I think it would be nice if there was a label on the dashboard labeled “Coming Soon” to signify upcoming movies (etc.) that are coming to a specific playlist.
-Create an empty folder for Plex to read and scan.
-If media files are missing within that folder and the folder is empty it can pre-fetch data and putting a place holder under the “Coming Soon” label that users can select to watch trailers and whatnot for whatever media.
-Also it is a nice way to remember what media you are working on to add, and lets users know whats coming (especially if they requested something)
I think he’s more referring to when he’s viewing a movie or a series of movies that has a sequel that is either due for release in theaters and/or dvd/bluray, he’d like Plex to know about it. Interesting idea, but I’m not sure how it’d get implemented. I suppose you could query IMDB or other service for the info somehow.
Let PMS scan an empty “Coming Soon” folder for sub-folders.
If you find an empty sub-folder called
“Batman and Robin return to Gotham (2018)”, try to match that to a movie or TV show.
If matching works, have it appearing only in a “Coming soon” area on the On Deck screen, for example and try to find trailers for it.
Oh, and just in case somebody tells me that only media files can be matched. Yes. ATM.
This is a feature request.
@OttoKerner
Oh yes, thank you for pointing this out.
Of course, if somebody tries to actually play the fake file, then it fails with or without error.
Plus, the library addition time stamp is wrong. It would be set to something prior to official release date and will probably not Show up in “recently added” when it gets actually added
Therefore, there is some sense in that feature request from my Point of view - even if I won’t use it.
@rossinior said:
Of course, if somebody tries to actually play the fake file, then it fails with or without error.
It is in a special library which may be named ‘not playable’
Plus, the library addition time stamp is wrong. It would be set to something prior to official release date and will probably not Show up in “recently added” when it gets actually added
See above. Since it is in a separate library, adding the ‘real’ file into your ‘real’ movie library will make it show up as a new addition.
@rossinior said:
Of course, if somebody tries to actually play the fake file, then it fails with or without error.
It is in a special library which may be named ‘not playable’
Plus, the library addition time stamp is wrong. It would be set to something prior to official release date and will probably not Show up in “recently added” when it gets actually added
See above. Since it is in a separate library, adding the ‘real’ file into your ‘real’ movie library will make it show up as a new addition.
Really? Whenever I move my movies from one library to another, my last viewed Status et al stay the same…
Not sure about the “Addition time stamp” though… I had in my mind, that it does not change…
Definitely a work-around. Thank you again for pointing it out.
Just checked a file that I replaced with another version in 2017.
The XML “addedAt” unix time stamp is still from 2016.
I haven’t moved this one from one library to another though
