Curated Community Playlists

[apriestley]

Hello, I'm new to the forum.

I'm wondering if there exists a kind of "curated" list of collections or playlists, perhaps community-maintained, particularely for TV shows. Some examples might include "Best of the X-Files", or "The Simpsons Golden Age". Or even theme, or category-based lists, like Christmas or Halloween specials. Sometimes you want to throw on a show, and you don't have a specific episode in mind, but you're in a certain mood. I guess I'm trying to save myself some work. 

If such a collection does exist, could there be a plugin that might be set up to automatically pull from it using the media you have set up in JF?

[TheDreadPirate]

Unfortunately, the way that collections works is that they are a list of file paths. So they are not sharable.

Here is an example collection XML I have. (Scroll down a bit to get to the file names)

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Item>
  <ContentRating>PG</ContentRating>
  <Added>02/17/2024 18:57:10</Added>
  <LockData>false</LockData>
  <Overview>The Harry Potter films are a fantasy series based on the series of seven Harry Potter novels by British writer J. K. Rowling.</Overview>
  <LocalTitle>Harry Potter Collection</LocalTitle>
  <PremiereDate>2001-11-16</PremiereDate>
  <DisplayOrder>PremiereDate</DisplayOrder>
  <ProductionYear>2001</ProductionYear>
  <TmdbId>1241</TmdbId>
  <Genres>
    <Genre>Fantasy</Genre>
    <Genre>Adventure</Genre>
  </Genres>
  <Studios>
    <Studio>Warner Bros. Pictures</Studio>
    <Studio>Heyday Films</Studio>
    <Studio>1492 Pictures</Studio>
    <Studio>P of A Productions Limited</Studio>
    <Studio>Patalex IV Productions Limited</Studio>
  </Studios>
  <CollectionItems>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>/media/library/Movies/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2.mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>/media/library/Movies/Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>/media/library/Movies/Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets/Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>/media/library/Movies/Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban/Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>/media/library/Movies/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire/Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>/media/library/Movies/Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix/Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix.mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>/media/library/Movies/Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince/Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
    <CollectionItem>
      <Path>/media/library/Movies/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1.mkv</Path>
    </CollectionItem>
  </CollectionItems>

Obviously, it is extremely unlikely that two users are going to have exactly the same folder structure and file names.


BUT, in the official plugin repo is the TMDB Boxset plugin that will automatically detect what is in your library and bundle movies into boxsets (collections). But not necessarily in the way you want.

[apriestley]

That makes sense!
I guess I shouldn't have used the term "collection" -- I don't mean it in the context of a Jellyfin collection, but rather what I had in mind was a publically queryable database or something like that.
I'm imagining a plugin for JF that might query the database through a web API, and create the collections dynamically for the media you have as a scheduled task.

[TheDreadPirate]

The plugin I mentioned, TMDB Boxset plugin, does that.

[apriestley]

Ty for the info. I'll have to keep an eye out for something similar for TV shows.