Why can't I use collections without adding "junk 1 item collections" to my library?

I’ve been doing some DVR recording lately, and wanted to nicely group my videos so that they are easier to find and watch sequentially. Collections to the rescue! Or so I thought.

Why do we have to pollute our libraries with this junk? Sure, I could go in and remove the collection tag for each one of these 1 item collections, and then when I do get the next item in that collection, have that collection be busted until I manually get the modified collection. That… seems counter productive. And yet, from my research, is still the only means of managing this?

This is pretty bunk if you ask me. Just a snipping of the extra junk that ended up in my library, as I tried to organize my content a bit better. This… is sad.

Did my research lead me astray, or is this just still a terrible mismanagement?

That’s something which is being addressed in the new movie scanner/agent preview:

It will allow you to set a minimum number of items to cause an automatic collection to be created.

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Ahh… reading now. Thanks for the info!

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