As far as I know, this happens with every server version and every client version, but for simplicities sake, I will add my info, and the others I know that have the same issue can add theirs.
OS: Windows 10 Pro w/ 1909 Update
Server Version: 1.18.2.2058
Client Versions Tested:
Plex Web: Version 4.8.4
Plex for Windows: Version 1.4.1.940-574c2fa7
Description:
When playing a series, AutoPlay moves in Sequential Order from S01E13 to S02E01. However, Plex “On Deck” will show a Special if it happens to fall between the two, and you stop playing at the end of Episode 13.
For many many reasons, I would prefer AutoPlay to play with the “On Deck” order, rather than in Sequential Order. It makes more sense for playthrough in most series.
Edit: Pics of the Exhibited Behavior
First 3 Pics are of the Airdates/Play order it SHOULD be…
Final Episode of Season 01
Next 2 pics are what actually happens with On Deck vs AutoPlay. If nothing else, there’s an inconsistency.
Stopped at end of Episode 13 on Spartacus and here’s the On Deck (Desired effect and presumably what should legitimately be next):
To be clear:
I have not ever, nor will ever, use ‘AutoPlay’ as long as I live - and I’m still pissed about ‘The Post Play Screen’ I don’t need, don’t want, don’t want to see, but it’s rammed down my throat and I’m choking on it.
That’s the dam truth.
If there’s a bug in it - I’m not surprised. The whole dam thing is buggy if you ask me.
… “just one back key press”… along with the other 9 thousand key presses to do ANY - F-IN THING - like the 31 clicks to get from where you start to a Westerns Genre list…
Are you trying to get me started - and me with a brand new Plex Pass!
Once upon a time, when the item was over, you went back to library to pick again… now you have to back up, back up, back up to get out of what you never wanted to begin with, and can’t get rid of, but button presses are how Plex makes it’s living.
Press Button… Ka-Ching. Money in the bank.
All you Genre Drillers are paying ALL the bills at Plex HQ. 31 clicks to get to Westerns?
It does when you play directly from the collection. I just did it with the Bad Boys movies… However, when I tried with the …Has Fallen movies, it wanted to Play Angel Has Fallen first… despite me having them listed by Date and not Alphabetically…
I am, kinda, enjoying the annual holiday gaming fest - this year with Company of Heroes 2 (last year it was COD 9000 - WWII, or whatever) and I have discovered that my hands shake so bad I can’t reliably click a unit and make it do what I want.
Much the same reason my favorite weapon in any game is - the shotgun - or the Nade!
we do what we gotta do…
BTW:
WSA is “Whiners Suck Ass”.
There used to be about a 100 of us, wrinkled veterans, playing Battlefield Vietnam on our own servers, that played the game (several in fact) as it (they) was (were) intended - while more and more of our “guests” played ONLY to ruin our enjoyment of it.
When we had to ban everyone, but us - we realized what happened.
Our idea of a good time got old - like we did - I guess.
Juice, out of curiosity, since Firefly technically aired out of order and you used it for your example that sparked this whole thing, do you watch firefly via the actual Show Chronological order (IE the order in which they come on the DVDs) or the Airdate order?
Firefly is the ONLY show in my library that uses TVDB’s DVD order.
It is the only show, I have, where the network executives screwed the intended order up so badly - it was necessary for users to do something about it. The show doesn’t make any sense otherwise.
Those guys should be tar and feathered and run out of the bidness. They killed Firefly in one season. Had it not been for them, it would still be running and we wouldn’t have had to put up with Castle (we didn’t watch).
On FireFly’s return, Baldwin said: “Who wants to see an old Jayne?”
Who doesn’t want to see an old Jayne, is my question - and the correct answer.
