Movie Viewing Order

[kbeck 75]

I've recently realized how great the TV Show view order is. The ability to place a special episode between normal episodes helps story continuity. I realized that option is not in Movies. I think the only way to view Movies chronologically is to create a Playlist. Would be really great if we could have a field set in movies or collections that would allow us to set the order. Star Wars is rather simple, 3 original were storywise the 3 middle "episodes". X-Men..... bounces all over the place. The problem with Playlists is if you have to move or rename some items, the playlist will not find them on its own, they just disappear from the list unless you readd them or manually fix the playlist file. Having this built in to the Metadata would be a real plus. 

[Amything 138]

You didn't mention sort names, maybe you don't know about them, you can do stuff like this:

 

Custom sort ordering in collection would be amazing. Not only for franchises but using plugins to sort by popularity/trending and things like that. Please upvote 

 

[kbeck 75]

9 hours ago, Amything said:

You didn't mention sort names, maybe you don't know about them, you can do stuff like this:

 

Custom sort ordering in collection would be amazing. Not only for franchises but using plugins to sort by popularity/trending and things like that. Please upvote 

 

I know about Sort Names but prefer to keep them close to the Original. Especially on the Collections that are not consistent. Like X-men ... X-Men, X2, Dark Phoenix, Logan, Wolverine would have to be all X-Men 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. But I may have to rethink it later if no other solution works.

[ebr 16655]

So, this is a dup of this?

 

[kbeck 75]

13 hours ago, ebr said:

So, this is a dup of this?

 

As far as manually sorting, yes. I looked but didn't see it. The problem with pulling any kind of chronological order is on some there no 2 that agree on what that order is. Combine this that that thread or lock it if you want.