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RE: Smart Playlists? - dinsten - 2025-09-11
I mean, the logic to switch from creating playlists to creating collections wasn't too hard, most of the code could be re-used. But still, it will of course entail more work in future developments. I'm open to supporting Collections, either via the SmartPlaylist plugin, or with a new plugin, but I'd like to know that this is a feature that more than 1 person (no offense 😄) actually want and will use.
If you want to you, you can create a feature request for this here, https://github.com/jyourstone/jellyfin-smartplaylist-plugin/issues. Please describe how you would want it to work with Collections. Basically the same as the plugin works now, but for Collections? Or something else as well?
If this request gets enough upvotes/comments, I'll look into it more.
RE: Smart Playlists? - KodiUser1138 - 2025-09-11
No I DEMAND you make this for me and ONLY me!!!! Haha of course I hope this is a feature many others would like, even some who don't know it yet.
I haven't been able to get that smartplaylist plugin to work. Unsure why. MY initial feedback is that it only works with tags and the smart playlists from Kodi are able to include multiple types of varials. Title, sorttitel, name, tag, studio, etc.
RE: Smart Playlists? - dinsten - 2025-09-11
I also found this fork of the plugin I mentioned, which seems to work for most and adds more functionality. Maybe this is what you're actually looking for? https://github.com/KeksBombe/jellyfin-plugin-auto-collections
RE: Smart Playlists? - KodiUser1138 - 2025-09-11
Dang son, you doing all the work for me! I will certainly check this out once I get people off my server so I can restart it haha. But it looks like it might provide all the functions I'm hoping for? Very much appreciate you finding this stuff out!
I've checked out the plugin and found it works but has some kinks. It's not full featured and doewsn't (yet) include other media types like music. So while it does automate some thing, it's not as full featured as I'm hoping to one day get to.
Another concept I've had is for nested/sub collections. Basically for my awards tagging. I can have 1 main collection called AWARDS and then each has a nested collections for Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA etc. and then each of those have nested collections for Year and Category and then each of those have nested/sub collections for that heading. It's all donw very seamless in Kodi through smart playlists and a custom veiwtype I created and works awesome! But no idea what levels or magic are needed to implement something similar in Jellyfin.
RE: Smart Playlists? - KodiUser1138 - 2025-09-13
Noting for myself (and maybe others) while working to clean up my current collections I discovered if you make a folder in the Collections folder and then nest sub-folders in there for collections..... those work much like the concept of multiple layers of collections for the awards and so on. Will test more but that's promising! This is for base JF Collections though I'm sure can be worked into any of these plug-ins.