I have really been wishing (and searching Google) for a way to combine every episode of a tv show, to only show once on the recently added in my home page.
I have several shows that I add once or twice each week (yes, one of them has 2 episodes per week), and the result is that any other show that I add to the library is almost instantly buried under a mountain of repeats. Instead of a nice variety of shows appearing, I see the same poster, over and over, foe each individual episode that I add.
At times this has gotten so annoying, that I’ve held back on adding episodes of shows until the season is over, so my layout in Plex will look cleaner, without all the duplicates, just one tile for each season (or more if I add them all at once, which is even better to me). This has actually even kept me from watching some shows bc they’re not in Plex yet.
I would really love if all shows added grabbed the tile from the previous episodes of that show, only showing the poster for the most recent season in the library. I assume that if the default action when hitting play was set to play that season, rather than that episode, then it would automatically start you on the earliest episode that you haven’t played, so there’d be no need to see each episode’s tile to keep from skipping one. If you know you’re not on season “x”, then you wouldn’t press play on that poster, but click anywhere else, to the show folder, and navigate from there. If I could design it, it would show the season and episode/title under the poster, as a single added ep does now (so you can quickly see what the latest episode available is), but, as stated, the action on play would play that season. If that was a pain for programmers, I’d take either just the season tile as it is now, or just the episode tile as it is now, and navigate as needed.
The only reason I can imagine to show each episode’s tile would be to keep someone from skipping one by pressing play on the current ep, as solved above, while the clutter from the multiple entries seems to be an inelegant solution for that. I think this will overall be seen as an improvement by most people, but could easily have a radio button to select, as with the feature to merge movies from different libraries. In this way, everyone could be happy with their own option.
Thanks for reading, please drop a vote here, you can always take it back if you need to use it elsewhere
Actually it doesn’t do what they are asking, what you are seeing is the unread count of episodes. But in your example above if there were two recent episodes in one week, you would see 2 tiles for that show (each with 2) in the upper right corner.
If you are talking about the tiles with the numbers in the corner, this always happens when you add 2 or more episodes of the same show in a row. If you add 2 different weekly shows on Sunday, another on Wednesday, a 2nd episode of one of the Sunday shows on Thursday, and a final weekly show on Friday, each episode will have it’s own tile. Repeat this every week, and the shows that haven’t been updated in a while are lost under the mess. I’d like to still see the other shows, rather than tile after tile for the same thing. This is why I often add a whole season of a show at a time, and often don’t watch them until they are added. With topical, current-events shows, I can’t save them for weeks to watch, or they will be irrelevant. Plus the seasons last all year, I’d be waiting forever. Seems a simple ask and a simple solution to just clear up the clutter.
You didn’t say if you agree or disagree with the suggestion
I had missed this suggestion, hence the late reaction.
Plex’ default behavior is to group items based on how many / which episodes you added during 1 day IIRC:
- adding a single episode → displaying as single episode
- adding multiple episodes or an entire season → displaying as season
- adding episodes from multiple seasons, multiple full seasons or the entire show → displaying as show
There’s already a suggestion to collapse/group all episodes per show in the recently added hub (same goes for grouping them by season). I suggest you comment/vote in that thread in order to avoid distracting votes/attention.
Therefore closing this thread as a duplicate (though it already gained 1 more vote than the original).
2021 clean-up: duplicate
