My hands are tired of making a new nightly playlist everyday (disabled hands) with the exact same tv shows; just the next unplayed episodes:
(See example below):
Playlist created on: Monday
Playlist Name: Night Shows
Playlist Files: Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 3
Numb3rs Season 2 Episode 6
C.S.I. Miami Season 4 Episode 1
Allow us to press play on the playlist the next day (Tuesday) to play:
Playlist continued on Tuesday
Playlist Name: Night Shows
Playlist Files: Big Bang Theory Season 2 Episode 4
Numb3rs Season 2 Episode 7
C.S.I. Miami Season 4 Episode 2
Are you saying you want to create a playlist of of something like three TV shows, and it automatically plays the first episode of each, before wrapping back around and incriminating the episode number next time you watch it?
Not the same kind of list, but yes that is similar. If I had it that way where the list is created for me via a smart list I would not be able to watch it in an entire day. I have a TV library that consists of over 80 different TV shows. I could never watch 80 different TV shows in a night. I would prefer that I personally create each list not have it created for me as I would like to create multiple different lists like this.
I think this mostly overlaps what the OnDeck feature already does.
I’m speculating here, but it doesn’t seem like it would provide enough of a difference to make the effort worthy of development time. You might get lucky, but I would be surprised.
The main difference from OnDeck would be automatically advancing to the next episode, I guess. Where as OnDeck tries to play the next in the series or another random OnDesk episode different from whatever arbitrary order you might choose in a play list. Still pretty easy to just select the next episode you want though.
I have a pretty similar question to this, and am going to give a specific example so hopefully I might get steered in the right direction.
Essentially, I setup a playlist for all the DC comics TV shows. Its a handful of different series, Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, ect, that tend to have crossover with each other so I’m not looking to watch all of one of them and then the next, I’m trying to watch them in the order they aired.
I did the legwork and built a playlist that has them all in the correct order. Except, when I finish a sitting and them come back to it later the on deck option tells me the next episode of whatever the specific series was, and if I hit play on the playlist instead of picking up where I left off, it starts at the very beginning again.
I can generally figure out what episode I was on by looking at the on deck and going back a few til I find the previous of the season and checking if the summary lines up with what I remember, but even without this particularly complicated case, it seems like it would make sense to have the ability to have a playlist pick up where you left off, be it for an audio book, or just throwing together a bunch of movies you want to watch in an order and be able to come back to finish up wherever you left off. If you are expecting to get through a playlist in just one sitting, wouldn’t you use a queue instead?
If someone has a better method for this, I’d love to hear it, please let me know.
Awesome. That is an interesting way to do it and looks like it would have saved me the original work of building the playlist. Thanks for the answer!
