I have multiple “fan edits” of various Star Wars films, however despite them having different filenames / separate paths, and having been “split” in Plex with individual titles / artworks etc. they all share the same progress bar, sort of.
I.e. If I watch 10mins of the Despecialised Star Wars fan edit, then all of my versions of Star Wars will have progressed 10mins through the runtime, even though they may have different runtimes.
Are other people having this issue? Has it been reported before? If so, is there a way to fix it?
That is because both items have the same GUID ( what watch status is based on ) and there fore are still considered the same film. If you watch a movie delete it then later on add same movie it will still be considered watched
It has been always this way. Plex has never had any way to really distinguish different “versions” of a film ( director cuts, etc ).
The only thing you can do is use a different primary agent. so one is recognized by the Plex Movie agent and the other by TheMovieDB but that still only gives you two things.
I split Logan apart did a fix incorrect match on one and used TheMovieDB instead. Then named that one Logan Noir
if you look at XML for a film the GUID looks like this
Logan guid="com.plexapp.agents.imdb://tt3315342?lang=en"
Logan Noir guid="com.plexapp.agents.themoviedb://263115?lang=en"
and I have separate watch statuses. but this method only give you two versions.
Thanks, that makes total sense.
Sorry to bump this old thread as the first thing I do here, but reading a boilerplate “it’s always been this way” answer for a legitimate issue rubs me the wrong way. It’s nice to have the work-around with the agent to add one extra version, but that’s the very definition of a hack.
We recognize that there are often different versions of a movie, right? Director’s Cut, Special Edition, Remaster, the list goes on. Since there don’t seem to be different IDs for them, would it not be logical to distinguish them in some way? For example, multiple occurences of the same ID could be kept apart by using the file name as a secondary attribute for identification.
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this seems to go against the entire functionality of ‘splitting’ a movie into separate instances.
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that depends on the type of person you are. For me if i saw Mad Max Fury Road, then i saw it. I know the story. Them making a special edition in black and chrome or with a 2 minutes more of a deleted scene, or whatever does not mean it is different story to me. If i saw one, I saw them all, as far as a I am concerned.
But to each their own. I don’t think the way you think about it is wrong, just different than what i expect. At the time this was done, long before I ever worked here, it was probably just easier to deal with. I’m sure there probably could be a way to do what you want, but that is what the feature suggestion category of forums is for.
What about something like the Lord Of The Rings Extended Editions? Those add 30-50min for each one. Watchmen has three very distinct versions that range from 2.5 hours to 3.5 hours. Das Boot varies just as much. Any of these would result in wildly inaccurate timestamps being saved. I get your hint about the feature request forum, and it’s not a super critical issue. It just seems weird to see such explicit apathy for something I don’t feel is even a matter of opinion. Thanks for taking part in the discussion, though! 
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To me 30 minutes of filler means nothing. The ring still falls in the lava at the end. 
It is not apathy and it is matter of opinion, since we have differing ones. There are some other features that folks like very much that I think are horrible and vice versa, that doesn’t mean I think you or anyone is wrong, we just have differing view points.
I have nothing against what y’all want to do, just saying it is not a “bug” as the title of this topic suggests. It is just a different way of thinking about it. And altering how it works I am told is not as simple as it may seem since it affects a bunch of stuff.
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