Adding media, regardless of library type, to a playlist is not great. I have to go through and select each individual episode or movie or whatever. Doesn’t matter. Right now I’m just adding my entire library to a playlist and watching from there because of this continuous playback issue nonsense. Regardless of that problem, creating playlists should be much easier.
There should be a drag and drop, and a drag to select (with the mouse), and in the apps if you hold to highlight then the view should go into a mode where simply tapping on another media should highlight it as well (kind of like in the gmail app when selecting emails to delete in bulk).
That way we can have our continuous playback without all this bullshit about how or why it should exist in the first place.
That’s interesting, I can’t do that. Can you do it in an unsorted library? Like if you create a library and use the “other type” option?
Right now, if I go to my other type library in grid view and press shift then click, it just opens a new window. All browsers. If I do it in detailed or table view it doesn’t do anything. Just shows a circle with a line through it as I drag.
ooooooooooohhhhhhhhh… Oh that’s not great. Usability fail.
I go by the rule that if I need to google basic stuff like this (or heaven forbid wait for a response on a forum) then it’s a no from me, scrap it and start again type situation.
Using Shift is bad enough, but then having to select something first and THEN use shift? That’s two hurdles + one in-the-know.
You only need to press Shift to select a range of items. You can tap on items to add them to the selection individually (as described in your OP?).
The only difference to your OP I’ve noticed is that you ask for „some kind of drag and drop“ to initiate the multi-selection, while Plex wants you to hover one item and click the selection icon (circle in the top-left corner of the poster).
In the mobile apps you trigger it by long-pressing an item and clicking select more (lit. translation from my non-English iOS UI). That seems pretty much in line with your suggestion.
I think the approach is rather common in today’s file managers or other library apps (e.g. photos, mails…) — incl. the option to select a range while pressing Shift.
If this isn’t up to your expectations… would you mind elaborating what you have in mind? The existing approach seemed to be quite in line with the suggestion to me.
You’re right actually, most of the functionality exists but the way it’s implemented is clunky and confusing enough to obfuscate its existence therefore rendering it useless. That actually annoys me more than the if the functionality were to not exist in the first place haha…
Cool I’ve just found the “select multiple” option in the mobile interface, really that should just happen when long holding. Like on iOS/Android home screen when long holding apps to rearrange, or the upload menu on google drive app. The long hold menu options that currently exists should just move into the menu that pops up when single clicking the item. This minimizes interaction time because hold is now eliminated for normal operations and this way you can minimize double clicks by two whole clicks: when selecting “select multiple”, and concatenates going into and out of that menu from a hold operation to a single click.
Also, the select multiple on the web interface has another problem: it doesn’t select all on release, I have to click again after selecting multiple items. So let’s recap: have to press shift, which only works after having first selected an item, and selecting multiple items only works when I also click at the end? That’s just insane.
Click+drag (without having to first select an item) is all it should take to multi-select. Then selection should show on click release, not another click. Very simple.
