What do you mean.. “do I want to miss those episodes?” lol.
Are you somehow implying that if my plex plays them while I’m not wat mching it that I now have no way to watch them again? I hate to break it to you but that’s not how plex works. I can turn around and watch any episode over again. Just because it doesn’t have an “unwantched” tag on it doesn’t mean I can’t watch it again.
And this is not how plex used to work. I understand that it’s currently intended. But as of a couple of months ago my plex TV app would in fact play every episode in the entire series when I clicked play on the first episode. If I played episode 1 of a 20 season show it would keep going for days without stopping. This was perfect.
It’s not doing that anymore. Because someone at plex decided that this was a better way to watch shows. Not realizing that their opinion just might not be the same opinion of everyone who uses plex.
You are giving off a perfect example of this wrong mentality by trying to be sarcastic and ask me if I “want to miss those episodes”. I’ve already seen them all. I just want TV to play the entire time I sleep. Plex has accomplished this for years. Until recently. Other people have been complaining about it for years so it seems it just depends on what version you were on. My TV app recently got upgraded and now I’m dealing with this disaster also.
The point is.. Plex has the ability to play local media. Streaming sites like Netflix have a reason to force this kind of limit because they pay for internet and a bunch of people running shows while they are sleeping puts extra strain on their network. I get it. That’s makes sense. But here I am in charge of my own network.. My own plex client.. And my own media.. And im being told by developers that I can only watch 2 hours of TV before it shuts itself off unless I touch it. This is rediculous. Or I’m being told how long I have to wait in between episodes.
So no.. I literally don’t care if I miss those episodes. Since we have established that can you push that up the ladder that this simply needs to be a toggle option. That’s it. For those who are super scared of missing episodes while they sleep they can turn it on. For those of us that want to let it run until it runs out if episodes.. We can turn it off.
This is a decision that should be in the hands of the users.. Not the development team. Forcing this feature is like plex telling us we can’t watch TV from 10pm to 8am becase we should be sleeping. It’s stupid to take the control out of the user’s hands.. Users having this kind of control is the only reason people use plex and the only reason it got so popular. It needs to be fixed or I’m finding a new app. Period.
I’m in the same boat. It’s one thing to have that option in place to ‘restrict’ a remote access playback, but it’s another thing to impose the same restriction on a local intranet.
Kind of sad that Plex devs have been ignoring their users on this issue since at least 2016 [in this post] and apparently are steadfast in their mindset (instead of what the users want).
Yeah I installed it last night and ran it. It definitely does what I’m wanting. It even has pre pop-ups around the credits to give me the option to skip to the next episode which is sick.
It’s not as far along as plex and there is room for improvement in the navigation but there are way more options on the client side than in plex. I’m going to straighten out my library tonivht and see if I can get the same out of network user experience as plex then if I can I’m making the switch.
I am loathe to flippantly use the word “fascist,” so how about “draconian” when describing this shift in Plex’s development approach.
Remember: Hobson’s choice really means having no choice.
(Lord, adding some dumb checkboxes is a bridge too far now? Because: “reasons”?)
@elan, thank you for taking the time to reply to this forum discussion. I am as well as the rest of thread participants are looking forward to see what comes from your intervention.
OK, so we chatted it over, and we’ll be looking to make a few small changes which hopefully will provide at least some of what you’re looking for here. No promises on specifics or timeframe, but roughly: (1) client preference around “pass-out protection” and (2) doing something akin to what the Roku does where enabling a repeat/shuffle mode results in continuous autoplay.
Again: super rough, but I figured you deserved a few details on what we’re thinking after a few years of this thread…
Client control over the timer between episodes would be super awesome! I really can’t think of any time in the universe that I’ve ever wanted to wait for the next one to start beyond buffering.
Is there a reason that we have it, where no other streaming service seems to?
I don’t think the timer really matters much, because even 30 seconds or so (you’d know better than I would) into the next episode, you can pop the back button without it registering as having started playing.
Ideally for me, I’d like to hit the next episode in queue from the home screen and let them roll without interruption until I decide I’m done. I’m interrupting the 15 second cooldown timer more often than not. It’s such a kneejerk reaction that I often do it even when I really don’t want to watch the next episode. lol
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like you’re saying this is a client solution/change. Would it not be infinitely simpler to disable these options In the client and make them server-side settings?
I’m confused why you’d do that much work on all those clients when, in general, people either want things to auto play indefinitely or not.
For me, I always want it to play nonstop. I feel like this fix is going to force me to click a button every time I hit play. I’m glad the option is being looked at, it’s just confusing to me why this is the direction Plex would choose to take.
this doesn’t address the issue. It should be a server side setting, not a client setting. We want to be able to disable this “pass out protection” for all clients local as well as remote.
I have no issues with servers having different settings because it’s the admin’s choice as to how their server functions. in addition this is currently the case because the admin has control over quality of video stream, so if I want all my remote clients to play at 720p they play at 720p, yet my friend’s server lets remote clients plays at 1080p. my server, my content, my rules, otherwise no soup for you.
I think we have a good example in conversation above. Elan prefers the timer between episodes. I do not. There’s a case for it being an individual preference.
