Plex Downloads Improvements

I suggest adding a template when downloading the series. A template for all seasons of the series with the same templates for the series in Plex.

Would you mind elaborating what you mean by „a template for all seasons“ and what you’re trying to achieve?

If trying to download your need to be in the Correct area.

Example: Season

For a Show

Result for a Season.

Personally I would not do a large show with many seasons at once as it looks pretty good now one Season at a time.

Example:

In the new update to Plex, a change has been made. I want a solution

I want it like this

Okay, if all the seasons are downloaded, the same problem will remain, and the download box will be ugly and there will be no definition of which season you stopped at.

Hi,

I have reported your concerns to the Testing Group which I am a member, hopefully a update soon will resolve.

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Took me a few times reading through this to try and make sure I understood, but just to clarify - this ask is that instead of presenting a full list of everything downloaded to that device individually, the ask here is that when tv shows are downloaded if there are more than 2 from a single tv show that we group them based on the highest available hierarchy? This hierarchy being TV Show, then TV Show Season? And this is only for display in the app interface?

(I say the last because there is a request for the file system storage to include a similar ask with a folder hierarchy)

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I think what they are trying to say is for the devs to bring back some folder structure to downloads..

If I download 50 episodes of three different shows to watch away from civilisation; who wants that ordered in a flat structure of sifting through 150 files..

Quite surprising it was green lit for public use. It’s terrible; making me look at other products now..

Don’t even know why we have to go to the download section in the first place. Can’t it not work so that if you have no connection, in the library only the downloaded objects are listed until you are back online?

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Please don’t suggest mixing Streaming and downloaded content

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Understood and :+1: Can also confirm that this specific feedback has been brought up for review internally.

I will say that we did cover this a bit but in the interests of time didn’t prioritize it. We also focused on the plex-app-only-for-playback use case (only mentioning this because elsewhere people have complained about the file structure area, I guess because they were wanting to play them off disk from another player, so we never really did much with the on-disk file storage)

This one is fairly easy - we don’t cache any metadata on the device. Therefore if you are totally offline we don’t have any way to know what to put there, have any posters or data, etc. So the workflow was always designed to encourage going to the downloads section to access and initiate playback.

This won’t happen. First we don’t allow downloading of streaming/VOD content. Second, if you are fully offline then no streaming/VOD content will be available. Third, we have always recognized that personal media users are generally not as interested in this content and therefore never mingled it in personal media-specific areas of the app.

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