Use intro detection in reverse on duplicates!

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There is plenty of overlap, be it bonus content/extras/specials, Bad episode matches double episodes, split movies etc…

How about using the already existing intro detection. To detect “what part of these files are the same”

To instead detect “is the majority of these files the same (say 70 to 80%)” ← long intros and outros for short cartoons etc. Whenever plex encounters a duplicate episode/move.

If it detects that the duplicates are infact not the same, automatically “split apart” and revert to numeric order from original filenames.

Other minor requests: (not really worth separate threads)
If plex cant detect/play a file and the file type is avi, mkv, mov, etc (possibly due to a codec issue etc) instead of silently failing and it not showing up in the library, a library filter listing the offending files. Not everyone has root.

A library filter showing missing from the movie database/tvdb collections (and the date & year of release, being it may not be released yet)

being able to split apart again in nested directory’s

being able to edit and say “this directory is season 2” on split apart seasons. (perhaps extras as well)

comments in red, set by user/admin, so we can tag things like “warning: traumatic but worth it”

The majority of server uses will all speak the same language, being friendship groups in the same country. On the movie description page. Where you can pick the subtitle. Add a little lock symbol, will set this particular subtitle file/audio stream, is on by default, for all users. Of the same language (under general settings → language). This is meant to be a workaround for older plex apps on older devices that cant download subtitles. When watching foreign langue films. Admin only or user and admin privilege, defined by server admin.

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Gentle reminder to the rules for the feature suggestion forum… please don’t mix up such a mixed bag of suggestions. This way, you’ll have a much harder time to find other users who will vote for the suggestion as they agree with every last element of your post (especially if it’s relatively unstructured) – therefore they’re always worth having their own thread or more precisely to search before posting them to avoid duplicates.

As for your main suggestion

There’s an existing suggestion to match items based on a (sound) fingerprint. This is kind of the same approach you suggest – with the exception that they’re looking at matching the media this way… which implies it can also identify that items are the same / similar.

I’m inclined to consider this a duplicate.

As for your “other minor requests that are not worth separate threads”

List items that failed to scan

Plex won’t ignore files because of their content… you can even feed an empty text file to the scanner, name it like a movie file (incl. the related file extension) and that file will show up in Plex. Also, there’s already an existing suggestion asking for a report/overview within Plex to highlight such issues
→ Duplicate

Library filter showing missing items from collections

There’s an existing feature suggestion aiming at getting an overview of items missing in a collection (or even displaying them in some way as placeholders inside the collection.
→ Duplicate

Being able to split again in nested directories

Not exactly sure what this is about. Seems to be working for me… but I might be “holding it wrong” :wink:

Tell Plex which directory contains which season

There’s an two existing feature suggestions which already address this:

  1. Settings per folder under TV Shows → correction on folder level (as per your description)
  2. A possibility to correct a wrong season match → split/match based approach to fix bad assignments.

Include comments

There’s an existing feature suggestion asking for “curator notes” – basically a short message of what you might want to share with users about that movie, e.g. a warning as per your example.
→ Duplicate

Subtitle handling

That’s a major one with as many existing suggestions on how to improve/change/re-do the handling of languages.
The most prominent one is a suggestion to e.g. set subtitles for an entire show but there’s also ones that simply ask to pick up the previous subtitle selection during auto-play (e.g. for a series).
→ Lots of duplicates / similar suggestions, though not for the specific use case of “specifying subtitles for all users”. That being said, that’s an unlikely feature suggestion to be implemented given it’s based on the assumptions of users blindly adding media w/ bad/unstructured/untagged/… subtitles and some wide mass sharing that’s not on Plex’ radar.

TL;DR:

If you feel the suggested duplicate for your main suggestion does not cover your suggestion I’m ok to keep it open – focusing on only that part. Otherwise I’ll close this suggestion.

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apoligies, i did honestly try and search around for the main suggestion. its pretty tricky to define.

then my brain just exploded with the rest.

in terms of complexity my main feature request is like a bandaid
crowd sourced audio fingerprinting is like heart surgery. It would however be magical. If accepted. so please close mine. Im happy to wait a year and see if its implemented.

spiting nested directory’s would be a file structure like this:

some movie complete collection
→ 1950 movie
→ 1960 tv show
→ --> season 1
→ --> season 2
→ 1960 movie
→ 1970 tv show
→ --> season 1
→ --> season 2
→ --> season 3
→ extras

Audio fingerprinting should in theroy make this a moot point regardless of file structure.

thanks for the help, torn decisions on what to vote on.
do they replenish over time?

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Understood… there’s actually a suggestion for that too :wink:

(incl. the implied collection level extras)