My question is, would it be possible to set up some sort of “watch pool” that consists of a selection of shows? Clicking it would queue up one (uwatched) episode from each show, sort of acting like a custom programming block.
Answer:
I brought this question up for discussion internally and there was some fun discussion around it.First - we don’t have a current solution that feels like it fits the question here 100%. There was mention of using smart playlists to do something similar, here is one suggestion:
I’ve used smart playlists for something like this before, useful for shows that have a decent amount of cross over, like Chicago Fire/PD/Med, sorted by air date it’ll just play what’s next, but sometimes you can get blocks of the same thing in a row with different break schedules, it’s also not random.
The fun discussions came around where the topic of plot order came up. Does plot order here matter? Looks like some people will care and others might not (if our internal discussions are any indication). The ideas then started going down rabbit holes that included using cron jobs to update playlists and shuffling and an external process using the PMS API. So the final answer here is that we do not support this use case today, but it could likely be done with the API. Thanks for the question.
