I envision a Plex world where I don’t have to scan through multiple directories every time I add a new movie/tv show to add new content to a playlist and then do the same thing on every account the playlist exists on (separate issue).
Instead, wouldn’t it be nice if you could have dynamic playlists that allow you to set filters that simply define what the playlist is? The big draw for me is in large general playlists like genres (comedy, fantasy, sci-fi, etc) but there’s quite a lot you can do with the existing filtering system.
To simulate a sort of TV-like experience I made a playlist with every tv show/movie and I can shuffle play it to just get random stuff to play. Trouble is, I have to go and re-add everything every time new content is added or specifically scan for that new content which is basically the same amount of effort.
Ultimately this is a simple task that would be easy to automate with a server job so us lazy humans can just sit back and enjoy.
Updated:
Smart Playlists account of most of the behavior I’d like so the only remaining tidbit is multi-library support for Smart Playlists.
