I would love to have the ability to bookmark certain scenes in movies and then be able to create playlists from these clips. It would be ideal to use this to show off your home theater system with bass-y clips, surround clips, etc. Other ideas could be for your favorite scenes from a trilogy of movies or your kids’ desire to see the beauty and the beast dance scene. I think there are a lot of great possibilities from this functionality.
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I can’t see your suggestion getting a look in.
In your case just how many time are you going to “show off” your setup?
And if the kids like certain song scenes, I am pretty sure they are on youtube! 
Bump. I think this is a brilliant idea. (Because I just thought of it too, googled it, and this feature request was the top hit!) Another great use case: I’ve got a DVD box set of an entire sketch comedy series on my Plex server, but I want to be able to easily queue up specific sketches, without losing the ability to watch continuous episodes.
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Reposting my response from another thread:
Seriously? Plex sells itself as a major player in the field of media streaming, yet it doesn’t have an option to bookmark a place where you left off in, say, movies or audiobooks? Did no one really think of this while developing this software? Why I paid for this service is becoming more and more questionable.
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Technically Plex does do that, save where you left off I mean, but only that. Stop a movie halfway through? Plex will remember that for the life of the database (or until you clear it by marking it watched/unwatched), and you can resume from that spot any time. These requests are for more than the one “bookmark” you get when watching a piece of media.
I understand, but that doesn’t really help. If I’m watching a series with numerous episodes per year, and don’t go back to it for several days, chances are I’m not going to remember which episode I was on. Same thing with an audiobook: some of them have dozens and dozens of tracks per CD. No way in hell I’ll remember which track I was on 30 seconds, let alone days, later. These issues have been around long enough and are important enough judging by the number of hits in a search that this should have been addressed long ago. The other major fubar in Plex is the merging of multiple files into a single piece of media. You can’t possibly suppose this was a good idea. I know that many people want simplicity, but this can’t be the case with the majority of Plex users, who I imagine are, again judging by the forums, proficient at organizing their files to their own preferred naming systems. It makes me want to look elsewhere.
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You don’t have to. Plex also maintains watched status for every piece of media. In the case of TV, the next episode, or the current one if only partially watched, will be displayed in the “On Deck” hub of the main page of the apps. And if you don’t want that, or wait longer than the server defined number of weeks to keep track of “On Deck”, you can always navigate to the TV series entry and go to the first “unwatched” episode and resume from there, the server keeps track of all of that.
That’s more of an issue. Plex does not officially support audiobooks in any way. There are ways of hacking it together to work, but even then it’s a subpar experience honestly. And by subpar, I mean practically unusable by my standards personally. The 90% “done” flagging alone is a deal breaker for audiobooks. (plex marks files as “watched” when you reach 90% of the file, so as to account for stopping during the credits of a movie/tv show).
I honestly have no idea what you mean here? Plex doesn’t merge anything. A single TV show will have individual, and separate, seasons. A season will have individual, and separate, episodes.
I see. You make a good point about On Deck. I would still rather be able to have my own bookmarks, though. I may want to go back to a certain spot for any number of reasons.
That’s too bad about the audiobooks. I mean, even iPods of, what, 15 years ago? keep the place exactly where you left off, though they had no bookmarks either.
For merging files, see the attached screen shot. This folder on my PC contains 6 episodes of this documentary, labled Alexander’s Lost World, Part 1 (2013), Part 2, and so on. Plex merged them and sees them as a single file. I Googled this problem and it seems to be common, with no fixes.
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Ah, multipart merging. I also see where your reticence about naming and organization topics is coming from.
But yeah, that’s a naming/organization issue ducks… sorry. I will say though, the PartX merging used to make sense, it was the vast majority of content available for decades prior to HD becoming a thing. Even in the DVD era, tons of ‘releases’ were multipart (IE: movie.cd1.avi). It’s just there for legacy reasons at this point really.
As a “TV Show” (all the databases that include the show categorize it as such), plex expects a S01E0x in those file names.
All of that infuriating “rename ur fielz” drivel that you surely expected aside. Yes, you should also be able to manually split TV episodes like you can movies. It’s a pretty glaring oversight that it doesn’t let you do that. While I do understand the whole file naming argument, having worked on software that has to read meta-structures from other structures before. So I get it not being correct the first time, it wasn’t named how it expects, but not having a way to override and/or fix it later is pretty bad.
I’d love this. In fact, I’d love to see it taken up a notch. I want to be able to capture a URL that will cause the player to open a specific media file at a specific place.
I want that to share things within my family, but I’m sure that there are other use cases out there.
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Bump for deep links like YouTube’s had for years: YouTube.com/watch?v=video&t=2m45s
That’s not a real URL but I think that captures what people want here.
Also some way to make playlists that include bookmarks /deep links. Use cases: kids only like certain scenes of a movie…supercuts (without manually editing, @trumpy81)
Bump for video bookmarks!
Another bump here!
Would love to see these features.
Bump! Would be great to have searchable bookmarks! I watch a lot of tutorials and it would be fantastic to be able to bookmark some fragments where the instructor starts to talk about something I want to easily locate and return to when needed.
Hey all,
This would be a huge feature add. Sure, parents who want to queue up a scene for their kids, yes, but how about when you’re watching a concert and you want to skip to a specific part in the 3 hour concert? How about when you want to show off your surround sound system, and you want to queue up the depth charge scene in U575 (known as a great demo for your surround system)? The ability to create bookmarks throughout a video and label them is huge - in my opinion the value of this request is not the issue, it’s clear - instead, it’s about the level of effort required to enable this.
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