I’m having issues with Continue Watching as well as of late (past month or so?).
There’s new media added in the library and I see them fine in “Recently Added” but they don’t show up in “Continue Watching”.
I managed to get one show to appear by marking the entire show as watched and then unwatched on the last 2 episodes and then the show appeared in Continue Watching.
When looking at that shows page though it DID say On Deck below the poster, but it still didn’t show up on Continue Watching until I did the above.
As per the discussion I’ve also checked on Android and in the specific library and they don’t show up in Continue Watching there either.
This is really annoying as it used to work perfectly up until this past month or so.
I started a new show last night and marked the first two episodes as watched and it doesn’t show up at all in Continue Watching.
If I enter the show page it doesn’t show On Deck either below the poster.
Playing an episode in the browser indeed do make it show up in Continue Watching, whereas marking it watched does not.
Initially it replaced one of the 3 items in Continue Watching on my Home page, but after a bit the replaced item came back in addition to the recently watched show.
My setting for “Maximum number of Continue Watching items” is set to 40, so it should not only be 3 items…
I hope you can find a solution or release a fix in forms of an update.
I think this is now the intended behavior, whether we like it or not. Those of us that watched things outside of Plex and manually mark things as watched can no longer use the home page’s “Continue Watching” section, and now instead have to rely on the Watchlist’s “Continue Watching” section.
Hmm, actually, I watched it on my plex server and i have watched tags with sync on… So that must be why. But it still does not explain why it wasn’t showing when i sent it to you.
Is there some way i can load this db up and ignore the watch status? How did you do it?
I’d much rather have a setting as for how this works.
Let us choose if we want to record watch history when marking as watched or if we only want to record it when actually playing the item through Plex.
Having the same issue, continue watching was pretty stable, anything that wasn’t, I’d mark last played episode as unwatched then watched and it would return to continue watching. Now last few weeks, simply isn’t working, new seasons not showing, if it weren’t for trakt, I’d have totally lost where my season tracking is.
Just to add feedback. I can appreciate that the change to have items simply marked as “Watched” to not create a log entry most likely was made to address a request or concern. Unfortunately as some others have mentioned it causes problems with the way some use the software.
My household uses multiple media servers. Most access our Plex Server, but I typically watch my shows using a different method and then just manually update my watched status in Plex to keep it current. With this change my “Continue Watching” list on the Home page no longer functions as it originally did and has become less useful.
As someone mentioned maybe there should be an advanced option to have items marked watched rather then actually played to still create a log entry so Continue Watching would track these items like it used to.
I’m experiencing the same thing here. Running PMS on macOS Version 1.40.1.8227.
I’ve been watching shows on a streaming service and marking them watched manually on Plex and it no longer shows up in Continue Watching. I use Plex as a central guide of what I want to watch, so having the show in that list is very helpful.
Reflection on my observation: After a thorough period of debugging and testing, here’s what I’ve discerned:
Adjusting the “Weeks to Consider for Continue Watching” setting beyond 52 weeks resulted in older shows reappearing at the forefront of the Continue Watching list, invariably.
Reverting the setting to approximately 30 weeks caused these older shows to vanish.
With the threshold set below 52 weeks, newer seasons of shows tended to appear near the top of the Continue Watching queue. Conversely, setting the threshold above 52 weeks relegated these newer seasons towards the bottom, if they appeared at all.
The rationale behind these occurrences remains elusive, but as a temporary remedy, I’ve purged my Continue Watching list, which seems to have stabilized it for now. However, the true test awaits the release of a new season in the coming 3-4 weeks.
Ideally, any new season should automatically position itself at the front of the Continue Watching list regardless of settings, but that’s not currently reflected in my experience. This suggests an underlying flaw in the logic or query governing the Continue Watching feature.
Would any Plex staff be able to shed light on how the Continue Watching feature works and its ordering function? Its inner workings seem opaque, making troubleshooting or validation of this issue challenging. Insight into this matter would greatly facilitate pinpointing the problem or alternatively, dismissing it as a non-issue.
This is my issue, I want to be able to que up something into Continue Watching when I watch the previous episode somewhere else and mark it as watched, now I am not able to do that.
Yeah I’m still having these issues too. Currently have 2 shows not populating in the continued watching area. Doesn’t matter if I manually watch the episode before, mark it as watched, etc, they refuse to show up. Any update from Staff on this?
Nice, we made one of the few features, that actually worked, buggy. Whats next? The playback?
It worked fine before so why the need of the change and if you do a change why not getting an extended feedback cycle before rolling it out to everyone?
I have a few series which i have actually watched in plex but which are not showing in “continue watching”. Sometimes I watch an episode and when the next episode drops and it is somewhere in the middle of “continue watching” when i am pretty sure i haven’t watched some of those series before them in weeks.
I currently cannot see any kind of pattern behind it. The only thing that i could think of is the difference in player, since I sometimes watch in the webui, sometimes on an LG TV and sometimes in the android app.
My Continue Watching carousel has straight up disappeared. I figured as stuff might have dropped from it as it was past the threshold, but I added a new series on Friday and it didn’t show, I watched the first episode today and it still doesn’t show.
This isn’t what we’re talking about though.
We’re talking about when you’ve watched all episodes of a show, and then there’s a new episode released.
In the past they all showed up in Continue Watching as an unwatched episode.
Since the mentioned update though, some shows won’t show up, nor will premieres of shows you’ve watched a good while back (last year or longer?).
The thing is we don’t all watch our media using Plex, but we all do mark them as watched in Plex to keep track of where we are in a show. Since the mentioned change, apparently new episodes of a show in progress won’t be added to Continue Watching if you’ve only marked it as watched, and not actually watched it.
It’d be great if we could have an account (?) setting that lets us choose between the old way and the new way it works.
For example if I mark an episode as watched, I want it to also be added to the View History, which is how it used to be back when Continue Watching worked properly (in our opinion).
Now when we mark an episode as watched it doesn’t create the view history entry, and thus breaks the functionality of Continue Watching.
I’m mainly using Web to mark my episodes as watched.
Given all the changes made, and how other major changes have been handled, I don’t see them offering an “Old way” option because that “old way” was dependent on Python code which has now been removed (Python is not secure / easily corruptible)
What I can, and will gladly do for everyone, is identify what’s missing or broken and then champion getting it/them fixed as well as championing additions needed.
As I’ve always known things
Marking something as watched SHOULD BE as good as actually watching it.
When you stop (in the middle of) watching something (episode or movie)
– It is added to Continue Watching so you can come back and finish it.
On Deck is “What’s next to watch”
These two points:
If I’m watching a show but get interrupted mid-episode (same for movies), It will be in Continue Watching when I come back
I finish the episode (real or mark as watched) then stop watching anything. The next episode of that show will be in On Deck (next to watch).
Please help me here:
Marking anything as watched should remove it from Continue Watching andshould be added to the View History. This feels like a bug (?)
If I interrupt the playback of anything (movie or episode) THAT is “Continue Watching”.
If I’ve finished , say, Season 2 Episode 2, and S02E03 is next,
then it’s “On Deck” / “Up Next”.
This is where the naming / concept is an issue.
Am I,
Well, they’re both aren’t they?
This is an episode that I actually still have in “Continue Watching”, and it’s unplayed completely:
If I go into that show it does show as “On Deck”:
However, for let’s say a new show, it doesn’t show up if you start marking episodes as watched.
It’s not only new shows, some older previously watched won’t show up in the “Continue Watching” section either.
But this latest example, Fallout which was recently released, never showed up in Continue Watching/On Deck, even if it took me a few days to get through, and marking my way through it over several days:
The shows that actually do show up I can unmark the latest episode, and that will put it back “On Deck” if you look at the shows detail page, but if I unmark for example Fallout, the “On Deck” portion under the poster is missing, and therefore it’s also missing from Continue Watching.
Even when I’ve marked all of Fallout as watched (all episodes) it doesn’t say “Watched” under the poster. However it does say “Watched” under the shows that are showing up in Continue Watching if I unmark an episode.
Example:
I hope this makes sense…
EDIT: I guess it’s the On Deck (which is included in Continue Watching) that might be broken, because of the View History not getting an entry (or something like that)?
I’m going to do this in pieces in hopes of me understanding / communicating better.
A new show should show up in Recently Added SectionName
Dr Oakley is a series I’ve had for some time. It was all “watched”.
I decided to start watching again
It shows in Continue watching because the episode isn’t finished. (maybe a small bug here being in both lists ??)
“The Continental” is the same situation.
“Bobby Kennedy” is newly acquired.
Recently Added TV shows my existing series “MasterChef” which just got new episodes.
I also capture “MasterChef (UK)”. That’s not listed at all. That’s a bug to me.
shows which have been in the DB LONGER than my 16 weeks for "Continue Watching – aren’t listed when they get a new episode but newly reloaded / re-added series/episodes are isted.
MasterChef (US) is not “Recently Added” (Finale was Sept 20,2023)) – more than 16 weeks ago.
IN COMPARISON
Using another media server for discussion’s sake.
“Current/New” mode where “On Deck/Up Next” and Continue Watching are combined
I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen the separated view (Legacy), the On Deck (Next up/New premieres) was always combined in Continue Watching (In Progress episodes?).
That might be why we’re thinking of different things.
That said, when I say “New” show, I don’t mean recently added per se, but more newly started watching. If I pick a show I have never watched, and mark S01E01 as watched, I expect S01E02 to be in my Continue Watching feed.
This doesn’t happen anymore, unfortunately.
If I’m understanding the settings correctly it doesn’t mean 16 weeks since a show aired, but 16 weeks since it was last watched.
So if I mark a completely unwatched shows first episode as watched, the second episode should be in Continue Watching (Up Next) for 16 weeks before E02 drops off.
Along with that the Premieres should always be added, so you don’t miss out on your shows starting back up for a new season (regardless of how long ago you watched it)
as a reference, which is preferred, Current or Legacy
