Is there a way to have a "No Order" filter for Collections

[RoyH 12]

I have for example X-Men movies in release date order in my collection but wanted to create a second collection for them in Chronological order so I can see the order in which they were meant to be viewed also. I am trying to get both orders in separate folders but only able to achieve one or the other.

Is there a way to add a no order in the filter for a collection folder so that I can move around the movies how I want rather that "Date added" , "Title" etc.

Or is there another way to do it.

Chronological order

·         X-Men: First Class (1962)

·         X-Men: Days of Future Past (past events)

·         X-Men: Apocalypse (1983)

·         Dark Phoenix (1992)

·         X-Men Origins: Wolverine (1979)

·         X-Men (2000)

·         X2: X-Men United (2003)

·         X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

·         The Wolverine (2013)

·         Deadpool (2016)

·         Deadpool 2 (2018)

·         Logan (2029)

·         The New Mutants (2020)

·         Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 

 

Release order

·         X-Men (2000)

·         X2 (2003)

·         X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

·         X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

·         X-Men: First Class (2011)

·         The Wolverine (2013)

·         X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

·         Deadpool (2016)

·         X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

·         Logan (2017)

·         Deadpool 2 (2018)

·         Dark Phoenix (2019)

·         The New Mutants (2020)

·         Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 

[GrimReaper 4739]

No that is currently not feasible (unless Sort Titles used, but that'd affect those movies placement in the main library view, as well). 

There's a FR for Custom Sort Order but it was redirected to another functionally equivalent FR which is now tagged as "Completed" although it doesn't include custom sorting. I reckon that'll need some adjustment. 

@ebrIMHO either Custom Order FR should be unlocked and be retained independently:

or broader Sort and Filter FR should have "In-progress" tag instead of "Complete", as it obviously does not include requested.

Thanks

Edited November 2, 2025 by GrimReaper

[mrmixed 77]

Just to mention the direct workaround up front, instead of two collections, you could alternatively set up two Playlists.  (This was also discussed further in the second link @GrimReaperposted above.)

But to make it work for a single Collection (and assuming you had the main library set to group items into collections), it would be easiest to use custom Sort Titles as Grim suggested and toggle your view between release and title sorting.  For example, you can achieve the custom sort by setting the Sort Title of each movie to something like "01_X-Men: First Class (1962)"?  If you were not grouping into collections, a title of "X-Men_01_First Class" would at least sort half of them into the correct place.

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Finally, just to suggest another option, if you kept all of the movies in the same folder, you could use Folder View with custom sort titles and toggle between the title vs release sequence the same way as above.  This would also have an added benefit of allowing you to keep X-Men titles adjacent to other Marvel/superhero content, along the lines of a pseudo-nested collection.  It's also less work to maintain as you eventually add more titles into this folder.

That said, depending on whether the movies themselves are organized in subfolders or as standalone movie files, you may be limited in this approach if you have already upgraded to 4.9.  See https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/143009-emby-folder-display-issue/page/5/#findComment-1488145 for details.

 

(It wouldn't be a @mrmixedpost if I didn't mention Folder View...  )

 

[ebr 16172]

On 11/2/2025 at 12:22 AM, GrimReaper said:

either Custom Order FR should be unlocked and be retained independently

I think this is the most correct thing to do.

[GrimReaper 4739]

4 minutes ago, ebr said:

I think this is the most correct thing to do.

Topic unlocked, prefix removed. Thanks.