Combining multiple movies into one area in Plex? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Elarionus@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Right now, it's a bit difficult to go through all of my movies. I know I can create and sort by collection, genre, etc., but it doesn't help when browsing for movies to watch. What I'd like to do is group, for example, all the Harry Potter movies together. Or all the Star Wars movies together. Right now, they take up an inordinate amount of space. Is there a way to configure Plex to have them in a sort of subfolder that expands when selected?

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[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

I add a common Collection tag (item Edit > Tags > Collections) to entries I want to group together, you can also assign multiple Collection tags to assign them to various groups. It’s tedious to setup because you can only tag them individually, but once they are they’ll show as a collection named by the tag.

If you want to exclude them from your general library, the only way I can think of is to move them into a directory not under it and create a separate Plex library entry pointing at it.