Basically what the title says.
If this gets added I’m ready to abandon iTunes for movie files, because Apple doesn’t give a flying crap about Home Shares, keeping the codec repertoire up to snuff or proper media management anymore.
Play counts are a deal breaker for me, because I like having a quick glance at how often I watched something, but also because I frequently watch shows I’ve already watched and I’d like to see right away which episodes I already watched in my latest run.
This feature request is for any platform, if it’s a toggled option I’d be fine with that as well, because I understand some people like having less on the screen.
While Plex doesn’t show you a playcount, it handles the tracking of which episodes have been watched pretty well.
If you have watched a tv show in Plex before and you want to watch it again, just set the whole series to ‘Unwatched’.
Once you finished episode 1, it will be marked as ‘watched’ automatically. And episode 2 will be waiting in OnDeck for you.
[…] and you want to watch it again, just set the whole series to ‘Unwatched’.
While I do understand that this is a feasible workaround for some, I for one like to keep track of the amount of times I’ve played/listened to something, so unfortunately keeping play counts forever at mere 0 or 1 isn’t viable for me.
(and quite frankly I don’t think anyone should have to do that)
Thank you for the input, however I’m looking for a client solution, not something where I have to get up, walk up and check a third-party program (for one single use) for something that could technically be easily done on a client.
How do I check the play count this way if I was out and about and streaming to my iPad in another city for example?
And I’m not going to start a web server just to get view counts.
I do agree it is A workaround for specific situations, but I don’t fancy relying on a third-party program just to check play counts.
Now if I was into very specific maintenance tasks a third-party app would likely be feasible, but I’m talking about “at a glance” information here. Hmm
@glassedsilver said:
Thank you for the input, however I’m looking for a client solution, not something where I have to get up, walk up and check a third-party program (for one single use) for something that could technically be easily done on a client.
Do you have a smartphone, if so check plexpy from there. But I agree it does not specifically match your Feature Request
If it was easily done at the client I’m pretty sure it would be done already
How do I check the play count this way if I was out and about and streaming to my iPad in another city for example?
The same way you access plex remotely, by opening a port in your router.
And I’m not going to start a web server just to get view counts.
You don’t have to start a webserver, in the same way you didn’t have to start a webserver to view the plex/web interface from a browser.
@glassedsilver said:
Thank you for the input, however I’m looking for a client solution, not something where I have to get up, walk up and check a third-party program (for one single use) for something that could technically be easily done on a client.
Do you have a smartphone, if so check plexpy from there. But I agree it does not specifically match your Feature Request
If it was easily done at the client I’m pretty sure it would be done already
How do I check the play count this way if I was out and about and streaming to my iPad in another city for example?
The same way you access plex remotely, by opening a port in your router.
And I’m not going to start a web server just to get view counts.
You don’t have to start a webserver, in the same way you didn’t have to start a webserver to view the plex/web interface from a browser.
Fair enough, but isn’t Plex about convenience?
I just don’t find the concept of having to go into another app to check play counts very graceful at all.
And the values are already stored in the db.
If I assume correctly it’s really just relaying that bit of information to the client and then finding about 50px in a list view and 100px on the particular episode/movie sheet to state the count.
Also, easy or not, that’s my wish for Plex, until I have a quick at-a-glance and integrated view for play counts I’m sticking to iTunes.
Really? Wow, that’s a real shame.
Well, the code obviously already exists though, because Plex will count plays for music.
So I guess the technical hurdle is long taken.
And there have been suggestions/hints that the certain/some of the functionality of PlexPy will incorporated into Plex but no timeline for it has been given
@hthighway said:
And there have been suggestions/hints that the certain/some of the functionality of PlexPy will incorporated into Plex but no timeline for it has been given
That sounds amazing!
Do you have a link for me perhaps?
No, they aren’t. That why plexpy exists
Actually the play count is stored in the DB. You can also access this by looking at the xml for a file. Look for the tag “viewCount”.
