Right now the only way to eliminate items you have watched from the list is by deleting them. Marking them as watched they still show up. If you have more than 10 items there it can get out of hand.
Would be nice to see an option to filter watched items (especially if you are going to take the effort to go back and update the status after watching something on an external service).
When marking play they dissapear from my watchlist (atleast for movies)
As of today, when I mark something as watched it disappears from watchlist, however it is doing this by removing the item from the watchlist completely. This means when new episodes of a show come out, Iâll have to manually add that show back to my watchlist. When movies/shows have no unwatched content, the system shouldnât remove it from my watchlist it should just hide it from the watchlist (maybe with a toggle option to make them visible again).
Yes I agree today itâs impossible to track alot of shows without relying on another tracker, did also write a suggestion for that yesterday.
Yes, when I mark something in the Watchlist as Played then it disappears. The problem is that I donât have a way to filter the Watchlist to show those played items. So a filter would be useful (All, Unplayed, Played).
A count of unwatched episodes on the front page of the watchlist, would be awesome. As it stands I have to go into to show to see if there any episodes I havenât watched. This can be a pain if you are tracking lots of shows.
Filters would also be great.
New episodes should start appearing in Continue watching ( unless you have. your CW window set to extremely low). Watchlist is meant for things you have not started watching
Thanks for pointing that feature out. It took me a few minutes to find the settings related to âContinue Watchingâ and well over 5 minutes to find where the Continue Watching list exists in the interface, so I think this functionality still needs work.
Honestly, I still think it doesnât make any sense for those to be different bits of functionality.
You say watchlist is for content you havenât started watching yetâŠhowever once I start marking a show as watched ep by ep, it stays in watchlist until I mark everything as watched. If the intent is as you say, it should disappear from watchlist as soon as I watch the first ep, then it would make more sense to find that show in âContinue Watchingâ from then on.
I only see âContinue Watchingâ in my TV list, why doesnât it deserve to be on Home or Discover like Watchlist?
I canât grasp why you would want two different lists to track shows you want to watch. Look at Reelgoodâs home page. The top section is just called âwatch nextâ and it is a mix of shows you have marked as want to watch whether you have started watching them or not. They are ordered left to right in that section based on most recent interaction with the title. So as you watch something and mark it as watched it moves up to the âtopâ (left) of the list, which means shows you are currently watching are automatically further âupâ in the list than the shows you want to watch but havenât started. All the functionality I need from a watch/continue watching list in one place.
Plex could even have these things tracked separately in the app/database, but offer a check box in settings to have them combined into one list. If combined is enabled, then you just union query both lists into one result set sorted by last interaction date.
Also, since it was mentioned in the thread Filters would be nice. The biggest flaw of EVERY streaming service so far is I can say what I want to watch, but I canât say âSTOP SHOWING THIS GARBAGEâ for anything. I think a really powerful version of this could be created by using the rating field as an âinterest levelâ field for stuff you havenât watched. Then I could just have something I havenât watched marked 1 for not interested and 5 for have to watch ASAP, and inbetween allows flexibility in showing an order of stuff to watch next. Using Reelgood as an example again, I can go look at all the movies on my current streaming services and sort them by IMDB or Reelgood ratings to figure out what to watch next, but what Iâd really like to be able to do on that same screen is sort by MY rating (interest level) first, THEN by the third-party ratings. That way I can say "yeah I want to watch Casablanca eventually (IMDB 8.6), so Iâll rate it 2 or 3 interest, but I want to watch Accross the Universe (IMDB 7.3) more, so 4, and Highlander (IMDB 7.1) even more than that, so 5. This allows people to solve the endless scrolling for something to watch by prioritizing, while also allowing recommendation algorithms to be greatly improved based on the extra preference data. After watching you can basically confirm if your post watch enjoyment matched your pre-watch interest, which can also further enhance recommendation algorithms by increasing or decreasing recommendation frequency based on how often users upgrade/downgrade their final rating. Like, hey I was hyped for Transformers so I marked it 5 interest, but after watching it I feel like it was a 3.5. If other people also marked this movie down after watching and did the same for the rest of that series, then Transformers 2 might get recommended after Highlander, even if they are both a 5 interest rating.
Sorry for the TLDR brain dump, I know a lot of this doesnât belong in this thread specifically but to me it is related functionality for fixing the âwhat to watch nextâ problem.
Continue Watching is at very top of the home screen, if anything is in it, in every single app. The Home screen will only populate the Continue watching with content of libraries/sources that you have pinned to the home screen sidebar. If you donât pin library to home screen then you can view the CW on the recommended tab of the library itself
The only other reason content for CW should not show up on the home screen is if you have a particular library set to âexclude from home screenâ in its settings, then the content from that library will not show up. If that is set for all libraries then it wonât show up
I donât need to be constantly reminded of things I might want to watch later or is not even released yet. If I am bored and/or have already finished everything I am currently watching I will look at the watchlist filtered by available and if i decide to start watching it then after i start it will be in the CW on home screen as the next episodes become available.
CW does not work for things you watch outside of Plex because we donât have a way to track episodes on another service yet
2022 clean-up: duplicate (original thread is slightly older and has more votes)
