[Feature request] - Xbox One app menu

Plex Players Gaming Consoles
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Can we get the Xbox One app to look and feel more similar to the Android TV app? I love that interface, but unfortunately the Nexus Player seems to have reached the end of it’s life (at least in my case).

The Xbox One app is a little too simple, and I really like how the web app and the android app. Probably should be trying to make it more like the Netflix app… just an idea.

##Things I’d like to see:

  • On Deck section with the horizontal scrolling tiles (like web app)
  • Recently added TV and Movies sections with horizontal scrolling tiles
  • Autoplay for TV Series
  • TV Series and Movie Recommendations sections from the home page (This might be less useful for users without extensive collections like some of us have…)
  • TV Series and Movie Recommendations sections from viewing other content (ie. when viewing a movie, it would recommend other movies based on genre, actor, director, unlatched, etc. (pretty sure this feature used to be on the Android TV… can’t recall.)
  • Plex Queue - The ability to queue up content, movies and TV, that you know you are going to watch.
  • Android/iOS/Webapp Remote control - The ability to remote control Plex Media players from the apps, including queuing content, browsing content and playing content. Other standard remote features such as; pause, variable speed fast forward, variable speed rewind, stop, play, timeline scrubbing (drag to fastfoward or rewind), and volume adjustments (utilizing IR blaster if available on device).
  • Channel - Not a feature I used a ton, but I am sure others would like to be able to play content off of the official channels you offer.
  • Here’s a crazy idea… I have TV content sorted by day of the week it airs. Maybe allowing us to enable the ability to have horizontally scrolling “recently added” sections per library we setup. This would also leverage Movies having it’s own section… and if the server owner wanted to get really tricky they could even have their movie content split by genre… or build some tagging in the meta data that would recognize airing date for shows and reference the already stored genre tag for movies and build those sections that way… meaning less work for me!!!
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I am smellin’ what you are sellin’! Problem is at one point I feel that most of those features were there, I keep thinking that it was all a dream and somewhere along the line I got sucked back into reality and my version of common sense did not jive with the real world.

Your idea of splitting TV shows into day of airing could get complex as CBS ABC NBC and FOX all change the days at which things come on. Further be aware that no one really watches anything when it is on TV purposefully anymore. For example I watch Flash dutifully weekly; I can not tell you what day it airs.

I know this is not the case for everyone but it is a growing majority

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Yeah, I hear ya. I watch probably a more limited set of shows than many, including some family members.

My library of shows ends up being too many for me to want to sift through all in one library. That is why I split it by day/ Recently added does help me keep on top of what shows I might have missed, but still would be nice for my use case to see what was added only on Tuesday or Sunday for example. Those days end up being bigger nights for shows, for many alike, and I might have missed one of them. Shows take a week off often enough that I don’t always know when I am missing something or when I am not.

Just a side note, my library has some automation to explain how I could “miss” something. My family has a wide set of content they like, and I do not watch it all, but God help me if I don’t get show “a” or show “b” available that night.