I know the reason the they are displayed that way, and, as I stated before, it may be useful to those that add a lot of new content.
Not so much for me, because I see the same repeated show poster. Besides that, if I am going to select a show from the “Recently Added” hub, i’m probably going to scroll to the first item without the “un-watched” indicator in the corner for the series. If they were combined into at least a season, I would click there, be taken to the season, and see that I have “X” amount of unwatched episodes, as well as be able to identify any missing episodes.
I’m not disagreeing with you, or the Plex logic, just saying that in my user case, it’s dysfunctional, and an option to combine would be beneficial.
However, that is something completely different than the “Recently Added” on either the Plex home page or the the TV Library’s default page of “Recommended” It also requires you to display using a a filter, and I don’t think I have personally used a filter ever, and doubt that the people I share with (particularly my grandkids) would know how to do that.
I would imagine there’s probably a way to generate a “Smart Playlist” with custom filters, too. Again, not the same thing.
On the left side where you have the Animated, Star Trek, Stargate, Stargate Atlantis etc. Those are libraries, not folders. what @ottokerner was mention is that you are creating separate libraries for each show. instead of having one library with all your shows in it.
of course you may want it like that but even if you do part fo the reason it is exacerbating what leeynds is talking about is that I am guessing when creating each of those libraries you added the individual show folders not the main TV folder
I have a library called “Shows” you can see on the left with all my shows. When creating need to add the main show folder not each individual show. like the image below. When Plex scans that folder all of its child folders which are each individual show folder will be seen. You don’t need to add them each individually in the interface.
if you add each individual show folder like this below with Breaking Bad, the next folder it sees is the season folders. which can confuse Plex and it will treat each season like separate shows.
You can of course have separate libraries for each show if you want, but I do still suggest having a parent folder for each library that is not the show folder else weird things happen.
@leelynds it does seem to not be combining items at times for some reason in the Recently Added Hub. I just made a test library with sample shows with two seasons each and for one it combined the episodes/seasons into one poster and the other it did not. I will try to reproduce multiple times to see why sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t and make a bug report for that. I’m not aware of any intended change in the behavior of always combining if episodes/seasons of the same show added within 20hours so it does seem like a bug.
I actually think it can depend on the time of day you add, as well as the amount of time between adding episodes. I assumed it was a 24 hour period, until I found the glitch you mentioned, where it sometimes doesn’t combine episodes. Maybe whatever time you re-started the server or some other criteria is used in the logic.
In any event, I don’t know if I would call it a bug. The repeated posters are not particularly useful for my user case, and an option to combine would make “Recently Added” more functional.
@TeknoJunky yeah that’s true. i blame my lack of sleep for not thinking of that
@leelynds the feature is definitely 20hrs not 24hrs. If I recall it was due to not wanting daily episodes like nightly news recordings to be combined. i don’t personally save/record any daily shows so did not think too much about it. I’m not making any promises but I will bring it up to ask if it can be 25 hrs or possibly configurable.
Now about the poster that is displayed… why the “Show” poster for any single episode from any season, but the “Season” poster if you add multiple episodes from the same season. Wouldn’t the season poster make sense in almost every case, even if the current method is “un-changeable”?
Ok so is this is how it’s supposed to work,
In Plex I can only create one folder list called TV Shows and then every TV show I have goes into that folder list.
So inside that folder will be action shows, documentaries, drama, kids cartoons and any other TV Show I add will still go into that one Folder.
If the Kids had a Plex User Account, and were added to your Plexiverse as ‘Guests/Friends’, you could share only the content in two new Libraries, one for TV Shows and one for Movies - the Kids sign in - no funny stuff. They get their stuff and that’s it.
As for ‘Genre’, depending on size of same, you could create Genre Collections within your main TV Show or Movie Library - and if you call those Collections the same thing across Libraries, they’ll all show up in one big Collection Party when you open one up:
Like: “Westerns” - The Collection, for instance, when opened contains Westerns in TV Shows and Movies.
It’s still being tested, and has been called by one employee, ‘Collection Abuse’, but it does work for the intended purpose…lol
The idea being, you don’t need Genre Libraries, and you don’t really want them because the Actor Search doesn’t work across multiple libraries or library types. The fewer the better, if you want to use Plex as designed.
