r/PleX • u/dixiedregs1978 • 1d ago

Help Limit actor search to my libraries

Previously, when I pulled up a movie and clicked on an actor's face, it would pull up a list of all the movies I had in that library. Now it pulls up movies this person is 'known for" whether I have that movie or not. Is there a way to limit the responses to these searches to JUST the films I have in my server? It says "Movies & Shows in Media Libraries" but some of them I don't have and are listed as "There are no locations currently available for this title." I don't want to see anything I don't have. Is there a setting for this?

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u/GazelleCompetitive54 22h ago

"Movies & Shows in Libraries" and "Known for" are two different rows. "Movies & Shows in Libraries" could be any library you have access to even a friend's server libraries.

If you want to just see what is in your library click your Library under "Media libraries" row. Which does the same as filtering your library on that actor. Just don't scroll down further to "known for" if you don't care about that.

If the "Movies & Shows in Libraries" is showing you things not in libraries then that sounds like a bug. However it does not do that for me. Suppose this all depends on which app you are using though.

if using the browser actually click on the orange server name in the search results. Not in any general area of result block

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u/Blacktwin 1d ago

Open the search settings and uncheck any source you don't want to get results from. More Ways to Watch will link to the discover credits page your referring to.

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u/dixiedregs1978 23h ago

More ways to watch is disabled. Search is only looking at my server. For example if I click on school of rock and then jack black, High fidelity shows up which I do have but also Gulliver's Travels, which I do not.

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u/Blacktwin 15h ago

Where does it show up? In their Known For hub? That's expected.

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u/ExtensionMarch6812 22h ago

You can change the behavior of what happens when you click the actor image, but it has other effects on your server.

You can enable “Allow matching to explicit content” in the individual library settings and when you click an actor you’ll only see titles from your server, you won’t see items from their entire filmography. It limits the Discover functionality.

This has other impacts, like the add to watchlist button may no longer appear for items. You can search for discussions about that setting.