Define what should Play Next or show as Related, in metadata

Feature Suggestions
1

When editing an item’s metadata, allow us to specify any other item from any library on the server as the next item to be played.

And/or allow us to specify a list of related items in the metadata, which appear as options when viewing the main item.

This would be particularly useful in cases where:

  • A movie acts as the starting-off point for a TV-show that follows it
  • A TV show that concludes with a movie
  • A series of movies that work best when viewed in a particular order
  • A TV show that offers specials that ideally should be watched in-between certain episodes
2

As posted in your other suggestion… Plex will already place specials into your queue / continue watching section based on their air dates – this is particularly helpful with special episodes / linked movies that are organized as specials that link to certain regular episodes.

There’s an existing feature suggestion discussing an option to actually show those specials inline with the regular episodes on the respective season pages?

3

I think the suggested feature is a better ask as “Play Next” doesn’t need to be changed when the order is already correct.

And my series often have specials that only release on the Blu-ray; therefore, it would play the season, then play the specials out of watch-order.

4

Created a new discussion by mistake (didn’t find this one, used the wrong keywords so my bad). This is exactly what I need to ensure autoplay plays shows in the correct order. Allowing movies to play next too sounds like a great add if possible.

I’ve seen suggestions about adjusting air dates so the on deck displays it correctly. But this doesn’t help binge watching. Absolute order can help, but only if tvdb actually has it setup correctly. Often it’s not, resulting in many episodes losing metadata as a result.

Adding in metadata that explicitly states what to play next (to override the default air date logic), and selecting content from your library is a great way to mitigate this problem. As we cannot solely rely on air date alone to fix this.

5

Quick Summary:
The ability to manually (until there is some realible site that provides the data) add a custom tag to combine TV and Movies of the same show/movie and set a watch order.

we are seeing more and more TV to Moves and back to TV mostly in Anime but also in hollywood (Firefly/Serenity, Godzilla/Monarch/Star Wars/so many)

the data would be based on existing Plex Data (no folder path, just a single copy, as it would use the existing data)

Lets use Jujutsu Kaisen as an example (Watch order)

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 1 (episodes 1-24) (located In a TV libaray)
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Movie 1) (In a Movie libaray)
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 (episodes 25-47) (In a TV libaray)
Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death – The Movie (In a Movie libaray)
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 (episodes 48-59) (In a TV libaray)
Jujutsu Kaisen season 4, AKA Culling Game (In a TV libaray)

Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (Movie 03) (In a Movie libaray)

How to relate watch order of TV/Moves in a new Library/Watch Order

I’m not a delevoper but in my head each tv/movie can have a custom feild that has a unique number maybe based on the over all name

Simple Alphabet Mapping
Assign each letter a number based on its position:
A=1, B=2, C=3 … Z=26
Example with Jujutsu Kaisen

JUJUTSU KAISEN

J = 10
U = 21
J = 10
U = 21
T = 20
S = 19
U = 21

(space)

K = 11
A = 1
I = 9
S = 19
E = 5
N = 14

:backhand_index_pointing_right: Final sequence:
10-21-10-21-20-19-21 11-1-9-19-5-14

matching this number combines TV and Movies

Next feild would be

Seasons / Movie

10-21-10-21-20-19-21 11-1-9-19-5-14, S001

10-21-10-21-20-19-21 11-1-9-19-5-14, M001

to match the watch order last field would be the order

10-21-10-21-20-19-21 11-1-9-19-5-14, S001, 001

10-21-10-21-20-19-21 11-1-9-19-5-14, M001, 002

10-21-10-21-20-19-21 11-1-9-19-5-14, S002, 003

to make our life easier

add a menu item to the three dots on the title* Add to Wach Order (TV and Movies)

Verify the Name (editable)

creates the unique code and searches for matching Movies / TV Show

returns a list

JUJUTSU KAISEN S01

JUJUTSU KAISEN S02

JUJUTSU KAISEN S03

JUJUTSU KAISEN S04

JUJUTSU KAISEN S05

JUJUTSU KAISEN M01

JUJUTSU KAISEN M02

JUJUTSU KAISEN M03

you can then drag into the proper watch order and remove any false positives

saves an XML file for speed and add to the regular mainentance cycle to valadiate the moves/TV shows are still there, yellow mark if there is a issue.

If we rename a folder or show name is it possable to update the Watch Older automatically?

any new seasons will be added to the end of the watch order which can be edited later to be put in the proper order, new moves will have to manual added

the first creation of a watch order will create a new “Watch Order” (Like watchlist) and populate it

I’m sure there are better ways of doing this, but the concept is sound and would be a great feature.

Danny