Use tags for films with multiple copies due to quality

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Hiya,

Hope all is well. Quick question for the experts.

Let’s say i have a 1080p and a 4k version of a film. Plex knows I have both versions and depending on the client allows me to easily select the version that would be best for the client device.
I give my films sharing tags. How in this situation would i give the 4k version of the film a different tag to the 1080p version or would i need to split them up?

The reason i do this is to hide the 4k version of films from some users as i know their device will really struggle (native plex app on samsung TV)

2

you can’t without splitting the items first.
there’s a number of people starting separate 4K libraries for that particular purpose.

3

Perfect. Is it possible to tell plex not to merge them by default?

4

no, Plex will always attempt to identify the actual movie and merge identical items