We need this simple feature, please guys !!
Any status info from admin/support/dev’s Plex ?
Hi! It’s not uncommon for series episodes to build suspense. However, when you opne a season and see a preview of an upcoming scene, it can spoil the fun. It would be great if we could choose, ideally for each series, whether we want a preview of unseen episodes or just the season’s cover.
obviously not, that is curious that this is not yet been implemented… 1st request was like 10 years ago ! crazy
Wow please could we get something implemented here! Yet another spoiler for a race, nothing like having the podium as the icon image. :. Seems so easy to just add the ability to pick a “standard icon” OR just place a blank plex logo icon.
I’d even take a list of file names with no preview.
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Hello,
Long time member and user.
Great product.
I have one STRONG suggestion for a small change to your windows Player.. When navigating to a library, then to a particular season of shows or episodes, your program shows a grid of thumbnail images from each episode to select from.
The problem is, these thumbnail images from each episode OFTEN bring spoilers with them. They show a scene from that episode that give the user TOO much information about upcoming episodes. Often spoilers that ruing things. Like an actor that might have died in a previous episode and now shows up in the thumbnail of a future episode so it ruins the storyline.
PLEASE allow a setting so that users can turn off the images for the episode list. Maybe just show the program poster image and then the episode number under it instead of a scene from that episode.
Thank you.
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Almost 10 years old now! About 9 years ago “System” commented that “We listen to our users!”. That doesn’t appear to be true.
If I were Plex I’d been keen to erase this embarrassing mistake of a feature, not leave it hanging around for a decade, annoying every new user that joins.
BTW: in some places, like the “Recently Released Episodes” list, I don’t see the screenshot-thumbnails, but in other places I do, so it seems like some logic is already in the codebase to be able to just show a generic thumbnail, meaning that this can’t be rocket science to fix.
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Agree with everything I’ve read from other users with this issue, 10 years on and Plex staff still haven’t even addressed the issue by responding to any of the many posts on this. I regularly watch sports games from my home country, and I stay off social media so the results aren’t spoiled before I watch the games, only to have the final score or a late in the game score ruined by Plex. This can’t be too hard to address, it’s just a change in how the thumbs are generated and chosen. I always keep sports in a personal library instead of TV because it’s worse as a TV show, Plex does not do sports well IMO (Rugby, Ice Hockey, AFL are what I generally watch). At least in the personal media mode I can see the correct file names to get the game I want, but I have to be really careful to not look at the poster or background because right there in the corner near the play button, is a great big scoreboard with the full time or late-geme score. To call this frustrating is an understatement.
Regular TV series’ have an option to use local metadata/media, why can’t this be enabled for home video libraries.
I even tried the trick someone suggested to have a jpeg image in the same directory with the same file name as the video file, but that didn’t help. I’m not interested in configuring a 3rd party software to go through my library and fix this issue either.
I see a few people mentioned Emby has this capability to hide thumbnails in a collection, why doesn’t someone at Plex just copy what they did, it’s FOSS, isn’t it? Well, it was…
Anyway, just wanted to add myself to the growing list of disappointed and frustrated Plex users.
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Would be cool if you could optionally hide future seasons of a TV show. Once someone has watched Season 1, expose Season 2, etc.
Ideally being able to set on a per-show basis given some shows don’t need follow the season prior.
Mainly so that it isn’t super obvious that the protaganist obviously gets out of this particular jam because there are 7 more seasons.
Same could apply for Movies for the same reason.
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Solution, create a basic default folder for a large selection of sports files (not in individual folders per file), and use a default local Poster for the media.
So, lets say, make a new Sports Temp library in PLEX for new unwatched DVR sports.
Then create a MMA Temp, a Baseball Temp, and a Football Temp folder on your Server. And add them to the Sports Temp library in Plex.
Now, in each of the Temp Folders add a cover-1.jpg file of your choosing to work as a default for that media type.
Could be a picture with a bat and ball for baseball, a logo for your favorite NFL team, maybe a boxing glove that looks to be punching through the poster for MMA (whatever you want).
Then make sure that media type, Personal Media, is set to use local media first, if preset.
Now when you DVR sports, put those video in these folders, or just one catch-all Sports Temp Folder with a themed cover-1.jpg cover art file, and bam, no more thumbnails.
I don’t know how many times I’ve been watching a TV series where an episode/season ends on a cliff-hanger, where you think a character might have died or something else major, but I see the character alive and well in the thumbnail for an upcoming episode. Or maybe there is a surprise guest or unexpected event that a thumbnail reveals.
I think it would be great if there was an option to blur the thumbnails of episodes that are unwatched as a way to prevent such spoilers. I’m imagining this being a client/player-side option, so people who, for whatever reason, don’t like it can always just turn it off.
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Add me to the list of PLEXers who are super annoyed by the auto-spoiler generation “feature”.
Who thought this was a good idea to make this the default in the first place?
Please take the time to scroll all the way back up to the top to upvote this topic
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This is the most annoying thing ever. Lately any sports content, like F1 races, are being spoiled for me. Plex is always making the thumbnail right at the podium time, so it’s impossible not to see what’s going on. Even worse, I’m pre-populating folders with a premade poster.jpg and background.jpg which Plex ignores until I open the title options (and see the thumbnail in the process) and choose “refresh metadata.” It simply will not load the local assets unless forced. This is extremely annoying and has been ignored for YEARS.
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