Okay, All the new seasons of shows are back on. Every week, I record the new shows and add them to my server. One problem is that every week, I have to remove the show from my server, scan the server with the show removed so the listing is gone. Then I have to put the show back in to the server rescan the server or I get multiple listings of the show I just added under “Recently added TV” I have looked through my settings “ Merge Recently Added items
Recently Added items from the same media type will be combined together on Home for libraries Recommended to Home. Only content from libraries pinned to the app sidebar will appear in Merged Recently Added recommendations.” I have this checked but this doesn’t seem to work.
I want to keep my Library clean, The above picture is what happens. What I would like is when I add an episode of the show , it simply updates the show and moves it to the front of the Recently added removing the old listing. Is there a way to do this without having to go through the long drawn out process that I have been doing?
Sort by the last date an episode was added to the show (newest first).
Only show shows that have had episodes added in the last 2 weeks. (Obviously adjust to suit your needs.)
Once you’re satisfied with the results, save it as a smart collection. You can then make it visible on your Home Screen.
The Plex recently added hubs will only aggregate episodes by show (or season) if they’re added relatively quickly together. For example, if you add an episode of a show and then add another a week later, they’ll show as individual episodes. However, if you add multiple at the same time (or within a day or two or so), it will aggregate them into a season. Depending on the timing it may be aggregated to just the show.
Here’s an example of how the above-described smart collection looks when published to the Home Screen:
Okay, I appreciate that, I have kind of figured that out, I’ll have to play with it a bit and see if I can get it to put new listings first. However, I have 2 listings on my home screen for TV, how do I get rid of the original (One on top) or can I update that one somehow and get rid of the new one.
If you click the sort order again and select Last Episode Date Added again, it will reverse the sort. That should correct the ordering. You can do this by going to the collection and editing its filters.
That’s what the “managing recommendations” link I provided above shows how to do. If you go to Settings → [Server Name] → Manage → Libraries you’ll see your libraries listed. Hover over the one of interest and click “Manage Recommendations.” You can then choose what to show on your home, library, and friends’ home. De-select the original “Recently Added TV” and then you’ll only see your custom one.
I really appreciate you . I finally got it to work, my “cartoons” category falls under plex brain as a separate “TV” settings. So I have to change both of those to the same settings or it doesn’t work. Now I have to figure out why Hells Kitchen is not falling under my new Smart setting. It should fall into the filters I’ve set but something is not right.
Try changing the “Date Show Added” filter to “Date Episode Added” as I show above in my example.
That tells Plex to show the series if there was an episode added to it in the last X amount of time.
As you have it set up now, Plex won’t show it because the series was added over 4 weeks ago. You need to trigger on the date the last episode was added to the show.
I give up! After I made the initial changes and got it to remove the “Recently Added TV” list as soon as I rescan the library it pops back up. If I reorder the menu, it pops back up. This is more hassle than its worth. I’ll just keep doing what I had been doing and if plex has to rescan and add 23 seasons of metadata on something like NCIS , then it’ll just have to do that. I hope it doesn’t cost Plex more for something like that instead of just changing a simple setting!
FYI, the “Merge Recently Added Items” setting is for merging the “Recently added” category across all libraries of that type. So if you have two or more TV Show libraries (I have 6: Live, Cartoon, Anime, News, Late Night, Reality), rather than show a “Recently Added in Live” and a “Recently added in Cartoon” and “Recently added in Anime” and… (etc etc), it makes a single “Recently Added in TV” category and combines from all libraries at once.
This could potentially be interfering with your effort to make a smart entry, popping it up again despite disabling it. If you do not care to have (looking at your screenshots) all “Cartoons” and all “TV Shows” combining into one “Recently Added TV”, disable this option, and give the filter another try.
I do not believe that smart filters like this published to the home page can combine Multiple Libraries like this.
Can you share a screenshot of what your “Manage Recommendations” settings look like for the library in question? I’ve not ever experienced what you describe. If you de-select the recently added section (and the merge option) it should no longer be shown. Even across scans.
Do you have multiple TV show libraries, by chance? If so, you’ll need to create custom smart collections for each and disable the native recently added hub for each.
I really appreciate your help, I was getting flustered with this. I unchecked that box and that fixed the listing problem with the 2 Recently added Tv menus. I also changed the smart filter setting a bit and got it to recognize Hells Kitchen and a few others that will drop off after a week or so. I’m good with computers but sometimes I feel Plex is for Hackers or software developers which I am not.
Good deal, happy to help. Smart collections are super-powerful once you get used to them. I use them for a bunch of stuff including generating lists of random, unwatched stuff I might be interested in.
I’d recommend playing around with them to see what you can come up with.
That box was checked causing conflicts with “Cartoons and TV” because they are both “TV “ when the box is selected. So its now unchecked and the 2 categories are separate now
