The fact that this isn’t left up to the user/admin is insane. Please implement this.
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Oh man, this is a nice idea.
The OP shouldn’t just be for continuous playback, but for a (admin/server?) setting that allows anyone to customise it. eg 0 secs (continuous - no delay) up to whatever anyone wants. Some people like continuous, some people like 5 secs, some like 20, 30 , 60, 120, etc… The point is, who determines this? Plex devs don’t have ESP nor should they be revisiting this ‘feature’/function over and over again (vote on how many secs delay?). Can even get funky with it using -5 secs movie transitions 
(fade in.outs). Can also apply this to all media types (not just videos, but music, images, series, etc.).
Anyhow, if this is implemented - that’s my 2 cents worth.
…Please future proof program designs, I’ve seen enough poor ones already 
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Wow, open for almost a year and a half with over 70 votes and no update to this. Why did I buy a Lifetime Plex Pass a couple years ago to support this? This should be THE DEFINITIVE application for private libraries, but they crippled the plugin support, add in features that end users don’t really want, and give us zero ability to customize. What’s the deal, Plex team? When did this go from a passion project to a business of making money? This is nuts. I feel like I need to stick with Plex since I put all this money up front, like an investment, but I don’t like how neglected the app is when it comes to user customization.
That’s my rant. Anyway, yes, I’d love an auto-play with a configurable timer as well. Give us the ability to customize our experience like we desire. If you won’t, then, give us the ability to make the code changes ourselves.
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I can no longer sleep because Plex stops after 3 episodes. It never used to do that on my Roku until recently. How do I revert Plex back to being able to do that or is there a hidden setting I can change the 3 episode or 2 hour limit to another number?
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Double check the settings in Roku.
Why does the prompt appear after 4 hours? Research shows that four hours without remote activity is a good indicator that no one is watching the content being streamed since most movie and TV shows are less than 4 hours, including sports-related content.
That’s Roku’s own settings, separate form Plex.
Should have been this way for a long time. No sure why it changed for you. You can bypass this limit if you play a playlist or you set the video to loop (a loop setting of 1 is available).
This is why I only like using the Roku Plex Players…because you CAN continuous play via the OSD (on screen display where you pause, forward/rewind etc)
Any OTHER Plex player I’ve tried (Fire stick, android box, Vizio APP, you can NOT do this, EVEN WITH PLAYLISTS!! It’s interesting Plex on Fire stick has the loop 1 or loop all on their OSD as well, but it doesn’t work. But on the Roku, thank GOD that the loop all on the OSD works flawlessly for me.
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Does anyone know the plex server version that it changed as I have my server setup to auto update and I lost this feature to random auto play my playlist for as long as I like, it’s my server give me control, I mean I installed jellyfin as they are just getting it good and is a good alt to plex
I just found myself digging for a way to decrease the lag timer between episodes. Most other apps have the next episode queued up during the credits of the prior. Plex feels like it’s running behind in the feature set in this area.
Creating a playlist for every show I watch is unideal.
Love the new intro skips, though. Seems an odd incongruity to have a 15 second timer between episode, and then offer to skip the next intro. Is Plex trying to save me time, or not?
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This is why I will NEVER buy a Plex Pass. Because every few months it’s either breaking and needs reinstalling or it’s running great then I can’t connect and now this No Autoplay bullcrap. Why doesn’t Plex just let users do what they want? I don’t want a “pinned” sidebar, I never use it it’s one of the biggest inconveniences of the program. Trailers don’t work, I imported my own, it worked for a month, Plex updated and guess what? Trailers didn’t work. Then I reinstalled Plex…trailers worked for a month…then stopped again and the 1 Tech Admin they seem to have floating around these forums OtterKernel or whatever the heck his name is couldn’t even get them to work after telling me my Windows was bad LOL. I’ve never seen a program, especially a semi-paid program with so many bugs and lack of features. It’s one of those Monopolistic situations where They are the only ones who Sell something therefor it’s the “Best” and there’s zero innovation because they’ve cornered a market in the Video streaming application service and that’s not American at all that’s Communist. Bring auto-play back just because a few whiners on Plex had to ruin it for everyone that’s no reason to punish the 99.99% of users who were fine with it. The lack of Continuous Autoplay is Plex’s version of the Coronavirus where it only effects .01% of users and yet they force EVERYONE to suffer. I wanna know what country Plex is based in so I can push to bring Democracy there… maybe THEN we’ll have Continuous Autoplay.
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I very much agree with your statement. The admin of the plex server should be in control of how long a user is idle as well as how much time in between episodes. This should and can easily be a server setting, but as I stated before the plex dev do not care about a two year old feature request with 80 votes. They’ll only care what will make them money in the long term, which is a good business sense. The devs will only address when the forum is flooded with it being an issue and internet news site like verge or are technica have an article about it on their front page, such as the roku update.
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Is there an option for continuous play yet? I am using plex as an android app on a smart tv and cant even find how to turn on the repeat option for a playlist.
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This is a trash response. People are literally asking for an option to control these settings instead of having them controlled for us. You say make Playlist but why would I make a Playlist of something that’s already grouped up.
Example. If I want to play all 4 seasons of Rick and morty and I got to episode 1 and click play it should be able to automatically go to the next episode. I shouldnt have to make a playlist of something that’s already essentially in its own playlist. Also making playlist in plex is a terrible experience.
Plex used to work like this. It literally set it apart from the streaming services and making this change because “people were going to sleep and waking up with their shows watched” is not a valid answer.
Sure… This should be a reason to have it be a feature… But with any feature added to any program there should also be added an option to turn it off.
This has been an on going request for over 4 years across multiple threads. Forcing features on your users is a fantastic was to lose them. Making playlist isn’t the correct answer to this problem. The correct answer is giving users control of this setting instead of deciding for us.
If this isn’t going to happen then it looks like it’s time to get another program…
Rip plex.
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Plex already does this. This discussion is to continue to the next episode without stopping until it hits the last episode without any interaction from a user.
Plex’s current implementation is that playback only occurs while there is some interaction from the user at least once every 2 hours. This is to prevent a user accidentally playing 50 episodes.
If you really want to play all the episodes, then yes, you will be required to add some additional work to make it explicit that you want to play everything, by making a playlist. With some clients you can also make an ad-hoc playlist. Some clients have the option to loop videos. If you enable the option to loop (there is a loop once option), then playback will continue until it hits the very last episode.
Edit - I’m not saying that this can’t be changed. I’m just trying to explain why it is done the way it is now. If users want a change, that is the point of having these feature requests so it can be discussed.
I saw that someone mentioned using playlists or the loop function isn’t working. If that’s the case please start a thread with details since I’m unable to reproduce that problem. I can continuously play an entire show using these methods.
I’ve been using Ottos suggestion (either posted here or elsewhere) of creating and using a smart Playlist of unplayed episodes. Its rather tedious to mark a show unplayed and put it in a Playlist just to utilize the no wait function.
I have been looking for an answer to a problem that just started with Plex. My playlist shuts off after 4 hours. I loved the ability to make a playlist that will play all night without stopping. It has always played nonstop…until recently…now it shuts off. Not sure what happened/changed. I have looked at settings to be able to fix the “play non -stop” , but cannot find this feature. I thought the whole idea of a playlist was that it would play thru from beginning till end without viewer interaction. I loved this feature. It made Plex my go-to streaming app. None of the other streaming companies could touch it…Did Plex change this?
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No man it doesn’t work like this. For example… I clicked episode 1 of Rick and morty, hit play and went to sleep. Woke up 8 hours later to a screen saver and when I clicked back it was on a page showing me the previous episode and the next episode which was season 1 episode 7. Which if I add up all the time for the first 6 episodes I get just over 2 hours. Which is the crappy 2 hour time frame the developers added when they added the in between episode thing. The 2 features are one in the same. The only difference is the thread specifically for my issue also deals with this issue because they are related. But no one from the development or community team at plex has responded in over 4 years.
My point remains the same. Any feature that is added to plex should not be forced on its users because a couple people at the office this its the best feature idea ever. How conceded does the development team have to be to think that everyone in the world enjoys TV the same way.
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No, your response is trash. A feature was taken away and replaced with something the Plex Admin has no control over. I don’t want there to be an idle timer. [quote=“MovieFan.Plex, post:57, topic:332504”]
Plex’s current implementation is that playback only occurs while there is some interaction from the user at least once every 2 hours. This is to prevent a user accidentally playing 50 episodes.
[/quote] I want to be able to turn this feature off without having to hack Plex. On top of that you keep saying use playlist but this idle timer is still present even when you do.
Again we don’t want features forced upon us that we don’t have control over.
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I’m not aware of any Plex feature that would stop at 4 hours. What client is this? Have you checked if your TV (if it’s on a TV) has it’s own power feature. I have a TV that I use a Fire TV stick on. No matter how much I use the Fire TV, the TV will still want to turn off if I don’t press a button on the TV remote at least once every so often.
What you are describing is exactly how it’s intended. It might not be your intended use but that is the expected behavior.
So you want to miss seeing those other 36 episodes?
