Issue with Collections

[KodiUser1138]

I manually curate my collections as Jellyfin doesn't seem to be able to handle such tasks with any decent automation outside of maybe the boxsets plugin which I don't bother with. This worked well enough prior to JF 10.9.4 when something in Collection handling changed and now the auto generated XML files in the Collections folder from Program Data is just ignored so making manual changes there or importing Collections just fails.

For my collections I've added a lot more than just grouping certain movies together. I've included relevant TV Shows, music soundtracks and for some even the posters from an image library. It does make it nice to put everything together into one place but it does take work to maintain since JF saves each entry by it's direct path location and if anything changes to that then a "new" entry needs to be added.

I'm also not overly fond of Collections grouping everything together without the option to have items in the collection grouped by the same library types as the main library. When I add a concert performance from my Concerts library to a collection it just shows up alongside all the movies for the collection, as well as Movie Trailers which I don't spend much time on metadata so they can just end up anywhere.

Over in Kodi I have a collections section that is easily built by using smart playlists which can pull media from title/sort title, director, actor and most effectively tags. That began my journey to using specific tags for my library and now I have Kodi sections built around award winners which I find very useful. I'm not going to spend another hundred hours re-adding all those films to so many categories within JF to have my Oscars collection though, not when such a simple solution exists on my main client.