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It would be really nice if a filter could be applied to exclude movies that are already part of any collections. I have a very large collection (1000+ movies) and right now the only way to determine if any particular movie is already a part of that collection is to open a movie and see if it's shows that movie collection icon. This gets tedious and waste a lot of time. If I could apply a filter which excluded movies that are already part of any collections, I would only see titles that haven't been added to any collections. Also, I was once told that the total number of movies in a collection would be viewable from web browsers again after that feature disappeared during a major update over a year ago.

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I cannot find it right now but there is a request out here to warn you when you are adding an item to a playlist or collection that is already there.  I think that makes the most sense for the issue you are trying to solve here.

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How does it? You'd still have to go through thousands of movies individually to make sure they were in their collections.

 

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5 hours ago, ebr said:

I cannot find it right now but there is a request out here to warn you when you are adding an item to a playlist or collection that is already there.  I think that makes the most sense for the issue you are trying to solve here.

Ok, let me try and explain the situation better. The 1000+ movie collection that I mentioned is a single collection inside of my overall much larger movie library. It's called Black Movies and right now the way that I add movies to it is I look at the covers of the movies and if it has a black actor on the cover it goes in the collection. Over the years, I know that I've missed adding a few black movies to the collection. Right now there is no easy way to find just those missed movies because I can still see the movies that have already been added. If I could apply a filter that excludes movies that are already part of any collections then I could easily find the movies with black actors on the cover that haven't been added to any collections.

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14 minutes ago, PenkethBoy said:

 "Group items into collections" does this

Indeed it does! I think I tried it once before and it didn't do anything. Apparently the trick is you have to change the sort order to Title. 

I guess we can scratch this as a feature request, although using a filter would still be nice as well.

Thanks a million!

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