Recently Added "Movies" & "TV" - Changing these to category Title

Hi,

I have a few Categories on my setup which breaks down my TV and Movie viewing in sub sections.

I may record a show and save it under Kids TV for example or Record a show and save it under Reality TV.

On the home screen it shows “Recently Added” on all of these Categories which is great, but each section of recently added says the same thing. So for example I have 4 instances of “Recently Added TV”.

Would it be possible to have the option to use my category names as the headings in “Recently Added XXXXX” ?

So it would display the current “Recently Added TV” as “Recently Added Kids TV” or “Recently Added Reality TV” which my Categories are labled.

Thanks

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Not much help but just letting you know;
I have 5 Movie libraries and 2 TV Show libraries that are set to show Recently Added on the home screen. All movies show together and all TV Shows are together.
I’ve never seen individual Recently Added sections as you describe.

Could be a new Plex Web feature as im seeing them all now along with “ti’s the season”

Can you show a screenshot so we’re sure we are talking about the same thing?

It seems like it’s a recent change in behavior.

If your home screen is set to be Automatically managed, Recently Added items are being grouped by Library.

If your home screen is set to be Manually managed, Recently Added items are grouped by type (Movies, TV, etc.) with multiple libraries combined into one row.

That would explain it. I manually manage mine.

I just tried Automatic. Plex added the On Plex stuff but my TV Shows and Movies still stayed grouped noy by library.

Server Version 1.21.1.3795, updated yesterday I believe.

Update:
I see the behaviour now on my Shield client.
I switched it to Manually controlled and removed the extra TV Shows and Movies recently added groups.

And it’s more annoying because if you go to remove specific libraries from your homepage all the movie ones only say move instead of what we have titles them, so it’s basically a guessing game. I do really hope that address this. It’s quite annoying on various devices now using this setup.

On Roku it shows the Movie library name. I don’t know why they can’t get that everywhere.

I just checked and I have on my Home page, 32 lines of Recently Added Movies, instead of showing the exact title. If I click on the left side on any category in my list, then the title shows. I find that really odd that you can see it there, but not when Plex first loads the home page or any time you go back to it. Please address this issue.

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