Download Folder TV Shows // group episodes as shows/seasons in downloads section

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I have two suggestions to make the Downloads more usable:

  1. Please show dowloaded episodes of a TV show in their own respective folder. As it is now, there is no folder structure to the downloads section.
  2. Allow us to download entire TV Seasons at once. As opposed to having to download each episode individually.
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What do you mean by #1?
Do you want downloaded episodes to be grouped by shows/seasons?

Plex have already mentioned that #2 is being added soon in the related announcement.

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Good news on #2, I had not seen that.

On #1, yes, to have shows grouped into the Show/seasons. Right now, I have downloaded 6 movies and abnout 20 episodes from two differnt shows. When I go to the new “Downloads” section of the app, it just shows the 6 movies and 20 episodes all jumbled together. Unorganized. Would be nice if the TV shows were grouped into their Show name, then you could click on that “folder” to see the episodes within.

Basically the downloads section should “mimic” the TV Shows tab
 clean and organized by show

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I think I’ve found a workaround for #1, but I’ve done minimal testing so proceed with caution.

If you download the entire season, it groups the episodes. I need to download episodes individually due to my server’s bandwidth. After downloading all episodes individually, download the season and it appears clever enough to use the already downloaded individual episodes. It leaves the individual episodes in the downloads folder, but you can delete those without affecting the downloaded season folder.

Edit: Sorry, just realised this was for phones. I’m using the Windows app.

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On the app can we have a specialised download TAB where organize the downloads to each season per episode instead of having all the episodes listed

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In the updated iPad and iPhone app for Plex, you can only sort all the episodes. You no longer have any series/season grouping as in the usual library views.

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+1 to request this be fixed. Hopefully restoring the group/sort by series for episodes will come with the ‘download entire season’ update, but if not then it should be prioritized!

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This would be amazing. Or, ideally, even just the ability to browse a library when in offline mode and watch shows which are downloaded. Finding the things I want is exhausting.

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This was in the old app so caan we have this back please ( see episodes grouped un shows/seasons in downloads )

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Completely agree, while a lot has improved the downloads section has become very hard to manage now. It should ideally have a similar interface with artwork and info to the main plex servers.

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Basics missing for me that was extremely useful from the old version

  1. Grouping by show and season (not an enormous list like now)

  2. Syncing based on criteria (like “ last X unwatched”)

  3. Auto Cleaning up of shows that have been watched

The actual downloading of the files is more consistent for me, but it is missing really useful features from the old version which was really important to me. Makes it a bit meh because of it

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100%, I primarily use these download features and having to self manage them is an absolute pain. Having to manually swipe away all watched episodes individually to regain storage and manually download individual episodes is not what I signed up for when I bought Lifetime PlexPass.

The ability to set and forget ‘Download next 5 unwatched episodes and delete watched on next refresh’ was what I wanted to pay the money for, and I feel screwed over that this was scrapped as soon as I purchased it.

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yeah, 100%.. only reason i paid

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Putting things in folders/grouping episodes together should’ve been a day one fix. I can’t use this trash and every update I see if it’s been fixed. And still nothing. I had to use sideloader to load an older version of the app. They rushed this app out. I wouldn’t even call it a beta. Clearly nobody at plex uses plex.

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+1 vote from me for these features. Everything about the downloads section is currently extremely frustrating and not what I paid for.

I have another request also that is equally important for me:

Rather than hiding the “Downloads” folder in a sub menu of the iOS app, Why can’t we add access to it from our “Favourite Libraries” menu?

Or in the “Home tab”, We should be able to scroll across/down to it without having to navigate to it in a boring/bland sub menu along with the settings etc.

The fact that they have buried the downloads menu in amongst the Settings, Services, Profile tabs says that it is not part of the main experience straight away. I find this very telling as to what their priorities are and it does not seem to be personal media libraries as it once was unfortunately.