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[Lighthammer 80]

As my collection is growing, I'm finding I need better tools to manage TV Series / Movies / eBooks.

One of the difficulties of managing a larger collection starts to become overall file names that help keep similar movies / series together.

 

Currently, sections look like this:

 

In many areas of my Emby server, I started using the "Sort by name" section:

 

What would be helpful is being able to translate Sort Title into Group Title. It should come out something like this:

[PenkethBoy 2063]

can you not use genres to get a similar result?

[Luke 37116]

We TV and Movies yes he could, although I have a feeling he is using the unset (mixed) content type. Once you do that, you don't get the metadata based layouts for those specific content types.

[Lighthammer 80]

I'm shooting for user driven setups.

 

For instance, I use the "Sort by Name" to sort all the DC and Marvel Series / Movie content together and order it based on what universe it's part of.

 

So for all of the Marvel Animated Series from the 90s, they have something like "MAU - " in front of them. For all the Cinematic series, I might use "MCU - ".

 

I used my Book Headers because I happened to be doing books at the time of coming up with this idea. You guys always say great looking art helps sell the concept, so I used pretty art =).

 

In my ideal use case, we'd simply add another line under "Sort by" probably calling it "Group by". Once a Group By has been added, the view would group all things under the Sort by to the top of the list and ideally have a checked box in which you could uncheck to unbind the group by standards set down by the administrator.

Edited March 20, 2017 by Lighthammer