What I Have…
I can create a playlist of all the Episodes that I would like to to watch. It contains multiple different shows. That are sorted by Air Date
What I Want…
I would like to further filter that list so that it only shows the oldest unwatched episode of each show.
Effectively this creates a curated on-deck playlist that will step through each show that I am watching and play the oldest unwatched episode before moving on to the next show and playing the oldest unwatched episode of that (It was easy to create in MSPaint so it should be easy to do? :P).
I’m not real familiar with building out playlists, but you might try setting this up as a collection instead and then you can add that collection to your hub as it’s own row. I did that to replace the “recently released” movies row to have one that was “recently released unwatched” instead (among other custom rows).
I did something similar for myself for TV but don’t have it sorted oldest to newest - which now that you say it, that would make more sense but I was building it to replace the built in one similar to the movie one I built rather than ordered playback. I built it but actually haven’t been using it.
Edit2:
Okay… more fiddling and a function I forgot about was Smart Playlist which might be exactly what you want… build it the same way and then use that option instead of a collection maybe:
As you can see from your last image, you have multiple consecutive episodes of the same show. I only ever want a single episode of each show to play before playing something else.
If I’m understanding what you’re looking for, it seems like you are wanting aired order oldest to newest unwatched episodes but play only a single episode per show even if episodes of the same show aired before the next episode of another other show (or even same release time like Shogun and Beckham episodes do in your playlist). So your experience would essentially be to watch Shogun episode 1, then Beckham episode 1, then Hunt for Raoul Moat episode 1, then Shogun episode 2, then Beckham episode 2, then Hunt for Raoul Moat episode 2. Do I have that right?
I don’t really know how you’d get that sorted out with the options available.
Obviously the collection using release date, even with same dates, puts them in proper episode order so it’s in there somewhere otherwise episodes released on the same date wouldn’t be in the proper release order. I’m just not sure where - either it’s factoring the episode number as well or the release dates have more to them in the background.
Getting the type of ordering you’re looking for is probably in the data as flags that could be used somewhere but not available in the logic engine; mixing episodes and shows and having logic to handle moving between show order as well as episode order.
Interesting idea - and bit unique - so hopefully someone else has some other ideas as I don’t see how to do it myself.
