NOTE: Better display in COLLECTIONS when including Movies & TV Shows

[RLanger7228 54]

Part of my "hobby" in managing my extensive video collection is organizing PLAYLISTS related to various topics (like Film Noir, Martial Arts, Art Films, etc).  I find it makes accessing thousands of films easier & more interesting.  Some of my subjects include both Movies & TV Shows (like Documentaries).  I found that when making them into a Playlist, all the individual episodes of the TV documentaries listed individually.  This may be intuitively correct, but it makes for a "messy" and very long playlist listing,  When ordering the list by title, the show's episodes got scattered throughout the list (alphabetically).  Screenshot(SS) 1 shows a typical listing of a Playlist.  If the TV shows have many episodes (and there are many TV Shows), it would make it a very long list to scroll through.

I found that when included in Collections, each TV show just show up as a single "poster", alongside the Movies, making a cleaner display, as in SS 2.  E.g: Cosmos is a multi-episode documentary series - note the green circle in the top right corner showing the number of episodes.

When clicking the single poster of a TV Show, it takes you to the separate screen that lists all the episodes (as you would expect).  For my purposes, this makes for a more organized, intuitive display & user interface to find things related to various topics.  Playlists works very well for just Movies, and offers the advantage of a description of each video included in the listing (SS 1).  It would also work well if you wanted to add only individual episodes of a TV show to the Playlist, and not necessarily bring attention to the entire TV Show.

I just wanted to share the observation.

 

[visproduction 250]

Put only the first episode of a series in the playlist.  You have to go to the actual episode page to do this.  If you have play next episode in series turned on, the user should be given that option automatically.

Edited November 15, 2024 by visproduction

[RLanger7228 54]

Interesting!  Thank you for the suggestion.

[Luke 39648]

HI, what's stopping you from just making this a collection?

[RLanger7228 54]

I DID make it a collection.  When I made it a Playlist, the episodes listed individually & scattered alphabetically.  I was just pointing out that when I made it a Collection, the TV Show appeared as a single entity.

This was not submitted as a problem.  I was just offering (what I thought would be) a useful observation.

[RLanger7228 54]

Additional Observation:  Entire seasons can be included in Collections as well as individual episodes, each appearing as a single entity in the Collection list.