[Possible Bug] Issue with pausing an episode of a series during continuous episode playback

I originally posted this in the public Android TV forum, thought I would repost here and possibly some clarification/fresh eyes. This is happening in both public release and beta release, so I am not sure if its a bug, oversight, or intended design.

So in a recent update we got continuous playback support for the Android TV app. Start at episode 1, a temporary playlist is created, when episode 1 is over, episode 2 will auto start after 10 seconds. It works great.

The problem I have run into is pausing an episode after the initial episode. Lets say I am binge watching a series. I start at episode 1. I get to episode 5. I pause episode 5 a few minutes in. After some time, playback is automatically stopped and a screen saver (daydream) comes up. When I return to the shield and interrupt the screen saver and am brought back to the Plex client, I am not brought back to the detail screen for episode 5. Instead, the detail screen for episode 1 is there (the episode I started the playback session from). If I want to resume episode 5, I have to back out, return to the home screen and resume from the continue watching row.

My expectation would be that when I interrupt the screen saver and come back to Plex to resume episode 5, I am brought to the detail screen for episode 5 (the episode I paused), not episode 1 (the episode I started the binge watching session from).

To add on to this, if I am on episode 5 of continuous playback after starting at episode 1 and I decide to back out of the playback by hitting the play button, I would expect that I would be returned to the detail page of the current episode, episode 5. As it stands, I am brought back to the first episode of the continuous playback session, episode 1.

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I posted about a similar issue ( probably the same bug) a bit ago.

It is defiantly a bug.

I have been informed that this is being looked into by the devs.

Any update on this?

@“MovieFan.Plex” @antoniolg @sixones @jesusMC

Kinda puts a damper on taking a bathroom break during a binging session.

@Andrroid Hey, sorry for the delay!

Yeah, that issue should be fixed as part of 5.6.0. Could you check that it works correctly for you?

Thanks in advance!

@jesusMC said:
@Andrroid Hey, sorry for the delay!

Yeah, that issue should be fixed as part of 5.6.0. Could you check that it works correctly for you?

Thanks in advance!

No, this issue is still present.

I just watched 3 episodes of a show. During the 4th episode, I paused it. I waited. Eventually, the Android TV screensaver appeared. I then pressed a button on my remote, which ended the screen saver and returned me to Plex. However, I was placed at the details screen for the first episode I watched, not the current, 4th episode, I was watching.

Are you sure this is the big you fixed? It’s fairly easy to reproduce.

@Andrroid yeah I misunderstood the root cause of this issue (sorry!) and when I said it was already fixed I meant that for a similar issue so sorry again about that.

@jesusMC said:
@Andrroid yeah I misunderstood the root cause of this issue (sorry!) and when I said it was already fixed I meant that for a similar issue so sorry again about that.

No problem, thanks for following up! Are you able to reproduce this issue?