Movie info while in playlist

Feature Suggestions
1

I noticed that if you select a movie from a playlist, it immediately starts playing the movie. It’d be nice for it to first pull up the info/synopsis page first. If this isn’t desired behavior by most, at least something you can click/select while on the playlist to get the info on that movie before choosing/playing it.

I have a playlist of movies I specifically want to watch. While others were browsing my playlist to choose something to watch next, they had no way to know what the movie was about before selecting.

2

I second this request:

Server Version#:
Player Version#: 7.30.0

When looking at a playlist on Plex on my SHIELD TV, there is no way to view the info for an item in the list. I’ve tried a single tap select (plays the item), long tap select (does nothing), info button (does nothing) and selecting the overflow (…) menu (no info option there).

This is an extremely basic and necessary function that was present in all other clients I’ve used (e.g. Roku, Echo, Windows, web). Why is it not present on Android TV?

3

Is there any update on this please? This is basically the only feature lacking in Plex that is preventing me from buying a Plex Pass. I’m currently paying for Emby because this works there.

We can see movie info when navigating through collections - why not playlists? It would be extremely easy to just add ‘view info’ to the overflow menu. Please implement this, I’d love to return to Plex and buy a pass!

4

I second this!
This is such a needed feature with small effort and big rewards.

Either go to the standard “movie view” as you would from the library but if that is not possible at least add the option in the “three dots” menu on the right.

Please :slight_smile:

5

100%

On the web app (and others) you can view a film/show’s details from the playlist view (by clicking on the title).

However, on the Android TV app, you can only play the film/show, and you can’t view the details directly.

I would like to be able to view the details directly from the playlist view.

Thanks!

6

Should the Android TV tag be added to this thread?

Or does this issue also affect other clients?

7

@BigWheel could we get your assistance on this one?

Does this align with the priorities atm? Or it’s not the direction Plex is looking to head for TV clients?

8

I’m not really sure what you are asking. I’m sorry we don’t generally give yes or no’s to a particular request unless we are already working on it or so far out of scope we won’t. Everything else is a maybe

9

Ahh ok, apologies!

Thanks

10

On the Plex app for iOS, if you open a video playlist and select a video, it automatically starts the video. It would be great if it would first bring up the video details screen as it would if I were navigating my library directly. I often sort videos into playlists, but before playing a particular video, I want to see the description or possibly play the trailer. Instead when I find a movie from a playlist which I am interested in watching, I have to back out of my playlist > find the video in my library > view details.