# Skipping intro

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/skipping-intro/443758>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [August 9, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skipping-intro/443758 "2019-08-09T16:02:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![aarontymo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@aarontymo](https://forums.plex.tv/u/aarontymo)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skipping-intro/443758/1 "2019-08-09T16:02:33Z")

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Netflix has a “skip intro” button for most of its tv shows. It would be cool if we could set an intro length on a per-season basis for our tv shows, then have something (either automatic or button-based like Netflix) to skip forward to the time set for that season.

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skipping-intro/443758/2 "2019-08-09T16:41:33Z")

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A request for the same feature exists already, and it has more votes.

> [@\[Implemented\] TV Series intro/outro time span definition and auto-skip](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-series-intro-outro-time-span-definition-and-auto-skip/106802):
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> When watching a collection of TV episodes, it would be quite useful to identify the start and end of the intro (opening credits) and outro (ending credits) to support auto-skipping these as a feature during large episode viewing. &nbsp;This would most likely need to be defined per-series with customization per-episode as I have observed exceptions in both cases. &nbsp; As an example, watching a television show and all of season 04 episodes display the opening credits between 01:20 and 02:35 with a fade-…

Therefore this one is closed.  
Votes are given back to the users who voted on this request. Please think of re-voting in the other thread if you still want it.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/skipping-intro/443758/3 "2019-08-09T16:41:40Z")

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