Damn. Forgot about this annoying bug, Without thinking, I added a couple of seasons of newly ripped DVD sets, and didn’t bother to add a few, wait a few days, add, a few, wait a few days, etc. Now I’m down to a couple of posters on recently Added Television
Plex, please fix this.
I feel like this will never be fixed.
The work-around provided here for how to see more TV shows is almost worthless:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1165340/#Comment_1165340
@“MovieFan.Plex” said:
The new Web UI will only lists the shows for the first 50 episodes, so if you just added a show with 40 new episodes and the next show has 10 or more new episodes, only these 2 shows will be listed. If you add 50 new episodes from 50 different shows, all 50 will appear. This limit is only for the Dashboard. If you go into the library and set the filter or sort order, all episodes and all shows will be listed.
I have three TV libraries. Recently added combines all of the libraries into one category on the home page, If I have added the magical “50” episodes to Kids TV shows, nothing else shows up. But just yesterday I added 3 new episodes in the Adult TV series library, and two in the Classic TV library.
I know there are more new TV shows, because it’s my server. But do we honestly expect the people we share with to go to each TV library, filter and sort, just to check? Really?
Not user friendly, not easily discoverable.
Yes, I know I can also use the “Discover” option at the top of the web page and other clients and select a library, rather than the default “All Libraries” That’s still not an easy, intuitive and obvious method to find new media. New additions should just be there on the home page in Plex Web and the other clients, not an exploratory procedure.
How is this still not fixed?
I agree with all the other posts here that the Recently Added section should contain poster from 50 different shows, not just the 50 most recent episodes of a particular show. I often add whole seasons or, multiple seasons of a new show at a single time. It wipes out other recent episodes and confuses all the client users of my Plex library. Even after explaining to my wife and family members what happened many times, they still forget until the next time and complain about not seeing the particular new episode of the show they want in the Recently Added section.
I know this is a really crappy workaround for this issue, but it has been working for me. I add whole series at once, and without fail, I will only have one poster showing in Recently Added at any particular time. I may add 5 or 6 shows in one day, but people coming to my server only know about 1.
So, for my workaround… this takes a major amount of work. For each new show I am adding, as well as previously added shows I want to be in Recently added, I take the last episode in each show and move them out of the library completely (to a folder outside my Plex library). Then I click the Update Library button. Once it is done, it will usually show one new TV Show. Once that is complete, then I move each of the individual shows that I moved earlier back into their respective folders and update again. Now I get a poster for each of these new TV shows.
It’s dumb, but it works.
I have done this as well however they should just fix the issue.
Oh, and just to add, this isn’t the ideal way to solve this issue… It shows which new shows I’ve added, but when clicking on it, it takes them directly to that episode instead of to the show.
The idea is just to list what new shows I have added to the landing page. Otherwise, people have to look through ALL the shows to figure out which ones are new.
@Mordanthanus said:
Oh, and just to add, this isn’t the ideal way to solve this issue… It shows which new shows I’ve added, but when clicking on it, it takes them directly to that episode instead of to the show.The idea is just to list what new shows I have added to the landing page. Otherwise, people have to look through ALL the shows to figure out which ones are new.
Yes. Dysfunctional and needs to be fixed. That being said you can filter all shows to recently added. Of course most non-technically-inclined folks probably won’t ever use filtering.
The logic Plex has developed for Recently Added TV completely escapes me. It looks like the method here is some sort of combination of “On Deck” and “Recently Added” that fails miserably.
Below is a screen shot from my brother-in-law’s server. He doesn’t use any of the work-arounds suggested here, so sometimes there’s one poster, sometimes there’s quite a few, but usually only three or four posters.
As you can see, there are eight posters, but really only five individual shows. The posters are a mix and match of season posters or show posters.
What logic says:
The choice for the poster, and the grouping of episodes, makes absolutely no sense. As a user, all I really want to know is what is new. What I see, is a minimal selection with duplicates. Worse, when the dreaded 50 new episodes number is reached, shows added only a day or two ago vanish completely.
Here’s a mock-up that begins to make some sort of sense, at least to me.
It seems to me, the best solution is to get rid of the “episode” limit and use “Shows” or “Seasons” as the determining factor.
I can use “On Deck” to get me to the next unwatched episode of a series. I can go to the Library and sort by “Recently Added” or “Recently Aired” if need to. But I can’t see what has been “Recently Added” in a consistent manner by just firing up Plex. Please take some time to re-evaluate the current method.
Just noticed a server update for Plex Pass - Plex Media Server 1.4.1
(Hubs) Adding many episodes from a single show could swamp Recently Added hubs. (#5687)
Maybe this is a fix for the problem? Don’t usually install updates right away, till I see the new glitches reported, but maybe I will give it a try. :-S
EDIT: reporting with caution, it looks like “Recently Added TV” looks better now. But since I have been using one or two of the workarounds to keep that section somewhat populated, it’s hard to say for certain. Guess I will know better when those who share with me upgrade their server, or if I take a chance and add a bunch of NCIS episodes I’ve been holding back on…
@leelynds said:
Just noticed a server update for Plex Pass - Plex Media Server 1.4.1(Hubs) Adding many episodes from a single show could swamp Recently Added hubs. (#5687)
Maybe this is a fix for the problem? Don’t usually install updates right away, till I see the new glitches reported, but maybe I will give it a try. :-S
EDIT: reporting with caution, it looks like “Recently Added TV” looks better now. But since I have been using one or two of the workarounds to keep that section somewhat populated, it’s hard to say for certain. Guess I will know better when those who share with me upgrade their server, or if I take a chance and add a bunch of NCIS episodes I’ve been holding back on…
Went from 3 shows to 6+ for me so yeah I’d say they fixed it.
I just added 2 TV shows with 90 episodes in each TV series the Recently added section appears to functioning normally now.
I am a happy camper now!
Yes, finally seems to work the way we would expect 
Disappointed it took so long (10 months since I first posted the request) but people like us that add multiple episodes at one time are probably in the minority, so a lower priority. I did originally notice the annoyance way back on March 07, 2015 and posted in the Plex Roku Forums so it’s been close to two years I have been using some sort of work-around.
Of course, I’ll be an even happier camper if they do a bit more work and show the season poster for those times we add a single episode rather than the default series or show poster. Some people are never satisfied…
Im facing the same issue with recently added television. Two shows show up oone with 4 episode and another poster with just 1 episode. is there a fix for this?
I agree with everyone as well. This is a problem. One that pisses me off on a daily basis because I add media on a daily basis. I use batch encoding to reduce the file sizes of my recorded broadcast shows at the end of a season or when I need to free up space in my recording directory. When I add them as a batch I lose the other individual shows that may have added only one episode of a current season which may have been added less then 24 hours before.
I don’t know who all is married, but when my wife can’t access the newest episode of some crappy show she is currently wrapped up in because I added a few seasons of something I want, she is very unhappy. Tells me all the time to stop adding stuff. I try to explain that if I did not add anything she would have nothing new to watch. So it’s catch 22 and Plex is giving my wife the gun!
Please, Please, Please, Please, fix this issue or let us control the variables.
2021 clean-up: duplicate(s)
