Manually add to collection?

[podonnell]

I see the setting:

> Group movies into collections
> Movies in a collection will be displayed as one grouped item when displaying movie lists.

Which is enabled (by default?), but I am not seeing collections properly showing up.

I also see there is this setting:

> When at least 2 movies have the same collection name, they will be automatically added to the collection.

So, my questions are:

1) How do I see what/where a 'collection name' comes from?
2) Without the second option selected, is there a way to make my own collections?

[Efficient_Good_5784]

There's a misunderstanding here. Jellyfin does not provide/create automatic collections.

You need to be the one to select shows/movies in your libraries and put them into collections (if you want them).

The setting that you're looking at is for when you're browsing a movie library. By default, the movie library will show each movie separately regardless of collections. If you enable the setting you're looking at, the movie library page will instead display collections mixed in with the other singular movies. Basically, show collections or not in the movie libraries that you have.

To manually add to a collection, you just right-click on any movie or show, then select the "add to collection" button.
You have to search online for existing collection metadata sources. Check out: https://www.themoviedb.org/
If you search themoviedb, there's a tab to the side that displays existing collections that match your search.

[podonnell]

There's a misunderstanding here. Jellyfin does not provide/create automatic collections.

You need to be the one to select shows/movies in your libraries and put them into collections (if you want them).

The setting that you're looking at is for when you're browsing a movie library. By default, the movie library will show each movie separately regardless of collections. If you enable the setting you're looking at, the movie library page will instead display collections mixed in with the other singular movies. Basically, show collections or not in the movie libraries that you have.

To manually add to a collection, you just right-click on any movie or show, then select the "add to collection" button.
You have to search online for existing collection metadata sources. Check out: https://www.themoviedb.org/
If you search themoviedb, there's a tab to the side that displays existing collections that match your search.

Ah, I see.

I do seem to have some already pre-filling, is there some type of sync that happens through those metadata providers?
Or it could be coming in from some other software I use to sync data to Jellyfin.

That said, there's no automated way of adding to collections?
I do see this plugin that I'll research if not.
https://github.com/ghomasHudson/Jellyfin...ollections

Thanks!

Edit: It seemingly also created a new Library? Collections is now appearing next to my other libraries. It also displays as something I would need to give permissions and allow others to access? Why isn't this just metadata?
I'm guessing this happened by enabling that checkbox, but I wouldn't expect a new library to need to be created.

[podonnell]

Also, why is Playlists not its own library? I had an option to make one public when I created it, but I'm unsure how to grant permission to anyone after its been created.

[Revv23]

There is a few options for plugins that auto generate collections.. Im not familiar with the one you found sadly...it actually looks pretty cool! There was one I used to use that grouped movies together that are sequel's, I cant seem to track it down at the moment.

But if you have questions about a plugin you'd probably have better luck asking on the dev's github or seeing if they have a discord or something.

[ThomasPGH]

To manually add to a collection, you just right-click on any movie or show, then select the "add to collection" button.

This is broken since 10.9 and only works sporadically. I've yet to find out why it almost never works.

[podonnell]

I'm also trying to pull in Collection images, just added Fanart as a plugin, but images are returning no results.

I've confirmed one example here:
https://fanart.tv/movie/9818/mortal-kombat-collection/

But no image found when searching Fanart:
https://i.imgur.com/dnXmdvK.png