I’m looking for a feature that I don’t have a name for. Perhaps someone can point me in the right direction?
I’d like to be able to set up a playlist of TV shows such that when I start the playlist it will play one episode from each show in sequence. It should play the ‘next’ episode from each show, and at the end of the playlist it should stop playback.
The idea is to set up something like a broadcast television evening lineup that progresses from one show to the next without requiring user interaction with the TV. Each evening I can start the playlist and have my own personal prime-time lineup.
Not sure if you mean on Deck. On Deck contains the next unwatched episodes of things you are watching. and will run though them all if you have Auto play enabled on the Android TV for example.
You can also make a smart playlist or play queue of anything you can sort and filter by. Unwatched episodes by release date for example and just hit play or make a playlist. You can make custom filters as well
Which player app do you use? not all have the same features.
If I choose a show from On Deck then Up Next contains only episodes from that show. Useful when I want to watch the same show all night, but not what I’m describing here.
The filter option hasn’t been useful because many of the filtering options don’t seem to work correctly. For example:
I can build playlists manually without the filter, but they are just simple lists of episodes. This makes building up different schedules for each day very tedious. Also because playlists don’t remember position and start fresh each time, I can’t do something like building several big playlists containing several days worth of episodes that I stop manually:
I tried tagging each show I want to be in a particular list with a tag that I can use in a smart filter, and then generating a playlist from that filter. That kind of works, but each time I start the playlist it plays episodes from only one show. The next time I start the playlist it will give me episodes from the next show. What I want is three episodes from different shows with the matching tag.
It seems the best option for my particular use case may be to set up a cron’d script to generate the correct playlist each day and symlink the appropriate source files into a personal video library with the correct sequence number, and then I can just play the library.
@davidknaack@gmail.com said:
If I choose a show from On Deck then Up Next contains only episodes from that show. Useful when I want to watch the same show all night, but not what I’m describing here.
don’t choose a show. If you are using the web app select the actual words “On Deck” on the home screen then hit play on the top right, not the play button on poster. and it will play all of On Deck ( you haven’t said which player you are using so I am assuming web app.
Version 1.5.3.3580. I did see that 1.5.5.3634 is available, but I haven’t updated my Plex docker container yet.
I use the web app, the Amazon Fire app, Roku app, old Samsung SmartTV app, LG TV app, and Android app.
On Deck in the web app works as you describe, that’s cool. I don’t see a way to do that in the LG TV or Amazon Fire apps, is that supported there?
While On Deck is a useful feature, it doesn’t do what I’m looking for here. The content in On Deck changes based on other things I might watch, for example if I watch a lecture during the day On Deck may try to put more of those in the sequence when I’m trying to watch entertainment in the evening.
Ah, I found the problem I was having with the filter. You can’t just type a search word and hit ‘apply’ with the mouse, you have to first hit enter or tab to get it to accept the term, then hit ‘apply’ to see the search result. I’ll play with that a bit more.
