Given that plex displays what episodes I’ve watched within the playlist, I would think this should be a straight forward implementation. Devs?
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Agree with this but I would rephrase the feature. Any media should resume from whence it was commenced. If that media was started in a playlist then great, when I resume it should resume playback as if from the playlist. If I start watching that media outside the playlist and come back, then it should resume from outside the playlist.
I only mention this because I don’t want to see “resume playlist?” if this feature is implemented, I just want to see “resume X” and it just resumes seamlessly without my having to think at all.
It seems like a Playlist isn’t really a first class citizen within the playback ecosystem but instead a container of playable things. This makes naive sense, but without seeing the implementation within Plex it’s hard to say concretely what would be nice to change. That being said, others have already identified the “killer features” for playlists. I’d like to emphasize that playlists honoring (or having a separate setting per another thread) the queue autoplay setting would be awesome. I, like many others it seems, would like to fall asleep to a show from a playlist. And instead of waking up some 10+ episodes later the post-play screen could require interaction within the same rules as the play queue. Or there could be a separate setting. Or it could be a setting of the playlist. Whatever makes sense to people that have the context. I assume this is particularly pernicious for some reason or it would have been implemented… not sure if such things are detailed in these forums though, as I’m a fairly new Plex user.
As I was playing with this a little more, the Windows client does seem to honor the autoplay setting for playlists. The Android client (at least version 9.7.0.34811) does not. Transitioning between devices while playing a playlist is also a really low quality experience. I seem to have to resume from the playlist manually.
How we going on this? Being able to resume a playlist from an episode… or a long running series … or something like the MCU would be a grand feature to have in Plex. And then the ability to have the play list on deck… so depending on how you feel you could resume that MCU marathon… Or watch Chicago Med,PD, Fire in the order… the possibilities are endless! This would same so much time for users having to have their favourite tracker open on their phone (Trakt) just to know what’s next to watch. Please for all the couch marathon runners out there. Add this request! <3
no news still? Relevant with also no news here: Playlist sorting and searching feature request - #84 by shackrock
Would love to have this feature.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what it means 
Added my vote to this thread as well!
For whatever it’s worth, I’d love to see this feature implemented, especially since the “make a smart playlist” feature is absolutely useless for what I want to accomplish.
In case it matters, I have a playlist for watching every Star Trek show and movie in chronological/Stardate order. There is no way to make a smart list that can accommodate this since I’m working with movies and multiple tv shows that were not always airing simultaneously. Even then, the air date order doesn’t correspond to when the series chronology, so there is no other way to built this playlist except by manually adding each episode/film in the order it belongs. As such, I’ve got a playlist with over 500 entries, so it becomes rather tedious to have to scroll all the way down to where I left off.
This would be a fantastic feature to implement!
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+1 for this. Manually creating playlists has helped organize my watching, but having to scroll 100+ entries down to find the last watched episode is a pain. Even adding a filter or a “jump to last watched/first new” button would be sufficient.
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Almost 9 years later - Nov 2023 - and can’t believe this SIMPLE feature has not been implemented. At the very least, have a marker in the playlist of how far (video number and time stamp in that video) the person has watched. As others have mentioned the different Plex clients also give a different experience - which is VERY low quality user experience. (none of them allow continuing a playlist.
If you want to get fancy, this is how I would implement it. Either present three different options at the top of the playlist and/or have a default behaviour in settings and/or show the 2 different options when user presses play on the top of the playlist:
(1) start from beginning of playlist (which is what the Plex is doing each time now! very annoying)
(2) start from last played - if user had randomly played videos 1,3,5 (10 seconds in),1,2 (30 seconds in), then the playlist will start from video 2’s 30 second mark
(3) start from furthest played (in the above example start from video 5, 10 second mark)
I can understand the complexity of implementing (2) above - so at the very least offer option (3) - there is IMMENSE benefit to users and, as a computer engineer myself, VERY EASY to implement.
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+1 i struggle with a chronological playlist i made and cant watch it where i left, always have to look up manually where i have to contuine…
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Please add this. It’s so important and much easier than creating a seperate library with symlinks (and all the joy that brings with it 
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Just adding to the “Continue watching” section would be huge… and there is no reason not to that i can think of.
- 9 and a half years later… still not here.
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I’m checking back in on this thread, and I’m sad there’s been no updates or acknowledgements of any kind. I don’t know a lot about coding, but I can’t imagine that it would be a nightmare to add a “continue watching” flag to any given playlist.
Even if it can’t be implemented, I’d at least like someone to explain why so that I can put it out of my mind at least.
Why has this taken 10 years for nothing to happen?
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Could someone explain why this hasn’t been implemented yet?
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I’ve noticed when I watch a playlist on my mobile phone or web interface on my computer, the progress is not synced between my devices, so I can never pick up where I left and this makes using plex very inconvenient with multiple devices.
Can playlist progress be synced across devices immediately like Netflix does?
maybe have a watching now feature that actually is based on the progress across devices
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This would be amazing. I do most of my listening on my phone but it would be great if when I use my desktop from time to time.
