Each episode of a show, as added, shows up individually in the “recently added TV”.
It would be GREAT to have an option to just display the SHOW as “recently added” whenever an episode is added instead of an entry for each episode added.
Plex is already handling this dynamically.
- If you add a single episode, this episode will be displayed as recently added.
- If you add multiple episodes or an entire season, the season will be displayed as recently added.
- If you add episodes of multiple seasons or multiple seasons, the show will be displayed as recently added
From what I’ve been reading, this will be updated if you add more content of the same show within a short period of time.
PS: not discrediting your suggestion… just throwing this piece of information in the arena 
Thanks I know… but what you say is true only if all of those additions are done before a rescan of the DB. i.e. if I rescan once a day and over that day add five episodes, then it will show up only once.
What I’m suggesting is that there be an option to display each show only once in the “recently added” list regardless of when the rescan was done. So that if over two weeks I add three episodes, then they show up only once as the-show has been recently added (with the number as normal in the corner).
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It should be combining them into season or show entry if the episodes are scanned in within 20 hours regardless of how many scans are done in that 20 hours.
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I’ll second this. I want the option to NEVER show an individual episode in recently added for TV. Some times is takes me a number of days to process and add episodes of an entire season (or multiple seasons) of a given show. Sometimes I’m working on multiple shows at the same time. In the end, the recently added section is just a huge cluttered mess of individual episodes from different shows. Completely worthless the way it does it right now.
Example:
As you can see, For the show Tirdy Works (don’t ask!) I have 2 individual episodes, and then the show itself with a #10 in the corner. Stargirl is just a mess of episodes. Top Cat is exactly what I’d like to see. The only reason that is correct is because they were all added at once. That can’t always be done, especially with currently airing episodes which will always be added one at a time as they air.
It would be nice to just list the actual show, with the number of new episodes in the corner of the cover art, NEVER an individual episode.
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BigWheel - that’s fine, but many many tv show episodes don’t happen within 20 hours – lots of weekly shows.
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It would be nice to just list the actual show, with the number of new episodes in the corner of the cover art, NEVER an individual episode.
That’s what I want too, but am asking that it at least be an option (if many people don’t want this).
Another way to do this is to allow us to set that “20 hour” range that BigWheel noted above. e.g. allow 240 hours or 24000 hours even, instead of just 20 hours. That would make it a “value setting”.
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Yeah, I did include the word option in my original post. I realize that the way we’d like ours setup could certainly differ from what others might want. I’m not against the way they have it now if that’s the way other like it, but I’d like to see that ability to tweak those settings just a bit.
For me, and the way I add my content, it just makes a mess. I suppose that if I were to actually watch the episode(s) in a timely manor it might not be that big of a deal, but life is busy and I just don’t have the time to do that.
I’m hoping this will garner some more votes, we can’t be the only ones that want this… Can we? 
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Sorry for posting in General Discussions as I found this feature request only after posting, so I’ll add my 2 cents.
I follow a daily show that I add to Plex in a series library. I also add other shows to the same library but very less frequently. The way Plex adds them to “Recently added” is one tile per show if they are added more than 20 hours apart. Since this daily runs at the same time everyday, then they get added to single tiles in Recently added and pushing all other series off the visible screen giving this result:
So I removed the episodes, scanned the Library and emptied thrash. Then re-added the episodes and scanning again with only the last four episodes as unplayed all under the same tile leaving space for other previously added shows to be seen on screen giving this result:
So now, asking the powers at be, is it possible to make Plex add an episode to the same series tile and push it in front as last added with an added tag of unplayed episodes?
Or make it an option for those that do want it.
Thanks for reading,
If anyone thinks it’s something they want please like and upvote!
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And leaving out daily’s that play at the same time everyday so at least 24 hours before getting added and making a mess in recently added.
Take a look at my pictures above.
So what makes good sense that the same 5 poster tiles is seen in recently added instead of one poster tile with unplayed count?
Seems like this feature request has been forgotten, but the problem continues to be a pain in the butt. Not grouping episodes makes the Plex homepage messy and quite unusable, at least for Recently Added TV Shows. @FeMaster’s & @Micma99’s posts display the problem clearly.
Please Plex, do something about this… It can’t be too difficult! You’re already doing it for episodes added within 20 hours. You could just add an option to do that for ALL added episodes…?
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75% of the 56 posters in my recently added are a duplicate or triplicate
Items I would actually like to see are now pushed off the back of the line into the abyss. But at least I have room to look at the same poster 3 times
Does your wife have one of these for her makeup?
Do you have one of these in your office?
How about one of these in your garage?
These items are referred to as ORGANIZERS
Organizers do what?
- They put items of the same kind in the same enclosed space
- Aesthetically this looks nice
- Functionally, finding what you’re looking for is faster and easier
- You can fit more items in a given space to have room for other items you may need
This is a screen shot of my recently added row
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Those at PLEX surely seem to have forgotten. I have not forgotten, as I’m sure many other users have not either. I stare at the mess on an almost daily basis.
Thank you bringing new light and fresh eyes onto this very annoying, and completely solvable, problem!
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I’ve not long since come back to Plex and found this annoying too, but I just made a smart collection that I then used to replace the default ‘Recently Added in TV’ rows. Works a treat.
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As I am a Plex Pass and INFUSE premium member, just wanted to point out that the later just introduced Grouping as the new standard.
Maybe this moves Plex product management to rethink their strategy?
Exactly I love the idea that it goes oh we already have an episode of this lets just stack them together into the season rather than a massive list otherwise you have to keep removing and adding episodes to keep things clean and tidy. Or what about a drag and drop to stack the episodes together.
+1 vote from me on this.
Long time annoyance of mine.
Most people have “Continue Watching” enabled (not even sure if you can disable it) and that should show the next episode for each user.
Those users not watching the series likely have no interest in the fact that a new episode has been added. Those users who are watching, but don’t watch every episode as soon as it was added have to scroll back to find their last unwatched episode… Or click on the last episode added, and realize they should have just used continue watching instead.
Combining the episodes into one just makes sense to me.
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I believe this can all be handled by changing the added/uploaded timestamp for each episode of the series to a current timestamp. This should stack them. I know there are ways to manually edit these timestamps to allow you control to manage the recently added items, unfortunately I have yet to spend the time to figure it out. I’ve spent time researching it, but never grasped all of the steps to accomplish it. If anyone has (or can point to) a guide for doing this it would be much appreciated.
m51
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If i add a whole season at ones it is already working great, but if i add an episode ones a week it displays all episodes seperately even if no other shows are added between these episodes. I dont know if that is a bug or intended that way, but i like things more cleaner so bundled per season.
Also an option to delete something from recently added would be great so i can clean up myself.
Now i cut and paste the season when it is complete to clean up, but i think watched status of clients will be lost that way.
Also clients that watch the show will allready see when a new episode is available in the currently watching tab right? So no need to add each episode seperate in recently added
