Increase amount of continue watching on home screen?

[King_Cronecker]

Server Version#: 1.32.7.7621- 871adbd44
Player Version#: 1.82.2.4024-64f483f6
On the home screen of the Plex app on Windows (I’m not sure if I’m using the one from the Windows store or the web download) once I start a 5th show it kicks one of the others from the list. It appears I can only have 4 in the continue watching section. Is there a way to increase this?
Any help would be much appreciated.

[JimKarnage]

Both my server and player are Linux so YMMV (though I doubt it) but it’s in the library section of your server settings

hope this helps!

[King_Cronecker]

I did change the settings. It doesn’t seem to take effect.

[booney]

I don’t think it’s retrospective, it will only take effect from now on

[King_Cronecker]

I changed it ages ago. I haven’t altered the settings in weeks.

[anon5074910]

Without plex server logs its hard to say but my initial guess that it could be database corruption. Have a look in your logs for “malformed” database messages. If so then take a look https://support.plex.tv/articles/repair-a-corrupted-database and/or GitHub - ChuckPa/PlexDBRepair: Database repair utility for Plex Media Server databases to help repair it.

[OttoKerner]

Another possible influence could come from invalid/incorrect time and date setting on your server.
If you are running Plex on a device which doesn’t have a battery to keep its clock running, you will always have to set up and check an automatic time synchronisation service – which may not function if there is an internet outage.

[King_Cronecker]

Thanks for your help, everyone. I’ll try those methods out.

[amcdon]

I’ve doing some testing around this issue and it seems to be something introduced with a version of the Windows desktop player. I’m not sure if I have access to every single version of the app, but v1.71.1-3888 does not have the issue while v1.73.1-3905 and forward does.

Here I will outline what happens step-by-step:

Starting conditions and info:

• Plex Windows desktop player v1.87.2.87-87488d5a (current latest), also occurs in the browser, which makes sense here of course
• Exactly four items in my Continue Watching section

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start playing new item
2. Seek ahead a bit to ensure item will be put in Continue Watching section
3. Stop playback

Expected result:

• Item will be placed at the beginning of the Continue Watching section without removing any of the previously existing items in the section

Actual result:

• Item is placed at the beginning of the Continue Watching section and the fourth/far right previously existing item is removed from the section

Other observations:

• Closing and restarting the application shows all items correctly, including the item that was removed in previous steps
• Starting number of items in the Continue Watching section does not matter but will be maintained. For example, if you start with three items, no more than three will ever be able to be displayed

This issue does not occur on the following applications (everything I personally have access to):

• Android
• Roku
• Windows HTPC app

Here are the Windows player logs that captures this happening. Issue occurs at the end of file, around Feb 19 18:00
Plex.log (494.3 KB)

My server’s logs don’t show anything relevant to this.

I’m happy to provide anything else deemed useful. Thanks!