Question about Plex collections
reddit / selfhosted

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Crazy-Hall8823 · 2023-11-12 00:26

So I’ve been using Plex for a while now because jellyfins Xbox app
sucks. I love Jellyfin and the one thing I’m missing from Plex is the
collections. I tried to get collections where they will automatically
group related movies together but it appears I have to manually tag
each movie? Could anyone give me some clarity on this please

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Legitimate_Farm_3095 · 2023-11-12 01:04

does this not have the answer?
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201273953-collections/

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lesigh · 2023-11-12 02:16

Time to self host Plex meta manager PMM

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Nintenuendo_ · 2023-11-12 02:19

Yeah I gave up on handling collections manually, wayyyyy too much
work.

Introducing: [Plex Meta Manager](https://metamanager.wiki/en/latest/#)

go this rout, and don't look back

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Nightwish612 · 2023-11-12 03:48

Why not Emby? Jellyfish was forked from Emby but I've never had issues
with Emby when I did with Plex. Emby has even impressed me enough that
they actually got a lifetime subscription out of me

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Crazy-Hall8823 · 2023-11-12 08:51

Apparently code is really outdated or something with Emby?

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Crazy-Hall8823 · 2023-11-12 08:52

Excellent thank you for the easy straight to the point answer. I did
look at this but closed it out because I thought there much have been
an out of the box implementation but there’s not so I’ll look back at
it for sure! Thank you

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Crazy-Hall8823 · 2023-11-12 08:52

On it! Thank you!

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Heas_Heartfire · 2023-11-12 09:09

Take a look at this:

[https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/5ntgxd/psa\_automatic\_movie\_
collection\_tags/](https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/5ntgxd/psa_a
utomatic_movie_collection_tags/)

Also make sure "automatic collection size" inside your library
settings is set to a number of your preference. I believe it is
disabled by default. Mine is set at 2.

And then you can also hide elements within a collection on your
library so it looks cleaner.