Inconsistent behavior when playing TV shows

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Hi,

Let me start by saying that I am relatively new to Plex, but I’m loving it overall.

I have an issue that is more of an inconvenience than anything else and was hoping someone could help me out. I have 60+ TV shows in my library, all of them named using the guidelines as outlined here on this site: (TV/Show Name/Season Num/Show Name - sXXeYY). When I go in to the TV show’s “page”, I sometimes see simply a play button, while other times I see the option to play sXXeYY (where that is the next unwatched episode of the show). Why is this inconsistent and how would I go about fixing it?

I’m running version 1.1.4.2757 on my Drobo NAS, if you need that.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.

Tom

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Plex keeps track of which episode you played already in a show.
If you have test-played already an episode of a particular show, then Plex offers to continue watching with the next episode automatically.
Especially if you played not the first episode of a show as a test, this can be confusing for the uninitiated.

There is also a difference whether you are at the preplay page of

  • the whole show
  • a season of the show
  • a single episode of a show
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Two points of clarification:

This is at the preplay page of the whole show.
The place I’ve noticed this is on the AppleTV app (4th gen).

I do believe you have something there with the whole marked as watched thing though. I will play with this tonight when I get home.

Thanks,
Tom

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@xyxrt256 said:
The place I’ve noticed this is on the AppleTV app (4th gen).

I don’t have such a device myself, but the behaviour should be consistent across different Plex Clients.

I do believe you have something there with the whole marked as watched thing though.

Yes, if you toggle this twice, you can reset a show to an ‘untouched’ state.