen prefer manually assigning a regular poster instead of the automatic poster collage.
As for the „Eastrail 177 Trilogy“… did you possibly set that poster?