[BUG] Resume behavior for episodes in smart collections - Android

[blackzwe]

Plex Android TV: 8.23.1.28053

I noticed that if you have a partially played episode in a smart collection of episodes, resuming playback from the main smart collection play button always resumes the partially played episodes from the start. This behavior is on android. iOS and tvOS resumes from where the episode left off.

[blackzwe]

Hi @romancamelia , @geosidi , @ManuelPG @marekszulik , anyone?

[geosidi]

Hey @blackzwe ,

Can you still replicate on latest version (8.25.1)?

What device are you using?

[blackzwe]

Hey @geosidi , thanks for reaching out. Yes, still same behavior. I have a Nebula Capsule 2 with Android 9, OnePlus 9 with Android 11, both have the same behavior, playing episode from collection always resumes from start, below are my filters for the collection which is purely made up of episodes:

[blackzwe]

iOS playback….

New video by Munyaradzi Marumahoko

Android playback…

New video by Munyaradzi Marumahoko

[geosidi]

Thanks for reporting, I’m going to take a look.

[blackzwe]

Just bumping this thread, any updates @geosidi ?

[geosidi]

Hey @blackzwe , sry for the late response.
I was able to replicate the issue, it looks like it’s mobile only, as it’s working fine on TV have also been able to replicate on TV but intermittently.

It is raised internally and I’ll post an update here, when we have something new.

[blackzwe]

Thanks for the update.

[blackzwe]

Hi @geosidi just bumping the thread to keep the issue alive… thanks for the support

[blackzwe]

Anyone? @sixones? Just hoping it’s still one the radar.

[blackzwe]

Anything on this? Keeping the issue alive…

[blackzwe]

Anyone still have this on their radar? @geosidi?

[blackzwe]

Anyone available? @anon18523487 , @BigWheel @geosidi. Hopefully this is still a thing… Thanks in advance.

[anon18523487]

Still opened internally. I do not have an update.

[blackzwe]

It’s all good. As long as it’s alive

[blackzwe]

Bumping this thread to keep the issue alive…

[Zturn]

In my post you said to come add my issues with smart collections here so here it is lol!

@Zturn

I made a smart collection for the arrowverse that has all of the shows in episode order and it looks great. My problem is when I click on a episode on my Apple TV iPhone or a vizio smart tv apps it takes me to the season I found a way around that by pushing and holding on the episode in the list and I can select play which is all fine and good because clicking the play at the top starts at the beginning and not where the next not watched video is at but the on deck just wants to keep playing the show season it’s in instead of the next episode in the smart collection also the the continue watching is the separate seasons and not just the arrowverse collection.

The way everyone in different forms was talking about and making these I though it would just show up in the continue watching and on deck as a big playlist type that would have the next episode in its order ready to go that is also shared across everyone I share my server with.

[blackzwe]

Good day @anon18523487 any updates on this? Is this being at least considered a bug? If so, may we please have the reference?

[anon18523487]

It’s not necessarily a bug, but an unsupported feature. When playing multiple items, Plex generates what’s called a play queue. Some clients do not notice the resume point when an item in a play queue. The app was never designed to look at it. This requires a change in the app to take those offsets into account. You’ll see the same if you play an entire show or season, and for playlists.

There are internally filed issues to bring parity to all the clients.