So, announced today, we released a new community feature - Lists. (You can read the full announcement post here.)
Figured I’d start a thread here, start seeing how y’all might use it, what you think about it, any questions you have, or just random comments about it! While we’ve played with the feature extensively internally, having YOUR eyes on it, the community here, is a vastly different experience and I personally look forward to reading what you might.
Imagine if you’d put this development effort into adding Watch Together to the new UI apps. Then you’d be adding a feature people are actually asking for. And it still would be relevant to your desires to promote your VOD/Rental content, since Watch Together was available for Plex’s FAST service, too.
How/where are they exposed in the web app? I created a simple list and dropped a movie into it. I can see the list on my watch.plex.tv page, but from there it takes me to a page where I can pay to watch a movie that I already have in my library?!
Yep, pretty useless feature for me. I did go to my library and went to a movie and there’s no option to add it to a List. Another waste of Plex resources…
Per the comparison chart, content on Lists is supposed to be “playable through available services”, and personal servers are considered a “Service”. It’s the same notation as Watchlist, which does include the servers a user has access to.
It does seem to work properly on IOS - I can see my list, then click on a movie, then “Where to Watch” and it gives me my server as an option. Just a lot of hoops to go through.
Okay so sounds like it is a bug then, or some implementation issue with the web client.
I don’t hate the idea of this feature as it seems to be less restricted than Playlists and Collections, but it also feels kinda redundant with those and I don’t want to hear six months from now “We’re getting rid of Collections because Lists do the same thing!”
One useful avenue for Lists would be making it easier to share individual items with another user. I once tried sharing a single TV series with another profile without giving that profile access to the entire library it was in, and it seemed to be really difficult to make the content findable by the receiving user since it didn’t “live” anywhere in their existing access. Being able to share a List and just have items open back to the correct personal library would solve that.
This is also why I never use the watchlist function. I only add items in my own library yet it takes me a couple of extra clicks every time to select my own media.
I would love to have an option to bypass “where to watch” if it exists in my own library.
It’ll be a surprise to no one that this is not a feature I’d be at all interested in. Thankfully, its behind discover which is great meaning I can ignore it.
One observation: After reading the List Creation and Management section I was surprised to not see deletion called out. Yes, there is remove items from list etc… but no actual deletion
I don’t get the difference in meaning here. Lists are populated by Discover entries so there’s nothing to “delete”. You can add items that are not available anywhere to watch.
That’s probably my ignorance then of never using the feature. There is a Create New Lists: Easily start a new list from scratch. and I would have assumed there would be a workflow to delete it ?
Yep - I’d love that option as well. Then I could have the best of both worlds. Make my library the default service (if I have the movie already)…if I don’t have it, offer it up on other services.
Ah, okay. You meant deleting the entire list. That’s what I was missing. I haven’t tried the feature either, as I’m still on an older server version at this time.
I don’t think server version matters as it’s tied to account level. Just have to use watch.plex.tv to create your lists (or one of the client apps mentioned).
Okay, if I go to watch.plex.tv and look up a title there I can see the “Add to List” option under the More (three dots) menu. I was looking on the Plex VOD titles from the hosted Plex app and there isn’t an option there. Also there’s no option on the Discover page (where it lists the options on where to watch a title).
Unless there’s something I’m missing (literally) this is even dumber now. The only time I visit watch.plex.tv is when I’m having an issue with metadata matching on my server.
