As a recent convert from Plex to Jellyfin, I’m going through my library correcting metadata, etc. and wondered what great ideas I could glean from the community.

I don’t use collections (should I?) because, at least on Plex, I could never completely agree with myself on what should be included in a collection and what shouldn’t.

At present I tend to just sort movies alphabetically (and then in order of release, i.e. 47 Meters Down comes before 47 Meters Down: Uncaged) and I use the sort title for that. But what do you guys suggest with things such as the Star Wars movies, or Indiana Jones movies — movies that don’t have similar titles, e.g. “Star Wars”, “The Empire Strikes Back”, “Return of the Jedi” — would you have them scattered alphabetically around your library, or would you use the sort title to call them “Star Wars 1”, “Star Wars 2”, etc. so they’re all grouped together (albeit breaking the alphabetisation)?

Any other hints and tips would be appreciated!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There isn't much thinking involved in collections unless you want to make less common ones that span across franchises or something. You can also let jellyfin do it for you but I choose to do it myself.

More commonly you would just make them for related movies or series. For example I have an MCU collection that's all the marvel stuff (movies and series), and same for Star Wars. Then much more simple ones like Die Hard, which just has 3 movies in it because that's how many Die Hard movies were ever made.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haha you’re ignoring everything past “… With a Vengeance” then? Fair enough! 🙂

Maybe I’ll take a look at collections then if it’s really straightforward.