At one point I decided I wanted to have a separate library for children’s television as well as one for children’s movies, however I wanted them to show up in my main television and movie libraries as well, so I moved all of the children’s content into their respective new folders, created new libraries for children’s tv and children’s movies, and then I added those new folders to my main television and movie libraries. The children’s television shows that show up in Continue Watching show up twice (but the movies do not). Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might work around this? I did a few searches in the forums but didn’t find much in the way of what I was looking for, although with different search terms it’s possible I might find something different.
If you have something that shows up in 2 libraries, then they will show up twice on the homepage.
I’m not sure exactly what you’ve done, but you’ll want to separate these out to their own libraries. If you are trying to have 1 library for everything, and a second library for only kids stuff, you will run into this issue.
I can understand why it’s happening (except it doesn’t happen with my movies, which are setup the same way) mostly just curious if anyone has done anything similar with more success.
Check the kids movie library settings. See if “include is dashboard” is turned off. This will prevent the duplicates, but then it’s only reading the status from your main library. The information will be the same but if you click on it to view it’s info, you are actually entering the main library and then you could back out to that library and see everything. You can do the same for the TV show library if you want.
I, too, am in this boat. Separate libraries for sharing 1080p movies with friends causes duplicates in the Continue Watching section from my 4K library. I tried following the recommendation here (Continue watching bug? - Duplicate playback of same movies but different versions) to no avail. I’ve been seeing from Plex Ninjas and moderators that this is a “feature not a bug” and that Plex sees the files as the “same”. What is it that Plex is reading that dictates the files are the same? Anything other than face value information (title, actors, description) would reveal they aren’t the same (resolution, runtime, file size, file location etc.) Plex has to store the playback information somewhere which means that it is accessing the file, would it have not been possible to implement a way to distinguish a file off of resolution or size or length as well as metadata to make the system more robust and comprehensive? Before when there was file merging and 4K was not as prevalent, this makes perfect sense but with internet speeds at what they are and the availability of UHD movies, I’m really struggling to keep up with the justifications of not differentiating between two different versions of movies.
No, no. Plex sees the files as being the same Movie. A movie is identified by how it was matched. So if you have the same movie in different libraries and they were matched using the same agent, they will get the same movie identifier. That identifier is what is used for the items in the Home Page.
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