Why does the total number of movies go down when I add items into a collection? They’re still in the movie section, just a different way of organizing them.
@SteveG144 said:
Why does the total number of movies go down when I add items into a collection? They’re still in the movie section, just a different way of organizing them.
That a interesting find, it should not alter a total. This needs fixing.
@SE56 said:
@SteveG144 said:
Why does the total number of movies go down when I add items into a collection? They’re still in the movie section, just a different way of organizing them.That a interesting find, it should not alter a total. This needs fixing.
Actually I believe it is correct as the counter counts items id the current view. If you have 100 movies and you have “Hide items in a collections” enabled then if you place 4 movies in a collection you would have 97 items in the current view. (96 ,ovies and one collection) For me that is exactly the way it should be.
If you set collections to disabled the your movie count does not change when you add movies into a collection.
If you enable “Show collections and their contents” then every collection created increases the count by one.
Again the count you see is not “Movies” but rather it is the count of items in the current view.
@Elijah_Baley said:
@SE56 said:
@SteveG144 said:
Why does the total number of movies go down when I add items into a collection? They’re still in the movie section, just a different way of organizing them.That a interesting find, it should not alter a total. This needs fixing.
Actually I believe it is correct as the counter counts items id the current view. If you have 100 movies and you have “Hide items in a collections” enabled then if you place 4 movies in a collection you would have 97 items in the current view. (96 ,ovies and one collection) For me that is exactly the way it should be.
If you set collections to disabled the your movie count does not change when you add movies into a collection.
If you enable “Show collections and their contents” then every collection created increases the count by one.
Again the count you see is not “Movies” but rather it is the count of items in the current view.
But is it not “Hide items in collection” a visual position and not physical . Meaning there is still “X” movies no matter what happens. The counter is “Movies” not Media type plus or minus collections of a given Library Type.
@SE56 said:
@Elijah_Baley said:
@SE56 said:
@SteveG144 said:
Why does the total number of movies go down when I add items into a collection? They’re still in the movie section, just a different way of organizing them.That a interesting find, it should not alter a total. This needs fixing.
Actually I believe it is correct as the counter counts items id the current view. If you have 100 movies and you have “Hide items in a collections” enabled then if you place 4 movies in a collection you would have 97 items in the current view. (96 ,ovies and one collection) For me that is exactly the way it should be.
If you set collections to disabled the your movie count does not change when you add movies into a collection.
If you enable “Show collections and their contents” then every collection created increases the count by one.
Again the count you see is not “Movies” but rather it is the count of items in the current view.
But is it not “Hide items in collection” a visual position and not physical . Meaning there is still “X” movies no matter what happens. The counter is “Movies” not Media type plus or minus collections of a given Library Type.
Edit: But the option does say exactly; “Hide items which are in collections” and to me “hide” means exactly that.
The counter does NOT say movies or anything else, it is just a counter.
But anyone is free to interpret it any way they choose.
I do see that it would be easy to assume that it counts movies just because it is on the same row as the word movies but that row also includes how the items are sorted (ex “by title”) so it could as well be that the counter is for “Number of titles” and that seems to work better than even my previous way of explaining.
But I did not design the system I just use it and the way I understand it it works perfectly. I like the fact that it tracks visible titles because in my library I use collections to reduce the number of titles that I need to scroll through to find something to watch.
I just wish the display options were on a collection basis maybe for each collection there could be the current selections and one other that would be “Use library selection.”
I do not much care about the counter though I just like the current method but if Plex chooses to change it then I would be OK with that as well.
The counter is not the number of movies. It is the number of items on the screen.
@Elijah_Baley said:
@“MovieFan.Plex” said:
The counter is not the number of movies. It is the number of items on the screen.
Thanks for the clarification.
Then that makes sense for why the discrepancy. So why would we need a visual count and not a Physical count. Number Movies, number TV shows number of Photos, number of music tracks. I would have through a counter should be of some use to correlate a Media organizer content tally.
At present all it means is the number of Posters in a library presently on screen.
There are filters you can also apply to the library. The counter is there to reflect the result of that filter (or no filter). If you want to see the number of movies, then change the view/filter/whatever so it only lists movies. Then you will get an accurate count of your movies.
