For some time, I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to create a single place to catalog our ripped digital content (on our NAS) with owned titles on services like Vudu or Google Play. Plex has worked ok for this, as I’ve created a short “dummy” clip that I duplicate on the NAS with the movie/show name each time we buy something on Vudu, for example. This makes our library on Plex all inclusive, but I need to remember which service or app to switch to in order to watch content like this.
The Discover feed is a great new feature that can even open a title on the desired app. I would like to request a feature where we could create a list of movies or shows that we own and mark the target service to click through to the title on the desired service. A few ideas for this could be (these may be versions of the same thing):
- Create a Discover category for owned content or somehow show watchlist titles along with Plex Media Server content. I think differentiating owned content only via a different tag or category would probably be desired.
- Allow “virtual” titles to be added to the Plex media library, specifying or using the preferred streaming services (a la Discover). Then we could click through to the title.
- Show preferred streaming services (a la Discover) as a row on existing Plex library titles. This way the “dummy” clips mentioned above could click through to the correct service.
Anyway, just an idea from a happy user. Thanks for the great work!
